Category: MobileConnections

As I wait in the airport for my flight to board, I figured I would put together a quick Mobile Connections 2011 ’Top 5 take-a-ways’ post from my perspective. Lots more detail in my previous posts for each session, this is just my ‘mind dump’ without looking back at my individual session notes. My original “big … Continue reading "My Top 5 Mobile Connections 2011 Take-A-Ways"

Speaker: Tim Huckaby  Chairman of InterKnowlogy.com  Uses Awesomium control to embed web content into WPF application for kiosks/etc. Natural User Interface (NUI) =  touching the screen (or manipulating the screen without touching it) Tenants The content should define the experience  The “Grandma Huckaby Test”: the ability to effectively use the kiosk without training No one … Continue reading "My Notes: 3 Screens and the Cloud: How NUI Technologies Play Nice Together"

Speaker: Wei-Meng Lee Wei’s talk was very good, but unfortunately for me, it covered many points that I had already been introduced to in the two other Location based sessions I had attended within the past two days.  Here are the main takeaways I got from the session that were not already covered in the other sessions: TIP: … Continue reading "My Notes: Building Location Aware Android Apps"

Speaker: Doron Grinstein (BiTKOO)   (Involved with development of FastPass at Disney) Cloud computing is not a server with a longer extension cord (co-location of our hardware). Cloud computing definition (in his mind): Ability of 3rd party to store, process, search, compute, without being able to look at my data even with a court order.  Algorithms  should support … Continue reading "My Notes: The New Age of Cloud Computing Eliminating the Need to Write Security Code"

Speaker: Nils Puhlmann, Chief Security officer, Zynga Inc.  Co-founder Cloud Security Alliance Zynga (maker of FarmVille, CityVille, Mofia Wars, etc) adds as many as 1000 servers a week to keep up with growth. “We have to accept what we all know to be elemental – that taking a defensive position can, at best, only limit … Continue reading "My Notes: Securing Innovation | Cloud Connections Keynote"

Speaker: Jinesh Varia   Amazon Web Services (AWS) Technology Evangelist Lines are blurring between SaaS, PaaS, IaaS Lots of new innovative business models.  Pay as you go, One time upfront + pay as you go, Requested bid price and pay as you go, Standard and Reserved.   These work best respectively in the following environments: Spiky workloads, steady … Continue reading "My Notes: The Cloud as a Platform"

Session Speaker: Wally McClure (on intro slide said: aka: “.NET Judas”) Where we are at now: Laptops are not quite convenient Power management is important Wifi is not everywhere Multiple smart phone platforms iPhone has tremendous mind share/market share Android has seen tremendous growth RIM is dominant in the corporate market still WP7 has shipped .NET … Continue reading "My Notes:Android Dev for .NET/C# Developers with Mono for Android"

Session Speaker: Nickolas Landry Main focus is Interacting with location service.  Not a very popular session as only five people in this session. WP7 location services -Phone positioning via GPS, Assisted-GPS (cell towers) and WiFi Bing maps Web Services include: (REST & SOAP) Geocoding service Routing service Search service Geospatial Data storage options SQL Server 2008 SQL Azure Bing spatial … Continue reading "My Notes:Building Location Intel In Your WP7 Apps with Bing Maps"

Session speaker: Robert Machale Unfortunately Robert had trouble accessing his Google Docs account, so he did not have access to his slides.  Worst part was that he didn’t let the room know he was waiting to try and get on the network for the first 15 mins of the session.  After 15 mins, then finally mentioned … Continue reading "My Notes:GPS for Android"