Dutch Mobile Conference 2012
7 - 9 Jun 2012 at Amsterdam RAI

Although the talk was short it didn't quite matter, there was a soccer match to be played that night! :)
But Joe showed exactly where we are going to, people spend a lot of time and money on mobile devices. And to target each and every consumer the best way to go is using SOA's and do the consuming of them in all the great technologies we have available.
This talk confirmed the way I look at present day and the future of development myself.

I missed this talk on the first day so I was glad I could attend most of it on day 2 of the conference. Joe really has awesome slides and the way he speaks about creating mobile applications really gives me the energy to do an even better job next time. Going through all the technologies was really cool, and using SOA's is definitely the way to go. I can't wait for all the other devices which will adopt mobile technologies. That's what's making my job fun and challenging!

This talk was very interesting, when I think of progressive enhancement I think in terms of CSS and Javascript. But it turned out to be an awesome talk about how you enhance a website to an app on Android. I really loved the punch line saying that what Chiu-Ki told us was actually how Phonegap works internally.
What I always did for Android was just copy over all the Phonegap stuff and configure my project, but this really gave me insight in how I can bend things to use it for the better. And that is very useful when it comes to creating real apps, in present day you still can't do everything without doing some native stuff.

I really liked this talk as the subject was completely new to me. It was also refreshing to have 2 speakers on the stage doing the talk. Although the subject was not in the line of my day to day job, it was very insightful to see how things in the processes close to me work, and to discover why I get certain demands from my PM.
One thing I'd also like to mention is that the design of the slides was really really nice!

Ed was doing a great job to open the second conference day, he mentioned a couple of things I am still struggling with today as being solved recently (so definitely will look into that), and showed us which challenges are ahead. I think he predicted the future in a very truthful way.

Ed started the session by saying it was going to be chaos, but it turned out to be a great talk! Ed showed all the stuff Sencha Touch 2 is capable of and even though it was very high level (I'm very comfortable with ST2 myself) it was a very nice recap which got me thinking about the way I am sometimes using it.

This talk really helped me to see what I was doing wrong, I already discovered many of the stuff mentioned myself during a project which needed a lot of optimization. But still, it took me 2 weeks at that time, while I could've just attend this session and learn it in 45 minutes!
If you're doing mobile development you really need to watch this talk sometime when you have the chance.

I really liked the keynote, it had funny parts, enlightening parts but it also made me think about the brain and the gut. A bit more graphics in the slides might've helped, but it actually didn't bother me because the content was so good.

Estelle wasn't actually doing a tutorial, but she stood up when one of the tutorials was being cancelled (KLM wasn't really helping...). And because the subject was a whole lot different not many people attended. But I got a surprise... THEY SHOULD HAVE!!! This was awesome stuff! Estelle gathered materials from her talks and did superb job!
I have a background as a PHP developer, and since I'm using Sencha Touch I'm a bit more into CSS, but Estelle also showed that CSS selectors aren't just meant for CSS tasks only. You can use them in jQuery or even drop jQuery and use all this great info directly in Javascript.
The second part about gradients was fun, I'm not someone who does a whole lot of visual stuff, but knowing what kills performance is something which really helps me in my day to day job. The theme of the talk was also about making things ugly. Sorry for chuckling when I made the table-cloth example really ugly by turning it to yellow.
The third part just blew my mind, it's amazing how powerfull CSS is when it comes to making animations. I probably won't be a CSS-superstar like Estelle, but I really learned a lot how to put this to good use.

I was only able to join at the start of the tutorial, but Pratik did a great job, he helped people with getting the setup right in a very fast and efficient way. The prepared Voterlab code is something which I will use as a reference for a long time to see how to get things done.
Also the pace of the tutorial was great, it started of playing with components and moved to events, so you get to learn things step by step.