Speaker: Matt Rogish | Director of Development at <a href="
http://toura.com/">Toura</a>.
Bio: Matt has an extensive career in software engineering/architecture, web application development and system administration. At Toura, he is deeply involved in the design, development, and implementation of Toura’s mobile applications and asset infrastructure. Most recently,...
[read more] Speaker: Matt Rogish | Director of Development at <a href="
http://toura.com/">Toura</a>.
Bio: Matt has an extensive career in software engineering/architecture, web application development and system administration. At Toura, he is deeply involved in the design, development, and implementation of Toura’s mobile applications and asset infrastructure. Most recently, he was the Chief Technical Officer of The J. Peterman Company, a catalog and web-based apparel company located in Lexington, KY. While at J. Peterman, Matt rebuilt the hardware and software infrastructure, redesigned the website (resulting in increased conversions) and designed/implemented several Ruby on Rails web applications. Earlier positions included Technical and Database Architect for Project Dragonfly, a division of Miami University, Adjunct Professor in Computer Science and Interactive Media Studies (Miami University), DBA at The Institute for Genomic research in Rockville, MD, and other software development leadership roles. He has a computer science undergraduate and a MBA from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Abstract: PhoneGap is an open source framework for building cross-platform mobile applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This is an ideal solution for web developers interested in mobile development as it allows them to leverage existing skills rather than start form scratch with a device-specific compiled language; it also works well if you want an application to run on multiple devices with the same code base. In this talk, I'll discuss the pros and cons of PhoneGap, give a brief survey of other cross-platform mobile application frameworks, an overview to the PhoneGap architecture/ecosystem, and discuss our new open-source framework, <a href="
http://mulberry.toura.com">Mulberry</a>
