meego conf 2011 impressions

It's a mixed feeling. Personally it was (always) fun to meet my former coworkers from Qt, Nokia and other KDE folks and catch up and exchange tech gossips. I am also excited to get to know MeeGo team from Intel side as well. The conference itself is professionally organized. The Hacker Lounge idea is perfect, a basement to hang out 24 hours with free cold drinks, lots of games (from fussball to pingpong), superfast and reliable WiFi, and of course a bunch of comfy couches. Hyatt Regency itself proves to be a really really nice venue from such a developer conference.

The three-day program was packed with tons of sessions, anything from Qt 5, Wayland, Scene Graph, Media and IVI, and various other BoFs. Lots of exciting new technologies coming to the next version of MeeGo! Oh BTW, the releases will be every 6 months, expect MeeGo 1.3 in October 2011, along with its experimental Wayland support.

From the device-give-away perspective, Intel threw a lot of ExoPC tablets (flashed with MeeGo 1.2 preview), as part of its AppUp program. I got one for a while, it's really easy to port your existing Qt apps using its SDK (but that's a separate blog post).

But that's about it. LG was supposed to showcase its MeeGo-based LG GW990 (based on Intel Moorestown). There was even rumor that LG has also a tablet product, instead of only just a smartphone. And of course Nokia has its own N9 phone in the pipeline. None of this happened.

When I remember back at Maemo Summit 2009 in Amsterdam, there was an accelerated momentum just because Nokia gave N900 to everyone. It was a top-of-the-line phone at that time, I still even use it for various demos. Back then I was still with Nokia and after all these years, it's not funny to see that everyone is still using it. It's fine and dandy to have millions of cars using MeeGo for its infotainment, smart TVs based on MeeGo, and so on. A refresh in this smartphone party however would have made a much more dramatic impact with respect to the momentum in the development community.

Seems I still need to wait until I can use a MeeGo phone as my primary phone. Meanwhile, I'll stick with ExoPC tablet to learn various bits of MeeGo. And hopefully nothing would exhaust my patience.

meego conf 2011

It's MeeGo time! 2011 conference will be held in Hyatt Regency, San Francisco.

The complete program has been published. For topics related to Qt (among others), check what Thiago listed. In particular, of course yours truly be there, talking about Hybrid Apps (Native + Web) using WebKit.

If you will be around, see you there!

camp kde 2011

Camp KDE 2011 was a fabulous experience. First of all, there is definitely something with me and Camp KDE. The previous one was in San Diego and at that time I was there working for Qualcomm. This year it is San Francisco, right after I moved to the Bay Area.

Videos of the sessions have been published. I contributed two talks there, one is about the (usual) graphics stuff with Qt (video, slides). The other one is a series of demos of web technologies (video, slides).

There are some interview videos as well. If you watch Wade and me, you can spot a little guy there. Pay attention to his shirt :)

The venue can't be better, it's in the center of Japantown. Even better, the weekend after is the Cherry Blossom Festival.

Since I don't live in a big city anymore, it's also fascinating to be able to spot a cozy cafe right between all the big buildings. Right in Japantown, we found YakiniQ which serves a must-try sweet potato latte!

All in all, it was a blast for me. Beside catching up with the people I met before, finally I got to meet folks I only know through our online interaction.

Kudos to the Camp KDE organizers! See you in 2012.

camp kde in 2 weeks

My first Camp KDE experience was when it was held in San Diego, which was also interesting since at that time, I just moved there.

Just like the planets align themselves, apparent my move to the Bay Area is matched with this year Camp KDE in San Francisco. This time, it is co-located with Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. For more info, just check the official site: camp.kde.org.

The schedule for the tracks has been finalized, there will be various talks around KDE on Mobile, PIM, and of course Qt. I myself will have two presentations: Introduction to QtWebKit and Efficient Graphics with Qt: Beautiful and Blazing Fast.

See you there!

SenchaCon 2010

At the last successful, sold-out Sencha Conference 2010, I did two introductory talks about JavaScript and WebKit, mainly targeted for web application developers. Since a few weeks ago, the videos for these talks have been available for you to watch.

JavaScript Engines: Under the Hood is 10,000-foot overview on how a typical JavaScript engine works. Watch it below or at vimeo.com/18783283, with the accompanying slides at http://slidesha.re/gGx9aA.

The other talk Compiling and Optimizing Your Own Browser with WebKit (vimeo.com/18780399 for the video, http://slidesha.re/fPSvXX for the slide deck), mostly showing few tricks you can leverage to understand how your web applications work. For example, by using QtWebKit and capturing all the drawing commands and the corresponding timestamp, it is very easy to have a slow-motion rendering of your web page. As I showed it in the talk, it is even possible to go back in time, i.e. rendering your web page backwards.

Many other videos from SenchaCon 2010 have been published as well. Make sure you check them out.

Enjoy!

Qt Developer Days, Bay Area Mobile meetup

We heard that Munich Qt Developer Days was an awesome event, which is why I look forward to the San Francisco Qt Developer Days, which will be held November 1-3.

Now, if you are from outside US, drop me an email in case you fancy some quality tea/coffee time. Even better, on the next day (November 4), Sencha will host the first Meet the Sencha Team, the first Bay Area Mobile meetup. Our team will give an overview of Sencha and the mobile technologies we are developing. RSVP and drop by!

san francisco

I have been in Qt Developer Days twice, in the previous two years. This year I am still going there, but only the San Francisco event, for the first time as a participant (as opposed to as a speaker). I'll bring other new engineers at Sencha, too.

Since I live in the Bay Area these days, feel free to email me should you want to meet for coffee/lunch/dinner. See you there!

google io 2010

In few hours, I am scheduled to fly to San Francisco, bracing for the impact of Google I/O 2010!

2009 developer days

Just like last year, this fall we will have another Qt Developer Days. Europeans might want to visit Munich, Americans are better served with San Francisco.

Will I go there? Well, unless there is something wrong, yes I will. Note that a little information about the sessions is already available. I leave it as an exercise to the reader, which talks in the Innovate track I will hold :)