Interesting perspective JP, thanks. I found the conference really great. The technical content of the presentations was excellent.
I haven't been able to find any of the presentations on YouTube (in particular, I really want my boss to see - "THe Myth of the Genius Programmer" - which I thought was very entertaining, and full of great insight on how to successfully develop software). JR, if you know how to find them, I would be very interested. I attended mostly Android talks (that was my focus), and found a few talks especially interesting (the one on programming for battery life, the one given by the "eyes-free" guys, and the "debugging tools of the ninja masters") were all pretty cool. I don't think there was a lot of "insider" information shared (other than they demo of the donut improvements that was part of the day 1 keynote). The conference itself was reasonably well organized. They ran out of some food on the second day (which was a pain, as it made it difficult for me to get to my next session in time), and the only T-Shirts they had at noon on the first day, were girls Large and smaller (um, most developers are men, and some of use are big - kind of an obvious planning snafu). The internet connectivity was spotty as well (probably due to all the people turning on their new phones and updating them all at the same time). Otherwise, there was plenty of caffeine and snacks (and adult beverages at the after hours events). Overall, it was a great 2 days. While I didn't meet anyone making tons of money creating Android apps, I sure met a bunch of people excited about the platform, with great ideas. On Jun 1, 6:29 pm, JP <[email protected]> wrote: > > I read that all you lucky developers who attended got the developer > > phone with Donut on it. > > Well actually 1.1 was on mine; I received an OTA update for 1.5 a > couple of hours after I had the device out. 2.0/Donut was previewed in > the keynote session on day 1. Mobile web app development w/ HTML5/ > Gears/GWT is all the rage now however, so if you look for the latest, > you'll need to get a Palm Pre with an HTML5 browser on... > > > How was the content of the workshops? > > The technical level of the sessions was outstanding. The hands-on > people like Romain Guy or Bruce Johnson were up there. You should see > the sessions of the conferences that I normally attend (no, don't), so > that was a really cool aspect of the conference. But you can see for > yourself on YouTube. > > > How was it overall? > > The food was so-so, but that's not what we were there for, of course. > Beyond the tapes on YouTube... the following is my impression: There > didn't seem to be many people attending that actually make a solid > buck using Google's technologies. I would have loved to get a show of > hands in one of the Q&A's, but that would have been a pretty douchy > thing to do, of course. So, going by my impression, the level of > maturity in that regard is way, way below similar events that Sun > (strike that, Oracle), Apple or Microsoft may hold. I spoke to a few > people that are looking for teaming partners they can leverage for > product delivery or the provision of professional services, and plenty > of people who are looking for work right now. Which of course is not > unique to Google I/O, but a pointed difference here is that hardly any > firm outside of Google seem to be actually using any of the > technologies that the conference featured. Out in the hall, there was > a little show with three, four densely packed rows of small stands > featuring firms developing with Google's products. You couldn't make > me staff one of these. That was a pittyful showing, in particular > considering the hoopla overall. Lombardi who are using GWT, had a > session, I want to mention that. No CA's, IBM's, HP's, SAP's, > Lockheed's or the like in sight that would use Google's devel products > (and in turn hire young compsci's). To be sure, that of course is > reflected in an anemic job market for Google technologies, outside of > Google itself, maybe. Just consider in every hick town they need > their .NET programmers. Sure, that might be smallball, but Google > doesn't even reach a middle ground here that would lay an industry > foundation. So, beyond the plain technology aspect, that I have the > luxury to be able to limit myself to, that's a really discouraging > takeaway from the conference. > JP > > On May 30, 7:10 pm, MikaSue <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I read that all you lucky developers who attended got the developer > > phone with Donut on it. How was the content of the workshops? How > > was it overall? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
