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On Jun 3, 8:18 am, Mike Wolfson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 mostlyAndroidtalks (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 ofmoneycreatingAndroidapps, 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 actuallymakea 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'tmake > > 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?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
