What an exciting time it is to be a modern Web Developer!  No longer confined to just a browser the web has become a platform of dynamic interactive applications and games.  With the rise of technologies like HTML5 Canvas and WebGL, to the scaling power of Node.js, those same web skills can now be used to create engaging Apps on mobile devices.  With the Amazon’s Mobile Web App Distribution program you can even distribute your Web Apps on Kindle Fire and select Android devices in nearly 200 countries around the globe.

We will be on site at HTML5DevConf giving open office hours to help answer any technical or app submission process questions you have as well as a session on optimizing HTML5 for distribution on Mobile Devices.

From the HTML5DevConf website…

The HTML5 Developers Conference continues to grow into the largest software developer focused conference in the known universe, with the finest technical speakers in the cosmos. Our core strengths are in mobile web cross platform technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Node.js, coding and design for client side, apps and servers.

Our next conference is at Moscone North in downtown San Francisco on October 22nd & 23rd.  Registration link: http://html5devconf-oct13.eventbrite.com/
 

Hope to see you there!

-Dave (@TheDaveDev)

My colleagues Peter Heinrich and Mike Hines recently sat down and chatted about all the mobile and gaming developer goodness coming at AWS re:Invent 2013 in a few weeks.

Click here to watch their exclusive interview on YouTube!

AWS re:Invent is the largest gathering of developers and technical leaders from the AWS community from around the world.  This year marks the addition of a dedicated Mobile and Gaming Track that has everything you need to get your apps and games scalable and ready to engage customers. 

Presentations are highly technical and include developers sharing their own real world experiences.  Everything from Mobile App Performance by New Relic to High-Performance Ops for Mobile Gaming by GREE and peak into Building Killzone Servers from Guerrilla Games and SCE Online Technology Group.

Besides all of the great networking you would expect at a conference this size Peter also informs us of some exciting events.  One of which is the new Game Day event, a place for developers to form teams and build a game infrastructure in the cloud.  Teams will get to use load and server failures to try and break the other team’s system.  Participants will be able to get real experience fixing systems on the fly.

Head over to reinvent.awsevents.com to register.  We look forward to seeing you in November!

-Dave (@TheDaveDev)

If you are in the UK please come out and join us at Droidcon this month! We will be covering how to build apps for the all-new Kindle Fire HDX, participating in the hackathon, and conducting one-on-one technical open office hours.

From the Droidcon website…

Droidcon is the UKs largest conference dedicated to Android development and applications. It is an unique opportunity to meet the Android community, get hands on knowledge about Android development and see the latest in Android applications and technologies. 

The multi-track conference attracts the best speakers from the Android development community, on the latest topics, tablets, enterprise, design ADK. The barcamp is a unique opportunity to share and exchange experience with the 600 Android enthusiasts present at the event. The democamp is a privileged moment to see or show the latest in Android software and hardware applications.

A Hackathon and Workshops will take place after Droidcon on October 26 & 27, 2013.

Hope to see you there!

-Dave (@TheDaveDev)