Building Open-Source Desktop Apps with the Titanium Platform
*Excerpt
The open-source Titanium platform allows developers to use their existing knowledge of rich web application technologies – JavaScript, Python, Ruby, HTML and CSS – to build desktop applications. In this presentation we'll go from start to finish building a desktop application using Titanium.
Description
Titanium is a truly open-source alternative to Adobe AIR, allowing developers to use their existing knowledge of rich web application technologies – JavaScript, Python, Ruby, HTML and CSS – to build desktop applications.
In this presentation, we will:
- introduce the Titanium platform and the technology/people behind it
- demonstrate the power and features of the Titanium API
- look at WebKit’s power with CSS3 transformations, slick canvas support, and built-in vector graphics
- show the inherit reusability of code by combining JavaScript, Python, Ruby
- go through creation of a simple desktop application from start to finish
Attendees should have a decent understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Knowledge of Python and Ruby are optional. We will leverage a number of open source web libraries, mainly at high levels to demonstrate the best of breed technologies that are reusable in Titanium.
Tags
javascript, html, css, titanium, webkit
Speaking experience
Speakers
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Marshall Culpepper
Appcelerator- Website: http://titaniumapp.com/
Biography
Marshall (@marshall_law) is a long-time open source hacker with contributions to many projects including Appcelerator Entourage, Eclipse, Webtools, JBoss, JBoss Tools, Hibernate Tools, and Pydev. He is now the project lead for Appcelerator’s Titanium project, which you can find at http://titaniumapp.com
Sessions
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- Title: Building Open-Source Desktop Apps with the Titanium Platform
- Track: Cooking
- Room: St. Johns
- Time: 1:45 – 3:30pm
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Excerpt:
The open-source Titanium platform allows developers to use their existing knowledge of rich web application technologies – JavaScript, Python, Ruby, HTML and CSS – to build desktop applications. In this presentation we’ll go from start to finish building a desktop application using Titanium.
- Speakers: Marshall Culpepper, Martin Robinson
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Biography
Martin started his love affair with free software just under a decade ago and hasn’t looked back since. Currently he works with Appcelerator, Inc building development tools for web developers, drinking large pots of coffee and generally shuffling braces (curly or otherwise) around.
Sessions
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- Title: Building Open-Source Desktop Apps with the Titanium Platform
- Track: Cooking
- Room: St. Johns
- Time: 1:45 – 3:30pm
-
Excerpt:
The open-source Titanium platform allows developers to use their existing knowledge of rich web application technologies – JavaScript, Python, Ruby, HTML and CSS – to build desktop applications. In this presentation we’ll go from start to finish building a desktop application using Titanium.
- Speakers: Marshall Culpepper, Martin Robinson
-