Techcamp Costa Rica Presentations Summary
- November 17th, 2009
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This is a summary of some presentations given yesterday, congratulations to the people that worked on TechCamp 
Scrum
Speaker: @agilenature
The scrum presentation reinforces our knowledge about the set of assets (such as the backlog, burn down charts,etc) and actions required to manage a project.
The definitions or scrum roles (product owner, scrum master, developer, tester), the required actions (stand up meetings, effort estimation) can help us to better face a project as a cohesive team and better manage those projects where complexity is high due to not fully understood requirements and/or unknown technology needed to satisfy product objectives.
The main objectives are:
* Give the project visibility (stakeholders have from the beginning a clear state of the project progress)
* Get rid of uncertainty (the product owner is highly involved in the project)
* Manage change.
Since scrum is a extensive topic, the presenter gave us several topics that we can research for further knowledge about the methodology, such as:
Further reading:
- Scrum in 10 minutes .
- Stakeholder management.
- “Poker” effort estimation.
Appcelerator
Speaker: @yeco
It talked about the Appcelerator Titanium Mobile which is a framework for building professional-grade applications for the iPhone and Android.
Titanium Mobile offers a way to create native mobile applications using HTML and Javascript. There is access to all native features, like geo-location, local filesystem and database access, and multi-touch and accelerometer controls, but without having to write native code. And because it’s cross-platform, a single codebase will work for both the iPhone and Android Phones.
Further reading:
Firefox Add-on development
The presentation wasn’t about how to develop an add-on for firefox, but it gave a general perspective about the development process and the Mozilla Foundation effort to offer high quality addons by checking and reviewing every development posted here: https://addons.mozilla.org/
The speaker talked about the business opportunity because there are not many companies developing Firefox add-ons and this software has a lot of potential to enhance user experience and productivity when surfing the web.
As for the career path for a Add-on Developer, the speaker talked about his and how it went from being a contributor in 2001 to a Mozilla employee.
Further reading:
Speaker: Jorge@mozilla.org
HTML5 & CSS3
The html is going to make web pages more semantic and browsers will provide more functionality making pages more lightweight even when there is video/audio streaming so HTML5 aims to reduce the use of proprietary plug-in-based rich Internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash.
HTML5 provides new elements that reflect typical usage on current web pages. Some of them are semantic replacements for common uses of
element, such as (website navigation block), and . There is new functionality through a standardized interface, such as the and elements.
There are dropped elements including purely presentational elements such as and
, whose effects are achieved using CSS.
Further reading:
