Mobile Web - Creating websites ready for small devices

The mobile web has created a rush for companies to get their presence on small devices. Fortunately there are several open-source UI toolkits to help you create custom versions of your web site or web application for popular phone such as iPhone and Android. This session explores these toolkits and best practices.

In this session, we'll code up a mobile-ready website. We'll also look at some best practices for creating these sites. We'll talk about the differences between various devices. Finally, we'll look at the emerging HTML5 standard and how you can leverage it now and in the future to make portable web sites. We'll look at the Webkit specific extension for designing web pages and the new Canvas features for doing graphics.

About Pratik Patel

Pratik Patel is the CTO of Atlanta based TripLingo (http://www.triplingo.com/). He wrote the first book on 'enterprise Java' in 1996, "Java Database Programming with JDBC." He has also spoken at various conferences and participates in several local tech groups and startup groups. He's in the startup world now and hacks iOS, Android, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Rails, and ..... well everything except Perl.

Pratik's specialty is in large-scale applications for mission-critical and mobile applications use. He has designed and built applications in the retail, health care, financial services, and telecoms sectors. Pratik holds a master's in Biomedical Engineering from UNC, has worked in places such as New York, London, and Hong Kong, and currently lives in Atlanta, GA.

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