By Todd R. Weiss
In the next two days, prepare to be
inspired, educated, challenged, informed and entertained by a cast of
diverse IT experts who are here to share their insights and
experiences on a wide swath of software development topics.
I'm technology journalist Todd R.
Weiss, and I'm a regular contributor to Computerworld, PC World and
TechTarget, writing about enterprise IT and the challenges it brings
daily to businesses and their busy IT staffs.
I'm here on behalf of Chariot Solutions
to help cover this conference and bring some of its key highlights to
their customers and attendees at this 6th annual Emerging
Technologies for the Enterprise Conference (ETE) in Philadelphia.
Among the software development notables
here for this information-packed event are:
*Mobile application consultant Jonathan
Stark, who is the author of O’Reilly Media’s Building iPhone
Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Jonathan will talk about his alternative approaches to building apps
for iPhone and iPad using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
*David Kaneda, the
developer of jQTouch,
a Javascript framework for iPhone development and creative director
at Sencha. David will talk about
Sencha Touch, a mobile web app framework that allows developers to
create rich mobile apps which look and feel native.
*Josh Clark, a designer who specializes
in mobile design strategy and user experience. Josh is the author of
“Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps” and “Best
iPhone Apps” from O'Reilly Media.
*Eduardo Jezierski, theCTO of InSTEDD,
a non-profit that helps communities around the world use, design and
develop information tools for their health, safety and development.
Eduardo will lecture about "Architecture and Agility With Lives
at Stake."
*Jonas Boner, the creator of the Akka
development framework, who will describe Akka in detail and show how
it can be used to solve hard scalability problems.
*Mark Chadwick, the chief architect at
Google subsidiary Invite Media, who will describe how Invite Media
serves up millions of advertisements to targeted consumers every hour
in his lecture, Doing
the Mundane a Million Times a Minute.
This year the ETE conference is part of
the first "Philly Tech
Week" being organized in Philadelphia across a wide range of
sites in the city. Philly Tech Week is a first-time event that's
being promoted to showcase the bustling technology community in the
region.
This is the biggest year yet for the
ETE conference, which is hosting almost 500 attendees in 2011, said
Tracey Welson-Rossman, director of sales and marketing for software
development consulting firm Chariot Solutions of Fort Washington, Pa.
"We really feel that this is a
tipping point and that we're going to let people outside the area
know that there's hidden high-tech gems in the Philadelphia area,"
Welson-Rossman said. "Were really fortunate to have this level
of talent that comes to us here at the conference."
"We know that the Philadelphia
community has an incredibly strong tech community," she said.
"That’s why were able to have this show. We wouldn't be able
to attract the speakers if the area didn’t have this reputation."
Todd R. Weiss is a longtime
technology journalist who worked as a staff writer for
Computerworld.com from 2000 to 2008. Now a freelance tech journalist,
Weiss contributes regularly to Computerworld, PCWorld.com and other
publications. He has also written extensively for Linux.com,
ForecastingClouds.com and TechTarget on a wide range of enterprise IT
topics from Linux and open source to disaster recovery, cloud
computing, virtualization, application development, IT education and
mobile and wireless technologies. He began writing about computers in
1996 after a newspaper editor he worked for told him that "no
one cares about technology." Apparently, the editor was wrong.
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