Simon MacDonald has 20 years of development experience and has worked on a variety of projects including object oriented databases, police communication systems, speech recognition, unified messaging and mobile development. His current focus is convincing folks “you aren’t going to need it” when it comes to building web applications as the Head of Developer Experience at Begin.
Maintaining open source projects can be hard. Between the haters, noobs and entitled masses it can be tough to stay motivated. Learn from my experience how to maintain your sanity along with your code. I'll give some tips and tricks for structuring your project, fostering a positive attitude, growing your community and dealing with guilty feelings when you can't keep up with all the noise.
Did you ever wish your hybrid app could take advantage of push notifications? Wish you could support advanced features like background notifications and action buttons? Well you can with phonegap-plugin-push. In this session you will learn how to add push functionality to your Apache Cordova based application. We'll go over what push notifications are, what they can be used for and most importantly how not to annoy your users.
Learn how you can use speech recognition effectively in your browser and on mobile platforms. We’ll discuss what speech recognition is, review the current state of the W3C Web Speech API specification, including which vendors have implemented pieces of the specification. We’ll have live demos on using speech recognition for dictation, querying the web for answers, and translating English to other languages.