1. Upcoming conferences

    There are some upcoming conferences in the next weeks where I’ll be speaking or travelling to. Here are the details:

    First I’ll be speaking at the Quo Vadis Game Development conference in Berlin on the creation of OpenSocial games:

    How to create social games for millions of users

    Social games have become very popular in the last years. In this workshop I will show you how to create an OpenSocial based game which can be played by over 900 million users on many social networks around the world. After introducing you to the main concepts behind OpenSocial I will demonstrate live that it is easier than you think to develop a rich social game. Additionally to the basics like accessing the user’s social graph through the REST or JavaScript API, communication with backends or integration with external APIs through OAuth, I will also highlight features that will help you with a quick viral distribution, tight integration into the user’s social experience and access through mobile devices.

    03. May 2011 - Raum A04 - Beginn: 13:30 Uhr - Dauer: 90 min.

    A few days after that I’ll be heading to San Francisco for this year’s Google IO and the OpenSocial State of the Union.

    When I’m back the IPC 2011 Spring Edition is coming up where I’ll be presenting on JavaScript Mashups:

    Mashing up JavaScript – Advanced Techniques for modern Web Apps

    Nowadays many modern web applications are solely relying on JavaScript to render their frontend. But if you want to create mashups, load data from many different places or include external widgets into your site, you are quickly running into boundaries because of browser and security restrictions. In this presentation I will talk about techniques helping you with such problems.

    31.05.2011 | 14:15 - 15:15

    Originally I had planned to go to the CodeStock conference in Knoxville after that, where my JavaScript Mashup talk had been accepted as well but unfortunately the dates are colliding with the Federated Social Web Conference in Berlin, which I’ll be attending instead now.