Ben Ellingson

Presentations

iPad/iPhone Seminar - Part I

You're adept at Java. You've got a solid grasp of that ecosystem. But you keep hearing about iPhone this, iPad that. It worries you just a bit that you haven't yet spent the time to explore this new frontier. Cure that with a nearly Java-free intense four hour boot camp on the iPad. During this session, you'll use your UberConf-supplied device to get started coding on the XCode platform, learning the Objective-C language, testing, and deploying your apps.

No previous iPad ecosystem knowledge is assumed. Matthew McCullough and Ben Ellingson will take you from the ground up in this unique coding environment. With their hands on teaching style and one-on-one assistance, you'll explore what it takes to build and deploy an application for the iPhone and iPad devices. We'll start with a simple application that you'll code from line 1 to line 200, all the while testing it in the iPad simulator. Along the way, you'll also discover the Developer signup process and digital certificate setup required to push beta applications to the device. Finally, we will integrate an iPad app with data from a JSON web service.

iPad/iPhone Seminar - Part II

Workshop part II will focus on debugging. First, we will revisit deployment to iPad / iPhone devices, cover common application debugging techniques, writing unit tests, and debugging tools. We will also include time for you to ask questions and work through any issues you are having.

You'll will walk away with a complete understanding of the iPad ecosystem, including the coding, testing, deployment and web mashup processes. You'll be equipped to participate and even initiate your team's next iPad enabled application design and coding efforts.