Christopher Judd

Developer, Consultant, Author & Mobility Expert

Christopher Judd

Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions (http://www.juddsolutions.com), an international speaker, an open source evangelist, the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) and Columbus iPhone Developer User Group leader, and the co-author of Beginning Groovy and Grails (Apress, 2008) as well as the author of the children’s book “Bearable Moments”. He has spent 16 years architecting and developing software for Fortune 500 companies in various industries, including insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation. His current focus is on consulting, mentoring, and training with Java, Java EE, Groovy, Grails, Cloud Computing and mobile platforms like iPhone, Android, Java ME and mobile web.



Presentations

iOS Tutorial

During the all day iOS hands-on tutorial, we will do soup to nuts iOS development.

We will start with how to use XCode and build a universal application for iPhone and iPad using a variety of common APIs. We will finish up talking about and demoing how to prepare and deploy to the app store. The app we build will allow us to experiment with a bunch of APIs including Core Data, Camera, and more.

MOBILE CROSS PLATFORM DECISIONS

Few enterprises and entrepreneur have the money or desire to build native applications for the two most popular mobile platforms, iOS and Android, let alone all the other mobile platforms.

This presentation provides a comparison and contrast of some of the leading mobile cross platform solutions such as Titanium, PhoneGap, Flash, Mobile Web and likely others that popup. Hopefully after this presentation you will be able to make better informed decisions which solution best meets your mobile business stategy and needs.

iOS Workshop

During the all day iOS hands-on tutorial, we will do soup to nuts iOS development. We will start with how to use XCode and build a universal application for iPhone and iPad using a variety of common APIs. We will finish up talking about and demoing how to prepare and deploy to the app store.

The app we build will allow us to experiment with a bunch of APIs including Core Data, Camera, and more.