Workshops

Wednesday, November 20 (9:00 - 5:00pm)

1. 

   Secrets to Making Your Startup Great

   Ryan Carson

   A great idea is not enough to build a great company. No matter how grand your vision or how big your potential customer base, you will need a lot more to be truly successful. In this workshop, entrepreneur Ryan Carson (founder of Treehouse and Carsonified) takes you step by step through several key activities that can make or break a startup. No matter what industry or stage your startup is in, Ryan will leave you with rock solid advice for marketing, team building, user acquisition, culture hacking, technology selection, and other key success factors for taking your startup to the next level.

   What You'll Learn

   • How to hire the right people for key positions
   • How to motivate your team the right way
   • Which proven user acquisition strategies might be right for your company
   • How to chose the right platform for your stage of development
   • When to consider a pivot, a restructuring, or other drastic changes
   • How to generate buzz around your product or company
2. 

   Building Client-Side Web Applications with Backbone.JS and Coffeescript

   Chad Pytel

   You build web apps, and you’ve seen the shift towards highly interactive, rich client-side web applications. Learn the better way to build rich, interactive applications using Backbone.js and CoffeeScript. In this workshop you will learn the fundamentals of Backbone.js and CoffeeScript as we build a real web application together. This workshop is intended for web developers already comfortable with JavaScript and jQuery.

   What You'll Learn

   • How to build client-side web applications with Backbone.js
   • The different pieces of Backbone.js (Models, Views, Router, and Templates) and how they fit together to build great applications
   • To effectively use Backbone.js Event binding to create dynamic applications
   • Using CoffeeScript instead of JavaScript
3. 

   iOS/Android Architecture Done Right

   Elliott Garcea and Emir Hasanbegovic

   Setting up your application infrastructure takes more care on Mobile than any other platform, simply due to the volatility of mobile network connections. Providing a smooth user experience in this environment is not an easy task. Learn how to solve this problem from the bottom up in this hands-on workshop by implementing local-first caching on the two most popular platforms, Android and iOS. Platform experts from Xtreme Labs will be on hand to help with any problems/ questions that may arise. This workshop is for developers who are familiar with mobile development and have brought their tools with them. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: + How to overcome network volatility to provide the best possible user experience with local caching policies + Strategies for prioritizing data usage by bundling API requests and pre-caching data + Techniques to prevent poorly-designed APIs from impacting the design of your application + How to provide a single user interface that returns consistent results.