Troy Miles

Angular Summit

Boston · September 27 - 30, 2015

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Software Developer

Troy Miles, aka the Rockncoder, is an award winning software developer, speaker, and author with over 37 years of professional experience. He is the author of the book, jQuery Essentials, numerous magazine articles and blog posts.

He began his career writing games in 6502 and x86 assembly for early computers like the Commodore 64, Apple II, and IBM PC. Along the way, he has twice won the game of the year award, fantastic reviews, and numerous accolades.

Nowadays he writes web & mobile apps for a Southern California-based automotive valuation and information company. He has hung up is assembly language hat, but is fluent in JavaScript, C#, C++, Java, Kotlin, and Clojure.

Nights and weekends he can usually be found writing cool apps for mobile and the web or teaching other developers how to do so. Troy has spoken at Velocity, MobileWeb Dev Con, Mobile Dev+Test, and NG-Vegas. He is also a regular speaker at the SoCal and Silicon Valley Code Camps plus in front of local developer groups all over Southern California. Many of his talks are on his YouTube channel.

Presentations

90% of the Way to Mobile

Developing apps for the web has become cool again mainly thanks to all of the great tooling and frameworks like AngularJS. But even though most of us are happy, we still gaze upon mobile apps with an envious eye. Everyone seems to have a smartphone these days. And building an app that people can carry around everywhere in their pocket seems pretty cool.
But if you know Angular, you are 90% of the way to mobile if you use the Ionic Framework.

The Ionic Framework is an open source combination of Google's AngularJS and Apache's Cordova along with custom JavaScript and CSS3. Ionic is not the slow and clunky looking PhoneGap apps you may have seen before. Instead of trying to support every mobile device out there, Ionic limits itself to the best of breed Android and iOS devices. Ionic apps are nearly indistinguishable from native ones. Several Ionic apps are rated over 4 stars and one was selected as the featured app in the Health and Fitness category by Apple.