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Introducing Calatrava

As mobile computing takes over the world, organizations have a dilemma. Do you build separate native apps to get the best user interface or save money and write a mobile web app? Calatrava turns this binary decision into a sliding scale.

I'll talk about how this new open source framework helps build cross-platform mobile apps, with high-quality, native user interfaces.

If you bring a Mac with Git, Ruby, RVM, Bundler, NodeJS, Android SDK and XCode, you can play along too.


Prasanna Pendse

About Prasanna Pendse

Prasanna has been programming since 1994. He was involved in such adventures as creating India's first search engine and an on-line music and video store before getting a real job.

Prasanna's development skillz went up a notch when he learned about TDD in the early 2000s. In fact, TDD (along with pair programming, CI and other XP practices) is a major reason why he still writes code. In 2006, he joined ThoughtWorks.

His coding adventures took him around the US to places such as Chicago (IL), Atlanta (GA), Albany (NY), Warren (NJ), Malvern (PA), San Francisco (CA) as well as around the world to Krakow (Poland), Bangalore (India), Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China), Pune (India), Hong Kong (China) and Johannesburg (South Africa)!

Prasanna plays any of many roles including developer, tech lead, software architect, agile coach, QA, project lead, enterprise architect, technical principal, infrastructure automation and build monkey. He has programmed professionally in JavaScript, Ruby, C#, Java, Perl, PHP, Tcl/Tk, C, C++, Bash and PowerShell.

Besides coding, he enjoys eating different types of food and photography.

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