Research In Motion, the maker of BlackBerry mobile phones and tablets, has been investing heavily in Web technologies over the past couple of years, including a number of Open Source projects. In this session, we will present this work: WebWorks, a platform to package Web apps and adopt a native app life cycle; Ripple, a browser-based tool to test your mobile Web apps for any platform (not just BlackBerry), and BlackBerry’s unique remote WebInspector facility, which allows you to remotely debug your mobile Web application from your desktop. This session will walk you through a technical description of the steps involved in building, testing and packaging a Web app with all those modern tools.
Duration: 40:0
Laurent Hasson
Laurent is the Technical Director responsible for driving strategy, architecture, open source and community relationships around RIM’s Web Platform. He joined RIM in the Spring 2010 and has been focused on the WebKit browser, WebWorks, Ripple, and recently, experimental projects such as AliceJS. Before that, he was at IBM for 14 years, working on enterprise Web projects such as eCommerce, Web frameworks and tooling, Search and Social Software, and participated in open source strategies in the company. Laurent has been deep in web technologies since the mid 90’s and is an avid JavaScript/HTML/CSS, Java and SQL developer for both Desktop and Mobile. He codes and watches at least one movie every day, and he has funny hair.