Nokia S60 Tech Day Conference Analysis
By Stefan Constantinescu on Sunday, November 26th, 2006 at 2:11 AM PST In Symbian
The rest of the first and the complete second days were the tech
tracks. They offered a basic and advanced track. I took the basic
track, never having had touched any sort of mobile development. After a
drawn out process of everyone trying to install the development
environment, SDKs, etc., lots and lots of bytes worth of this stuff, we
were on our way. After you get used to the idiosyncrasies of
development in a new and foreign environment, it all seems to makes
some sort of logical sense.The main development environment used is called Carbide.c++.
It’s based on Eclipse and promoted by Nokia (NYSE: NOK). It seemed alright.
Although someone recently looking for a development environment for S60
did try it but ended up going with some add-in for Visual Studio
instead.Overall writing S60 apps isn’t rocket science. Just different. And
like a lot of times when you look at developing something outside of
one’s realm of comfortableness, it takes a mental push to break on
through to the other side.…
Overall it was a very good conference at a great venue.
Source: Radioactive Code
Nokia knows, treat your developers like gold and they will help your platform flourish! I’m saddened however by the Palm (NSDQ: PALM) joke, they were such an innovative and fantastic company. I’m sad to see them go, but the phrase "innovate or die" definitely pops into mind. What I want to know now is why this conference wasn’t in Europe or the US?
“What I want to know now is why this conference wasn’t in Europe or the US?”
Shame it wasn’t held where others could get access to some of the material and the people from Nokia (and other companies). One thing I liked was that it catered to both complete beginners as well as advanced developers.
Although, Australia is a place which usually misses out on cool conferences, so we’re lucky to get this one.
You are right on that one, Australia misses out on a lot of good expos.
Blame the flight time!
It is very rare to see a conference that tries to appeal to the hardcore and the novice. Hey man as long as you got something out of it, that’s all that counts