Google I/O 2010 — Notes & Stuff — A Geek Thing

I am one of the lucky developers (one of the 5000) that can attend Google I/O 2010. I watched many videos from youtube, so I was very prepared for the sessions, but the overall experience was something well beyond my expectations. Below you can find the things I wrote during the three day marathon. Most of the items the things I will check out until the next Google I/O.

And finally, my resolution for the next year is to have a couple of Android apps on the market (maybe a game who knows).

Keywords — that I took note during the sessions

• Google Web Elements — http://www.google.com/webelements/

• Data Liberation Front — http://www.dataliberation.org/

• Google Ajax APIs — http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/

• KML Tutorial — http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kml_tut.html

• Google Maps js API V3 — http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/

• Spring Roo –  Framework from VMWare that can easily be integrated with a GWT frontend — http://www.springsource.org/roo

• Google Chrome Web App Store — http://blog.chromium.org/2010/05/chrome-web-store.html

• WebM is an open media file format designed for the web.  — http://www.webmproject.org/about/

• http://www.openclipart.org

• Lots of things start or finish with enterprise enterprise enterprise (boooring…..)

• Draconian Future (from Keynote Day 2 — referring Apple and Steve Jobs I guess — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draconian

• Go ANDROID — Froyo 2.2 — 18 months — 180.000 developers — 50.000 applications on Market

• V8 Javascript Engine — http://code.google.com/p/v8/

• Sunspider javascript benchmark — http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html

• qik — video sharing site — well, I have heard qik before, but when you use it, with live streaming and instant sharing stuff, it really is amazing

• Dalvik VM — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_%28software%29

• VP8 — video codec — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP8

• What is Android? — http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html

• What is OpenGL ES ? — http://www.khronos.org/opengles/

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Sessions I attend

The following three are from the Bootcamp which is one day before the io. I was fast enough to register for the event, that I can enter. This was like a warm up for the actual thing.(Bootcamp Schedule — https://sites.google.com/site/iobootcamp/schedule)

• Introduction to Google App Engine

• Mapping in 3D: Tips and tricks for Google Earth API and KML

• The Big Picture and How to Get Started

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And these are from the session in io:

• Ignite Google I/O (http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/ignite-google-io.html) — the ones I like the most are,

• • Matt Harding (Where The Hell Is Matt?
  • Bradley Vickers – How to Row across the North Atlantic, Ration Food and Not Have Your Teammates Eat You

• Casting a wide net: how to target all Android devices (http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/casting-wide-net-android-devices.html) — way to technical for me, I am not an Android developer (yet). Also next room, there was another session of Paul Graham, it was full next time pg

• Architecting GWT applications for production at Google (http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/architecting-production-gwt.html) — Presentation smells like enterprise which I am far from interested. Also, I am not sure about all these code generation stuff for DTOs (Spring Roo), also Vmware&spring is not my favorite source of inspiration (although I play with Grails lately)

• HTML5 status update (http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/html5-status-chrome.html) — Last session of the i/o 2010. Two product managers of Chrome made a good summary of HTML 5 features and their perspective on the spec.

Keynotes that I can not attend since I was sleeping at that time

• Day 1 — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a46hJYtsP-8&feature=player_embedded#!

• Day 2 — they haven’t put a full version yet…

Day One After Party
This was a real nerdvana. a 8 leg giant spider that you can literally drive, pac man, food (like a lot), beer (free as in a lot free), huge screens with geeky videos, a toy like thing that you can control it with your mind and try to fly a ball by focusing sth sexy!, robots that play football, Tesla (sexy electric car), beer, remote control robot that try to demolish balloon with its tail, red wine…

Toys, Food, Drinks, T-shirts

Nexus One, HTC EVO, t-shirts, lots of Pepsi, Starbucks Coffee