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Mobile HTML5

Topics
HTML5,
Mobile,
iOS

Scott Davis explains how to prepare a website for mobile devices from small tweaks –smaller screen sizes, portrait/landscape- to using HTML5’s local storage, application cache, and remote data.

Presentations by Scott Davis

Tomorrow’s Tech Today: HTML5

Topics
Architecture,
Internet

Scott Davis reviews some of the most important HTML5 features: new semantic elements - header, footer, nav, section, and article-, form enhancements - placeholder text, autocomplete, autofocus, and validation-, video and mobile support.

Hidden Web Services: Microformats and the Semantic Web

Topics
Semantic Web,
Architecture

Scott Davis makes a case for metadata or semantic data, pointing out that it is currently used by major websites to improve their traffic or the rank of the pages searched. He is presenting the most common ways to add metadata to a document: RDFa and microformats.

Writing DSLs in Groovy

Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
Java,
Architecture

In this presentation recorded at QCon London 2009, after a short introduction to DSLs, Scott Davis plays with the keyboard showing how to approach the creation of a DSL by typing working snippets of Groovy code that get executed in front of the audience.

Real World Web Services

Topics
REST,
Web Services,
SOA

In this presentation, Scott Davis provides a pragmatic, down-to-earth introduction to Web services as used in the real world by public sites, including SOAP-based, REST and POX-style examples. While the buzzword density leaves nothing to be desired, the presentation contains a very accessible introduction to the core Web services standards.