My "live" blog of #io14.
Here's a document that gives a summary of what was announced. This results from
not only my own viewing, but compiling what was talked about across many sources.
Below are the videos I actually watched with ratings and notes.
Must See:
KeynotePolymer and Web Components change everything you know about Web development
Unlock the next era of UI development with Polymer
Developing across Devices - Chrome DevTools in 2014
Very important information, so-so presentation.
Very important information, so-so presentation.
What's new in Android
Material witness: How Android material applications work
This is MD for Android.
(I'm sure there are many more Android must see's but I'm not really interested.)
Good:
Making Music with the Web Platform (A "Must See" if you like Music.)
Building a NaCl app
Fine:
Fabulous Forms for the multi-device web
This one really ought to be in the Must See/Good category, but the puppet is more than annoying and makes it difficult to understand the material. Worse, it refers to users as "monsters". As a long time Unix/Linux systems admin/programmer... I abhorred the community referring to users as "lusers" (pronounced "losers"). "Monster" is perhaps even more abhorrent - even though here I'm sure it was meant in fun.
This one really ought to be in the Must See/Good category, but the puppet is more than annoying and makes it difficult to understand the material. Worse, it refers to users as "monsters". As a long time Unix/Linux systems admin/programmer... I abhorred the community referring to users as "lusers" (pronounced "losers"). "Monster" is perhaps even more abhorrent - even though here I'm sure it was meant in fun.
The ART runtime
Didn't Like:
Building node.js applications with App Engine and Custom Runtimes
Why? Not much information about an App Engine feature that barely exists.
Containerizing the Cloud with Docker on Google Cloud Platform
This one is more detailed. But why do I want to complicate Docker with Google? Why would I run node.js on Google, when Joyent specializes in it?
How we built Chrome Dev Editor with the Chrome platform
Why?
Why? Not much information about an App Engine feature that barely exists.
Containerizing the Cloud with Docker on Google Cloud Platform
This one is more detailed. But why do I want to complicate Docker with Google? Why would I run node.js on Google, when Joyent specializes in it?
How we built Chrome Dev Editor with the Chrome platform
Why?
- They make it look like they are developing that quickly... it's easy to hook up components that you've already created.
- Actually use the Chrome Dev Editor to create a hello world Dart app... it is hideous. Slow and bloated. The truth is that CDE is the clearest example I've seen that Dart is not ready for building real world applications.
Why? I find the arm twisting of users to use apps in the search results to be one the most obnoxious things Google has done. Android apps have far more access to your information than web pages do... this will only lead to abuse. One also has to wonder what's in this for Google.
