Rolling out Appcelerator TUG India Chapter

Mohammed Khan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:50:22 +0000

Appcelerator TUG India

Over the last few weeks, I have been discussing the idea of community evangelism with folks at Appcelerator. It was quite clear from the discussions which I had with Jeff Haynie (CEO) and Scott Schwarzoff (VP – Marketing) that Appcelerator is all set to recognize the developers and community who leverage their Titanium platform and help them tune it according to the developer’s need. India, as a country has a large number of web developers, and my intention to get involved in discussions with Appcelerator was due to two reasons:

1. Firstly the Titanium platform is amazing, my first impression about it was, it can truly build Rich Unified Applications (RUA), though the hardware coverage is not that exhaustive but with insights from Appcelerator, seems like the next mobile platform they intend to cover can be BlackBerry. Also what is impressive is that within last 6 months, Appcelerator has extended Titanium support for 6 platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Web, iPhone and Android).

2. Secondly, as the web developer community in India is huge, and if they are provided with right support from Appcelerator, I am sure the Titanium platform can be put to use and build amazing social, enterprise and collaborative applications.

With that being said, feel free to join the Appcelerator Titanium User Group (TUG) India here. Learn and share your experiences with Titanium Platform, and if you require any further assistance, you can try to ping me (twitter or gmail) or reach out the Appcelerator team itself (over their IRC channel). We look forward to your participation and hope we build together an active community.

So lets connect and Code Strong.

WoW Titanium !!

Mohammed Khan — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:48:04 +0000

“What a day !!” was all I said yesterday when I was done testing the Appcelerator’s Titanium Platform for desktop and mobile. Also what made the whole engagement with platform exciting was, connecting with the people at Appcelerator, right from CEO (via Twitter) to Platform Lead (via IRC), these guys were easily accessible and made sure that a new developer like me gets the right introduced to the platform and all my doubts about the platform capabilities are cleared off. This speaks a lot about the leadership that prevails within the Appcelerator. Hats off to Jeff Haynie (CEO at Appcelerator), I am sure his journey from Atlanta to Mountain View has transformed the company to be more innovative. And even when you get started with Titanium, you will share the same opinion about Appecelrator.

Kitchen Sink App on Iphone using Titanium Mobile

Kitchen Sink App on Android using Titanium Mobile

For those of you who still don’t know what in the world Titanium is all about, then (no I am not gonna write about it here) visit their site here and if you are familiar with other RIA development tools like Adobe AIR/Flex, Curl and WPF, you will understand what Titanium can do with simple JavaScript. In short its a rich web, desktop and mobile development tool using JavaScript. What’s unique about it is that using same JavaScript code you can package the app for deploying it on Web, Desktop (Mac, Win, Linux) and Mobile (iPhone & Android). Isn’t that cool, and if you are a SI, I am sure it comes as blessing. No more writing code that is build differently for each platform. I am just wondering how would Enterprise computing would change with it (got to work on it) ?.

Also for ActionScript developers, it would be easy to adapt to Titanium platform as both ActionScript and JavaScript are based on the ECMAScript standards. In coming weeks I shall try to evaluate how Titanium can be fit for Enterprise solutions. Well for now, I think you should try out the platform yourself and think all about the possibilities of creating Rich Unified Applications. Go be a Titan !!

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Rolling out Appcelerator TUG India Chapter

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