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Are you ready to up the ante for your PhoneGap apps?

Then don’t miss Advanced PhoneGap training online on July 8th, 2010 from 10 am to 1 pm PT. During this online session, you’ll learn everything you need to know to build complex, cross platform mobile apps with advanced GUIs and functionality using the PhoneGap open source framework.

You’ll learn how to:

• Extend PhoneGap and work with plug-ins
• Dive deep into mobile JavaScript to build complex apps
• Work with XUI
• Take your PhoneGap apps offline
• Work with GitHub and contribute back to the PhoneGap project.

Advanced PhoneGap Training - Online
Thursday July 8th, 10 am - 1 pm PT
Cost: $99
Register now

We hope you’ll join us for this informative session! Find out more about what you’ll learn at Advanced PhoneGap training.

As the calendar flips over to April, we’re stoked about some of the things Nitobi is up to this month. For starters, we’ll be at JSConf in Washington DC from April 17-18, 2010. If you haven’t been to JSConf you’re missing out on one of the best JavaScript programming events of the year. It’s sold out this year-likely because the theme is pirates-but be sure to put it on your calendar for 2011.

While we’re at JSConf, we’ll be connecting with the good people of Washington DC for a PhoneGap training session. We’ve been having a great time spreading the PhoneGap love across North America and we hope you’ll join us for this full-day workshop on April 16, 2010. You’ll learn how to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of core features of the Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian and Palm.

The Latham Hotel, 3000 M Street NW
Washington DC
April 16, 2010
9:30 am - 4:30 pm

Register today for the Washington DC PhoneGap Training Workshop.

See you in the Capital!

In 2009, we taught in-person PhoneGap training sessions in San Francisco, Vancouver and New York. We also heard from PhoneGap users who couldn’t attend our classes and wanted an online alternative.

We’re happy to oblige-we’ve scheduled two online PhoneGap webinars for later this month. We’re offering an introductory session and an advanced class. Each course is three hours in duration and will be taught by the Nitobi developers who created PhoneGap. Here are the details:

Mobile App Development with PhoneGap - Introductory Course

In this hands-on tutorial you’ll discover how to use your HTML/JavaScript skills to build applications for mobile platforms including iPhone, Google Android, Blackberry, Symbian and Palm. Learn how to use PhoneGap to create platform-neutral mobile applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Get the tools and experience you need to build app store ready mobile applications.

January 21, 2010
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, PST
Cost: $99 USD
For more information and to register, click here.

Mobile App Development with PhoneGap - Advanced Course

Are you ready to take your PhoneGap apps to the next level? In this advanced mobile app development training workshop, you’ll learn how to:

• Extend PhoneGap and work with plugins
• Dive deep into mobile JavaScript to build complex apps
• Work with XUI
• Take your PhoneGap apps offline
• Work with GitHub and contribute back to the PhoneGap project.

At the end of this PhoneGap master class, you will have all the knowledge to build complex, cross-platform mobile apps with advanced GUIs and functionality using the PhoneGap open source framework.

January 28, 2010
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM, PST
Cost: $99 USD
Fore more information and to register, click here

Brian Leroux and Brock Whitten will be in San Jose this Sunday March 1st at the 360|iDev. They’ll be giving a full day seminar on PhoneGap starting with the basics in the morning and helping you build your own iPhone Apps and working on the framework in the afternoon.

What you will learn:

* How to get started building PhoneGap applications
* An overview of Objective-C, Javascript API and XUI framework
* How to overcome barriers to cross-device development
* How to build applications for web-enabled devices with open standards
* How to test and deploy an application to a mobile device
* How to quickly and easily convert web applications to a native mobile app
* Differences in capabilities across devices
* How to retrofit existing web applications to utilize phone features

For more info on 360|iDev or to register go here.

“Herman Wong will be presenting on PureMVC. PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications based upon the classic Model, View and Controller concept. Herman is a Flex / Air Developer for Nitobi.”

The event is Thursday at WorkSpace in Vancouver. Go here to register.

Just saw this course posted online. I wish I was in NY so I could go.
Ineraction design for RIAs.
Some problems you will be able to solve when done with this class:

1. You will work on the redesign of a mission-critical financial services application to be rolled out to 6,000 financial consultants. The previous system was deployed as a desktop installed application using .NET services. You are tasked with redesigning it to work within a web browser. What is the right set of technologies to consider? What are the differences? How do I and should I replicate the behaviors of the desktop application in this new medium? What pitfalls should I be aware of when working on my design?
2. You are hired to design a hotel reservation system for the latest brand hotel to come from a major hospitality organization famous for top tier service. What advantages are there in using RIA behaviors and technologies to help enhance this new brand? What can go wrong to cause a backlash effect?

David Malouf is the instructor and is a very skilled interaction who’s well respected in the community and an active member of IXDA list. Hey David want to make a trip to Vancouver to put this course on here too? The weather is nice in summer:)