mobile knife fighting automated ass
kicking

Thank you. • Chris, Laura
and Virgina • Guides. • Sponsors. • Beer! Amazing community. Honoured to be a part of it.

mobile dev

operating systems

sdks

devices

Unix Philosophy 101 • small
well defined tools • stdin stdout stderr • ‘pipable’ (think cmd line chaining) • works with text • worse is better

More Unix Philosophy • Small
is beautiful. • Make each program do one thing well. • Build a prototype as soon as possible. • Choose portability over efficiency. • Store data in flat text files. • Use software leverage to your advantage. • Use shell scripts to increase leverage and portability. • Avoid captive user interfaces. • Make every program a filter.

Unix Haters Handbook epic funny
shit. read it.

problem space • ios build
chain requires a bullshit ide • android is fairly open, baffling tho • webos tools are fantastic • blackberry, bada, wp7 and others are windows based...

Cordova • where I live
• also where I work • I’m out of names

Cordova • unix tools philosophy
for mobile project • works on os x • likely works on *nix • apparently can work on windows [see 1] 1.) I don’t care

what are we automating? •
create • build • debug • test • release • logging • emulation

why? • faster iteration •
unified nomenclature • hide the proprietary build sludge

IDE types will say... •
the ide protects you from bugs • the ide gets you closer to the platform • the ide has step debugging

HACK LIKE ITS 1972.

better • the ide protects
you from bugs • the ide is a leaky abstraction • the ide gets you closer to the platform • the ide locks you into the platform • the ide has step debugging • write fucking unit tests for chrissakes

don’t like writing unit tests?
thats ok.

demo time

thank you! • http://github.com/brianleroux/cordova •
@brianleroux on twitter