This document discusses automating a mobile development workflow using Unix philosophy and tools. It proposes building prototypes quickly, making tools that do one thing well, and avoiding proprietary IDEs. Cordova is presented as a way to work on mobile projects using Unix tools and philosophies. The document concludes by offering a demo.

1. mobile knife fighting
automated ass kicking

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

3. mobile dev

4. operating systems

5. sdks

6. devices

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

9. 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.

10. Unix Haters Handbook
epic funny shit. read it.

11. 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...

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

14. 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

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

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

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

19. HACK LIKE ITS 1972.

20. 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

21. don’t like writing unit
tests? thats ok.

22. demo time

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