Technology is fascinating, but should this be what's driving us? What are the things you can do to differentiate yourself today? With all that noise, what are things you should be looking at? In this talk we will look at the different technologies available today to build amazing experiences and what's coming tomorrow. We will focus on the importance of learning, crafting and getting out of your comfort zone and most importantly, never be religious about a technology.

1. Technology, a means to an end.
Thibault Imbert | Group Product Manager, Adobe Web Platform
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2. Who is this guy?
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3. Who is this guy?
10
PRINT
"Hello
World!"
20
GOTO
10
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4. Who is this guy?
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5. Who is this guy?
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6. Who is this guy?
Agency developer
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7. Who is this guy?
Deadlines
Agency developer
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8. Who is this guy?
Deadlines
Agency developer
2004-2005
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9. Who is this guy?
Deadlines
Agency developer
2004-2005
Lille
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10. Who is this guy?
Deadlines
Agency developer
2004-2005
Lille
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Teacher

11. Who is this guy?
Deadlines
Share/Learn
Agency developer
Teacher
2004-2005
Lille
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12. Who is this guy?
Deadlines
Share/Learn
Agency developer
Teacher
2004-2005
2005-2008
Lille
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13. Who is this guy?
Deadlines
Share/Learn
Agency developer
Teacher
2004-2005
2005-2008
Lille
Paris
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14. Who is this guy?
Deadlines
Share/Learn
Agency developer
Teacher
2004-2005
2005-2008
Lille
Paris
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Sales Engineer

15. Who is this guy?
Deadlines
Share/Learn
Technical sales
Agency developer
Teacher
Sales Engineer
2004-2005
2005-2008
Lille
Paris
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16. Who is this guy?
Deadlines
Share/Learn
Technical sales
Agency developer
Teacher
Sales Engineer
2004-2005
2005-2008
2008-2010
Lille
Paris
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17. Who is this guy?
Deadlines
Share/Learn
Technical sales
Agency developer
Teacher
Sales Engineer
2004-2005
2005-2008
2008-2010
Lille
Paris
Paris
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18. Who is this guy?
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19. Who is this guy?
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20. Who is this guy?
Product Manager
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21. Who is this guy?
Learning
Product Manager
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22. Who is this guy?
Learning
Product Manager
2010-2011
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23. Who is this guy?
Learning
Product Manager
2010-2011
San Francisco
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24. Who is this guy?
Learning
Product Manager Sr. Product Manager
2010-2011
San Francisco
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25. Who is this guy?
Learning
Learning
Product Manager Sr. Product Manager
2010-2011
San Francisco
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26. Who is this guy?
Learning
Learning
Product Manager Sr. Product Manager
2010-2011
San Francisco
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2011-2013

27. Who is this guy?
Learning
Learning
Product Manager Sr. Product Manager
2010-2011
2011-2013
San Francisco
San Francisco
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28. Who is this guy?
Learning
Learning
Product Manager Sr. Product Manager Group Product Manager
2010-2011
2011-2013
San Francisco
San Francisco
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29. Who is this guy?
Learning
Learning
Learning
Product Manager Sr. Product Manager Group Product Manager
2010-2011
2011-2013
San Francisco
San Francisco
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30. Who is this guy?
Learning
Learning
Learning
Product Manager Sr. Product Manager Group Product Manager
2010-2011
2011-2013
San Francisco
San Francisco
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2013

31. Who is this guy?
Learning
Learning
Learning
Product Manager Sr. Product Manager Group Product Manager
2010-2011
2011-2013
2013
San Francisco
San Francisco
San Francisco
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32. Moving the web forward
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36. Job done.
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37. justinjackson.ca/words.html
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38. Technology, to serve a goal.
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39. Focus on this goal.
Implementation is a detail.
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41. Flash
DHTML!
Don’t be religious
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42. Flash
Ajax!
Don’t be religious
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43. Flash
Silverlight!
Don’t be religious
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44. HTML/JS!
Native!
Don’t be religious
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45. Technologies, come and go.
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47. There are safe bets.
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48. There are safe bets.
But you want to differentiate.
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50. Don’t place a technology.
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51. Don’t place a technology.
Use the best one to do the job.
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52. Don’t place a technology.
Use the best one to do the job.
Probably one you don’t know (and that’s good).
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53. Don’t place a technology.
Use the best one to do the job.
Probably one you don’t know (and that’s good).
You want to keep learning.
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54. Preconceived ideas.
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55. A few examples.
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56. JavaScript is for “scripting” only.
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58. asmjs.org
an extraordinarily optimizable, low-level subset of JavaScript
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59. JavaScript is not object-oriented.
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60. ES6
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61. //
entities.js
module
entities
{
export
class
Person
{
private
message
=
"Hi
my
name
is
";
constructor
(public
name,
public
age,
public
town){
this.name
=
name;
this.age
-­‐
age;
this.town
=
town;
}
talk(){
return
this.message
+
this.name;
}
get
isAbove18(){
return
this.age
>=
18;
}
}
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62. But what if I want static-typing?
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63. www.typescriptlang.org
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64. //
entities.js
module
entities
{
export
class
Person
{
private
message
:string
=
"Hi
my
name
is
";
constructor
(public
name:
string,
public
age:
number,
public
town:
string){
this.name
=
name;
this.age
-­‐
age;
this.town
=
town;
}
talk(){
return
this.message
+
this.name;
}
get
isAbove18(){
return
this.age
>=
18;
}
}
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65. Which will generate plain ES5 compatible JS.
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66. var
Person
=
(function
()
{
function
Person(name,
age,
town)
{
this.name
=
name;
this.age
=
age;
this.town
=
town;
this.message
=
"Hi
my
name
is
";
this.name
=
name;
this.age
-­‐
age;
this.town
=
town;
}
Person.prototype.talk
=
function
()
{
return
this.message
+
this.name;
};
Object.defineProperty(Person.prototype,
"isAbove18",
{
get:
function
()
{
return
this.age
>=
18;
},
enumerable:
true,
configurable:
true
});
return
Person;
})();
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67. C# is for Windows only.
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72. And for apps?
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73. Xamarin
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75. C++ is way too low-level.
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76. C++11
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77. #include
"stdafx.h"
#include
<stdint.h>
#include
<iostream>
#include
<vector>
#include
<algorithm>
int
_tmain(int
argc,
_TCHAR*
argv[])
{
std::vector<uint32_t>
data
=
{
234,
76767,
43,
343,
4322,
33,
122
};
std::sort(data.begin(),
data.end(),
[]
(uint32_t
a,
uint32_t
b)
{
return
a
<
b;
});
for
(auto
i
=
data.begin();
i
<
data.end();
i++)
{
std::cout
<<
*i
<<
std::endl;
}
class
MyClass
{
public:
MyClass(size_t
size)
:
m_size(size)
{
}
MyClass(const
char
*str)
:
MyClass(strlen(str))
{
}
size_t
Size()
{
return
m_size;
}
private:
size_t
m_size;
};
MyClass
obj("Hello!");
std::cout
<<
obj.Size()
<<
std::endl;
return
0;
}
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78. You can’t develop an iOS/Android app
with a functional programming
language.
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79. Have a look at F#
Functional programming language on .NET
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80. Multicore and web apps? No way.
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81. &
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82. River Trail
bit.ly/qme8BY
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83. myPA
=
[1,
2,
3];
//
incrementation
is
parallelized
on
the
GPU
myPlusPA
=
myPA.mapPar(val
=>
val
+
1);
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85. http://codemash.org/
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86. Writing to learn.
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87. If you can explain it, you got it.
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88. You don’t have to write a book.
But the commitment is big (that’s good!).
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89. Share what you know (blog, Twitter).
Code in the open (contribute and share).
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90. sourcing.io
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92. What other things can you do?
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93. I cook.
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94. Persevere.
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97. Reward.
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98. Commit, persevere, and enjoy the process.
It needs to become a routine.
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99. Success is not an event, it is a process.
James Clear.
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100. Thank you!
@thibault_imbert
timbert@adobe.com
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