Add-on-Con Dec. 11 2008
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The Business of Building and Marketing Add-on's.

For the first time, on December 11th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla will come together to discuss the future of the browser platform. Learn from industry leaders about the technology and business of browser add-ons. Network with your peers. If you are serious about add-ons, then you need to be at Add-on-Con!

Date: December 11, 2008
Time: Breakfast 8:15 am
Keynote: 9:00 am
Place: Computer History Museum
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd
Mountain View, CA 94043
Cost: $150 (includes food and goodies)

Registrion link http://addoncon.eventbrite.com/

A portion of profits (if any) will be used
to purchase laptops for the One Laptop
Per Child organization. www.laptop.org

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Technical Session's
Time
Description

Presenter's

10:20 -11:00

From Firefox to IE: Writing Extensions that Work Cross-Browser
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If you have an existing Firefox extension that you want to port to IE to expand your audience, or if you are just getting started with development and want to re-use as much engineering effort as possible across browsers, this session is for you.  Drawn from experience helping scores of companies port their Firefox extensions to Internet Explorer, this session highlights the common problems encountered and best practices for making extensions that work on both browsers.  Building a full-featured add-on for Internet Explorer often means writing C++ code, and we’ll share some samples to get you quickly started on all of the most common tasks.  We will also discuss the overall architectural approaches that work best (and which don’t work so well) when designing an extension for cross-browser.

Joshua Allen
11:10 - 12:00

Add-ons and Mashup Development: How to Leverage 3rd Party APIs Effectively
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Mashups are a popular way for Web applications to leverage 3rd party services, creating new and distinct applications and services. Mashups can also be created in the browser using add-ons using many of the same techiques. With access to powerful APIs and personal/protected data sources, add-on based mashups can go beyond the capabilities of current web-based mashups.

Mark Finkle
1:20 - 2:00

Lessons Learned developing add-ons for multiple platforms
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When you develop a browser add-on, one of the first decisions is which browser to support first.  Speed of development favors Firefox, market share favors IE, and many add-ons find a natural market in Safari or Opera users.  Most casual developers opt for speed of development, and most never find reason to expand beyond a single platform.

Companies that develop add-ons, however, usually find themselves needing to support multiple platforms in order to meet their business objectives.  Difficulties abound, here, largely due to the wildly divergent development models, restrictions, skills, communities, and lore that developers must grok in order to create stable, effective, and performant add-ons for each platform.

This panel of experienced cross-browser add-on developers will share and discuss the epiphanies and pitfalls that they have encountered along the way.  Come hear the war-stories and take away the practical lessons that will save you from repeating them!

Moderator:
Peter Newcomb

Pannelist:
Karen Teng
Guillaume Thonier Mike Wertheim
Lloyd Hilaiel

2:10 - 300

Extending Internet Explorer 8
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Internet Explorer 8 offers a multitude of improvements and new features in its extensibility model.  These changes include modifications to the browser architecture as well as new scenarios for web service integration.  In this talk, developers will discover how to create and maintain powerful applications for Microsoft’s next generation internet platform.

  • Learn about the updated architecture and design of Internet Explorer 8
  • Extend existing web services with Accelerators, WebSlices, and Visual Search
  • Providers Address compatibility scenarios for ActiveX Controls, BHOs, and other binary extensions
  • Master best practices in constructing world-class applications
Matthew Crowley
3:10 - 4:00

5 Min. of Fame
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Andy Warhol once said everyone gets 15 minutes of fame, well at Add-on-Con, we want to help. We are going to take one of the technical sessions and let you set the conversation. This means any company that wants to sell an idea to the audience gets 3 minutes to present followed by 2 minutes of QA.

Moderator:
Robert Reich
     
Organized By:    
organizer
OneRiot AdaptiveBlue Sxipper