Building a Better Web
June 19–20, 2017: Training
June 20–22, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA
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Max Firtman

Max Firtman
Speaker, ITMaster Professional Training

Website | @firt

Maximiliano Firtman is a mobile and web developer, trainer, speaker, and writer. Max teaches mobile HTML5 and performance trainings for top companies around the world. The founder of ITMaster, an IT-training company, Max is a well-known professional in the mobile-web community, blogging about mobile-web platforms on Mobilexweb.com and keeping compatibility tables updated at Mobilehtml5.org. He has written many books, including Programming the Mobile Web (available in a second edition) and the recent High Performance Mobile Web, published by O’Reilly Media. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, including QCon, Mobilism, OSCON, Velocity, Fluent, Google Developer Day, JSConf, GOTO, AdobeCamp, and many other events around the world. Max has been widely recognized for his work in the mobile-web community by Adobe Community Professional, Microsoft IE User Agent, Nokia Developer Champion, BlackBerry Elite, and more.

Sessions

9:00am - 5:00pm Monday, June 19 & Tuesday, June 20
Cross-Platform and Mobile
Location: 212 A/B
Max Firtman (ITMaster Professional Training)
Average rating: ****.
(4.53, 19 ratings)
Join expert Maximiliano Firtman for a hands-on, in-depth exploration of progressive web apps (PWAs). You’ll gain insight into creating PWAs with the modern APIs for mobile and desktop platforms, including app installation and distribution, offline access, push notifications, web performance, and hardware access. Read more.
2:10pm–2:25pm Thursday, June 22, 2017
Location: Grand Ballroom 220
Max Firtman (ITMaster Professional Training)
Average rating: ****.
(4.89, 9 ratings)
Is it better or easier to work on the web today, 20+ years after its creation? What lessons have we learned—and what are we still doing wrong? Max Firtman explains why, after years of adding layers of complexity to the frontend, especially in relation to layout, compatibility, and performance issues, it makes sense to go back to the roots of the web. Read more.