Professional development for CeCC programmers

30 July 2010

Paul Feely and Scott Limmer attended this years Google DevFest Conference in Sydney in July to learn more about social media and geographical mapping services.  

DevFest is an annual event run by Google and held in cities around the world.  The events provide an opportunity to learn more about Google technologies and developer products, meet developer advocates and engineers, and network with technicians and programmers. 

The ‘social’ conference covered open and social web and technologies which provide the foundation for social web infrastructure.  Given many of CeCC’s clients are now wanting to take advantage of social media opportunities, CeCC can now implement some of the new technologies learned from DevFest such as GoogleBuzz, which can extract comments from feeds such as Facebook. 

The ‘web’ conference focussed on Google Maps APIs, latest features, porting map sites from v2 to v3, customising maps, and creating maps for desktop and mobile.  CeCC will be able to implement efficiencies for those clients who use the Google Maps feature on their websites.