Web Directions

George Oates and Paul Hammond — Web Apps: Developer to Designer

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• By:jessie
• January 19, 2008
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A pre­sen­ta­tion given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 8, 2007.

• Session descrip­tion
• About George Oates
• About Paul Hammon

Session descrip­tion

Web apps are an inti­mate mar­riage of back-​​end sys­tems and client-​​side inter­ac­tion, but it takes two very dif­fer­ent skill sets to build robust scal­able appli­ca­tion plat­forms and cre­ate smooth user inter­faces that work in mul­ti­ple browsers.

In this ses­sion, George Oates and Paul Hammond con­sider the devel­op­ment process from the per­spec­tive of both back– and front-​​end devel­op­ers, and the coop­er­a­tion required between them. They’ll dis­cuss how sim­ple archi­tec­ture choices, devel­op­ment pat­terns and  —  above all  —  good com­mu­ni­ca­tion are key to mak­ing the rela­tion­ship work.

About Paul Hammond

Paul Hammond is a web devel­oper, prod­uct man­ager and father. He has been build­ing web­sites for as long as he can remem­ber, and is now part of the Yahoo! Technology Development group. Before that he led tech­ni­cal project man­age­ment at BBC Radio and Music interactive.

Paul reg­u­larly speaks on sub­jects from javascript and APIs to the future of broad­cast­ing, at events includ­ing Emerging Technology, d.Construct and xtech. He is cur­rently liv­ing some­where between London and San Francisco, and keeps a tech­ni­cal weblog at paul​ham​mond​.org.

About George Oates

George Oates joined a com­pany called Ludicorp back in the mid­dle of 2003, hav­ing moved from Australia, where she had enjoyed a suc­cess­ful career in the web indus­try. At the time, Ludicorp was mak­ing a hilar­i­ous online game called Game Neverending and George jumped in, help­ing design game ele­ments, the GNE uni­verse, and how play­ers interacted.

It wasn’t long before Ludicorp shifted gears some­what and decided to enter the photo-​​sharing space. We were all torn between want­ing to keep doing fun game things and the need for money. So, we man­aged to find a way to blend the two, and Flickr was born!