The Taking Notes Podcast

   
Taking Notes Episode 139: 2011.09.08 - Interview with Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie 9.8.2011
On this show we talk with the CEO of Appcelerator Jeff Haynie. You may have heard of Appcelerators' Titanium development platform.

"Titanium makes cross-platform native application development easy. A free and open source application development platform, Titanium lets you create native mobile, tablet and desktop application experiences using existing web skills like Javascript, HTML, CSS, Python, Ruby, and PHP."

We talk with Jeff about:
  • Who is Jeff Haynie and how did Appcelerator get started.
  • How the Titanium product has evolved over time.
  • That time in history when Steve Jobs said that developers could only use XCode to develop native apps for all "iThings".
  • How someone can get started with Titanium.
  • What products and services Appcelerator offers.
  • Where you can download Titanium.
  • What the differences are between the community and paid versions of Titanium.
  • The upcoming "Code Strong" Appcelerator Developer conference and "hackathon" being held in San Francisco September 18-20..
  • and much more...
The podcast runs 29:43.