SenchaCon 2011: Day 1

I’m here in sunny Austin, Texas at SenchaCon 2011 where I’ll be posting highlights each day this week.

Today they kicked things off with the welcome reception, where I got a chance to talk with a bunch of other developers from all over the world. England, the Czech Republic, and a half dozen US states were represented &emdash; just in the people I managed to see before the beer stopped flowing! I overheard that some people travelled for 25 hours to get here, which I find incredible.

Everyone was very positive about their experiences with Sencha. Many, like myself, have only used it once or twice and are here to find out more. So, this should be a learning experience for everyone.

I’ll be sticking mostly to the Javascript track because I think that’s the most relevant to Macadamian. Tomorrow, I plan on attending:

• Keynote
• Introducing Sencha Touch 2
• Introducing Designer 2 (though I’m split between that and Hacking WebKit)
• The Sencha Class System
• MVC In Depth (both parts)
• Using Node.js with Sencha Technologies
• Introducing Sencha.io

Should be fun!