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Tell us a little bit about yourself!

My name is Ali Spivak and I’ve been at Mozilla since May of 2012 and this is my first MWC. I’m excited to be helping showcase Mozilla, the open web, and Firefox OS to mobile developers at the show!

What do you do at Mozilla?

I am the Product Manager for the Mozilla Developer Network.

What does Mozilla have in store this year at MWC?

Monday, 25 February, 16:00–17:30:  Apps Panel: Evolving Ecosystems -  Jay Sullivan, VP of Products, Mozilla

Monday, 25 February, 16:00–17:30 @ Sala Apolo, Barcelona: Mobile Premier Awards Keynote - Rick Fant, VP Apps and Marketplace

Tuesday, 26 February, 09:00–10:30: Mozilla Keynote by Gary Kovacs, CEO, Mozilla

Tuesday, 26 February, 17.45-18.30: MWL Keynote Panel: Open Web to Mobile Devices by Mitchell Baker

Thursday, 28 February,  13:30 -14:45: Workshop @ WIPJam: Why Open Web Apps & Firefox OS are good for mobile developers - Brendan Eich & Robert Nyman

Where can we find you?

The Mozilla booth...

Some WIPsters have now landed in Barcelona (weather forecast thus far: rain), and with that, we're happy to announce that our 5th Annual Developer Survival Guide is now available to download! There's a lot to cover at Mobile World Congress and we have all the best panels, events, and parties all highlighted for you!

We also have all those same parties and events covered in our relaunched WIPJam app, now available on iOS and Android!

We'll also be handing out paper versions on site, so just ping us on Twitter to find out where we're at!

Who is Frank Fischer?

I would call myself an old-school geek. My first computer was a Commodore PET. I developed software for trains and nuclear power plants as well as large scale systems. Together with a friend, I developed a motherboard and ported Linux on it. It had the chance to become today's Arduino, well, if the CPU would still be in production Today, I sniff around stuff like Node.js, CouchDB, WebAPIs...

What do you do at Deutsche Telekom’s Developer Garden?

My team is responsible for the technology behind Developer Garden. So, we do the architecture, development, roll out, operation, and support of offerings like Telekom Tropo API. Beside this, we have three evangelists (maybe, me as half an evangelist on top) to carry the good news into the world. Well, and is my pleasure to call myself captain of this world-class team.

What does Developer Garden have in store this year at MWC?

I think we have lots to show which is of particular interest for developers. We as...

Tell us a little bit about yourself!

My name is Wai Seto. I work in the Nokia Developer Relations team as technical marketing manager and have been in this role since 2008. Before that, I was a Nokia Technical Expert and Software Architect in the games division.

My name is Janaina Pilomia - more marketing than technical if you compare me to Seto, although I did some programming in my early days. This is my fourth WIPJam @ MWC, and I’m super excited about it!

What do you do at Nokia?

Seto: In my current role, I communicate our latest developer tools and programs to our developers who are interested in working with Nokia. My current technology focus is Mobile Web, HERE JavaScript API, and Series 40 web apps development.

Janaina: I support our local teams in their events and the many other developer outreach activities they do.

What does Nokia have in store this year at MWC?

On Monday (February 25), we’ll have an all-day App Developer Conference with a different format...

Tell us a little bit about yourself!

I’m Simon, and I work on Facebook’s mobile APIs and SDKs. I’ve been at Facebook for 2 ½ years so I’ve been there through the launch of timeline and the launch of our tools for iOS and Android developers. When I’m not building stuff, I’m a proper audio geek, and play the drums in a band, The Poor Souls of Pompeii.

What do you do at Facebook?

My team works with mobile developers across the world to build awesome mobile, social apps using Facebook’s platform. We write docs, we make videos, we speak at events and, critically, we write software to help developers be successful with Facebook. This includes both sample apps that thousands of developers use to get started with Facebook, and tools like Facebook’s Graph API Explorer (which I worked on) that make it easy to understand how our platform works.

What does Facebook have in store this year at MWC?

We’ve been hard at work over the last 9 months to totally revamp our SDKs and products for...

We're pleased to announce that our 4th Annual Developer Survival Guide is now available to download! There's a lot to cover at Mobile World Congress and we have all the best panels, events, and parties all highlighted for you!

On top of that, it's also our 5th year hosting WIPJam so we've learned a couple of tricks along the way that are also shared within the guide.

If you're more of a paper-kinda person, you will be also be able to pick up a physical copy at our sponsors' booths.

One of our biggest tips for first time MWCers is to bring a pair of comfortable shoes. Regardless of whether you're rocking crocs with socks or gucci loafers, by Thursday you'll be ready to give your feet a rest and compete for some great prizes with some coding! There are 3 hackathons at WIPJam that you can attend, each with their own twist, so choose to your strength and win some great prizes!

Best AppUp App for Windows - sponsored by Intel

How to Win:

Create a new app, or port your existing application to Windows to be sold through the Intel AppUp center – your Application needs to be submitted to the Store but due to time constraints, validation is not required

Prizes:

1st place: 1.000,00€ Amazon Voucher
2nd place: 750,00€ Amazon Voucher
3rd place: 500,00€ Amazon Voucher
ASUS UX31E Ultrabook will be raffled amongst all individual developers talking part in the Intel AppUp category

Full Details:

Intel AppUp Hackathon

Best Use of the Nokia Location...

With Mobile World Congress right around the corner, there's no doubt that some of you have already thought about joining a hackathon or two during your time there. While coding for the sake of coding can be fun, it's probably even more fun if you win so we reached out to Peter Lindgren, CEO of VISIARC, and recent hackathon winner at last year's Nokia World: 

First of all, tell us a little bit about VISIARC.

VISIARC is a mobile cloud company that specializes in mobile documents or more specifically email, attachments and documents. Traditionally, we focus on enterprise and productivity.

You recently took home first prize for your app 'Duudle' at Nokia World's Hackathon. Can you tell us a little bit about Duudle?

Duudle is a multiplayer, turn and skill based game. The game play is original in the sense that it hasn't really been done before, yet its' actually quite straight-forward. You get a word, then you get 30 seconds to 'duudle'. Your duudle is then pushed to all...

Recently at MWC2011 we had one of our classic WIPJam discussion groups. Thanks again to all the discussion leaders and here are a few interesting notes and takeaways from those discussions.

HTML5

• HTML5 still has a long ways to go in terms of its own evolution and growth
• 2 big positives that HTML5 will offer is the speed of development and it will help solve cross platform problems
• Currently there is a lot that hinders HTML5, everything from performance to battery life
• More specifically a few of the issues include Geolocation, SQL storage and there are issues with fragmentation using tools like Modernizr, Has.js, Device Atlas and WURFL. 

Cross Platform Development

With so many platforms to address now do you have to provide less functionality to your app to ensure a successful port?

This is one of the major concerns when it comes to developing across platforms, along with the learning curve each platform requires. When it comes down to it there is not...