Portland Code Camp is this Saturday, May 30th at Reed College. It’s a free, one-day community-driven conference for developers working on all platforms, programming languages and disciplines. I am attending Portland Code Camp and looking forward to participating in the mobile sessions!

The tentative Portland Code Camp schedule (pdf) was just released. There are a wide variety of sessions about mobile, desktop and server development.

I am presenting two sessions at Code Camp. Here are the slides from each presentation.

Smartphone Behavior on a Featurephone Budget using Java ME. 10:45am – 12pm in Vollum 120. We explore using the Java ME API to produce application features generally seen only on smartphones. It’s a preview of my JavaOne BoF to be presented the following week.

A Standards-Based Approach to Mobile Web Development. 3pm – 4:15pm in Psych 201. We discuss a standards-based approach to mobile web development that produces a usable, adaptive and discoverable mobile web experience for featurephones and smartphones.

Come by and check out my talk at JavaOne 2009 in San Francisco on Wednesday June 3rd. I’m presenting Java ME code samples and cool featurephone demos of mobile application features typically seen only on smartphones.

Smart Phone Behavior on a Feature Phone Budget, Using Java™ Platform, Micro Edition

• Session ID: BOF-6265
• Presenter: Gail Rahn Frederick
• Date: Wednesday, June 03 7:45 PM – 8:35 PM

Mobile application features typical in smart phones can also be implemented on mass-market feature phones by use of Java™ Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME platform) and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE platform) technology-based back-end services. This BoF explores the multimodality and rich user interface of a search-driven ODP application written in the Java ME programming language and broadly ported to mass-market feature phones. Multimodality enables users to search, browse, and discover by using familiar activities on a mobile device: saying a phrase, entering text, or snapping a photo.

The presentation includes demos of Java ME technology-based feature phone devices for voice recording, image capture, location awareness, and advanced mapping functionality in a modern mobile search application. It also presents and analyzes snippets of Java ME code used to implement voice recording, image capture, location awareness, and advanced mapping.

Here are my presentation slides for JavaOne 2009: