Hi! I'm Maximiliano -If you speak English, maybe Max is better for you ;)-. I work in mobile and web 2.0 development from different approaches: development & private consulting, book writing, training and public speaking. I'm Nokia Developer Champion since 2006 and Adobe Community Champion since 2011, I'm the author of the book Programming the Mobile Web and jQuery Mobile: Up & Running, both published by O'Reilly Media (no, I don't choose the animals on the cover). I've also written some other books in Spanish distributed in Latin America and Spain, such as AJAX, Web 2.0 para profesionales. I'm also a Nokia Certified Trainer in mobile technologies and I've been doing training for Marakana, video2brain and ITMaster Professional Training. You can follow me on twitter at @firt.

Today my focus is on HTML5, CSS3, mobile web, multiplatform hybrid development and WPO (Web Performance Optimization). I've started a blog in 2010 about mobile web development with quite good success finding new abilities on devices (such as the accelerometer API in iOS) and creating the most complete mobile emulator guide up to now. I've also launched the free service Mobile Tiny URL for easy URL typing on mobile devices. During September 2011 I've also created a new project Mobile HTML5, a compatibility table of every mobile platform and its HTML5 support.

I've founded two user groups: ARFUG -official Adobe User Group- and Mobile Argentina; and I've organized lot of events in the last years, including MobileCamp and Adobe en Vivo Argentina. I do many public speaking appearences in United States (Velocity, OSCON, Breaking Development, Nokia Talk), in Europe (such as goto conference;, Campus Party, Adobe Lite Days) and in Latin America (such as Adobe en Vivo, MobileCamp, BarCamp).

I'm based in Buenos Aires -Argentina- and I've been doing web development in 1995 using edit from the DOS command-line and I've started with mobile development in 2000 (just after Y2K) creating apps in WML for the first mobile browsers, followed by a infinite serie of native languages and platforms: Palm OS, Java ME, Windows Mobile, Symbian, iPhone/iOS, Android, Flash platform, BlackBerry, Windows Phone& the list continues.

In more than 15 years working as a professional, I've founded several companies including Netace studio -a web design & development company-, Entupalma -currently my mobile development company- and ITMaster Professional Training. I've created some other mobile projects, including MobileDevSearch, Truco -the first multiplayer Java ME in the region-, Como Voy -a public transport guide for Nokia devices-, Widgen -a mobile widget generator-. In the beginning of this millenium, I've worked on some TV shows in Argentina about Internet and programming, including Webmasters TV. During several years I've also worked for a printed magazine for developers -.CODE- writing articles, doing technical review, doing interviews and defining summaries and hot topics.

I've graduated from CAECE University in a Computer System degree, after graduating from ORT Institute as analyst. I've also studied some years in Buenos Aires University in Computer Science. I've worked for some universities as a professor, including UTN University -National Technological University-, ITMaster Professional Training, and Image Campus (professor & training director).

I've received the following awards and honors from the community:

• Adobe Community Champion, in 2011, a recognition program to top worldwide professionals working for the community
• Public Recognition from Google at DevFest 2010 as one of the top developers in the region
• Nokia Developer Champion (formerly Forum Nokia Champion), in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 & 2012, a recognition program to top worldwide mobile developers
• Finalist of Sadosky 2007, a prize in Argentina for intelligence applied to IT.
• MIDP Programming Challenge (3P) for the game Truco in 2003 organized by Nokia and ITBA University.
• Best Speaker in ExpoInternet 2001
• Gold @, for an institutional website in 1997

Here you will find some interviews to myself and some random videos & articles found on the web.

• Forum Nokia Developer Interview (in English) - YouTube
• Appliness #1: interview, cover article. PDF - iPad / Android tablet version
• Mobile HTML5 conference video at GOTO Aarhus, Denmark
• 5 free minutes from my Velocity 2010 talk in Santa Clara
• Adobe en Vivo Interview (in Spanish) - YouTube
• Maestros del Web Interview (in Spanish) - YouTube
• Revolucion.mobi Interview (in Spanish) - YouTube
• Android training @ video2brain Trailer (in Spanish) - YouTube
• Random chapter of my iOS training @ video2brain (in Spanish) - YouTube
• Random chapter of my Android training @ video2brain (in Spanish) - YouTube
• Amateur talk recordings from YouTube: BarCamp 2010 - Café Digital Paraguay
• My Slideshare presentations

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