Marko founded Marakana back in 2001 to help underprivileged youth, minorities, and inner-city kids learn web technologies and get ahead in life. So Marakana emerged with goal of helping people get better at what they do professionally, focused on open source software training.
Marko is the developer of Marakana Android Training series. He has taught Android for companies such as Sony-Ericsson, Qualcomm, Ericsson Canada, and many others. Marko is a co-founder of San Francisco Android Users Group and regularly teaches Android Bootcamp at Marakana.
Marko is author of upcoming Learning Android book published by O'Reilly Media. This book is based on Android Bootcamp and incorporates best learning practices for new developers to start creating applications for this exciting open source mobile platform.
In 2006 Marko Gargenta published "PHP and MySQL By Example", a collection on PHP examples. The book was published by Prentice Hall, world's largest technology publisher and has been also translated to Spanish.
Marko Gargenta obtained his Bachelor of Mathematics Degree from University of Waterloo (Canada's MIT) and has been developing in Java since 1996. He lives in San Francisco, California.
Speaking Engagements
- Open Source Conference (OSCON): Android for Java Developers on July 19, 2010, Portland, OR
- Snaptic: Android for Java Developers, May 27, SF, CA
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SF Bay Area Chapter May 1, 2010
- IEEE Computer Society "Android Night" on April 13, 2010
- Scandinavian Developer Conference 2010: Android for Java Developers, March 16, 2010, Gotheborg, Sweden
- SFAndroid: Learn about Android Internals and NDK, SF
- SFAgile: Scrum Overview at Microsoft, SF
- SFAndroid: Learn about Data Persistence in Android
- SFAndroid: Learn how to develop for Android, beyond the HelloWorld
- Software Development Forum, Mobile SIG: Android Overview
- Open Source Conference (OSCON): A 30000-foot View of the Android Platform
Marko's Interview on Android at OSCON 2010
Book by Marko: PHP and MySQL by Example (Prentice Hall)
Marko Gargenta the co-author of PHP and MySQL by Example, a by-example book published by Prentice Hall (world's largest tech publisher). Marko has been tinkering with the web since Mosaic browser hit the net in 1994. Marko is now a Zend Certified Engineer and instructor for most of the Zend PHP classes, with fine focus on advanced PHP topics such as Zend Framework. Marko is big on Agile development processes, eXtreme Programming, and is a Certified ScrumMaster. He's a frequent speaker at Bay Area users' groups, including SFAgile.org (which he runs), SFJava.org and SFAndroid.org (which he co-founded). Marko's PHP specialty is bringing grownup concepts such as OOP, Agile, and the design patterns to the PHP community. Marko's other specialties are Java and Android.
Android Meetup Group Organized by Marko
Marakana team organizes and runs the San Francisco Android Users' Group - an interactive group of Android developers. In our monthly meetings, we discuss Android landscape from both technology and business angles. We often have great presentations by industry experts, group discussions, as well as hands-on sessions. If you are in San Francisco Bay Area, we encourage you to join the group and meet other Android developers.
SDC 2010
Marko speaks at Scandinavian Developer Conference. Come by and say hi if you are in Göteborg.
Expertise
| Java | PHP | XML | Apache |
| JavaEE | Ajax | XSL | JavaScript |
| CSS | HTML | OOP | Objective-C |
| MySQL | SQL | AWT | Swing |
| Scrum Project Management | Agile | Android | Spark |
Upcoming Schedule
Marko Gargenta is scheduled to teach the following classes:
| Course | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Android™ Bootcamp | Oct 11 - Oct 15 | San Francisco |
| Advanced Android™ | Oct 14 - Oct 15 | San Francisco |
| Android™ Bootcamp | Nov 8 - Nov 12 | New York City |
| Android™ Internals | Nov 22 - Nov 23 | San Francisco |
| Android™ Bootcamp | Dec 13 - Dec 17 | San Francisco |
| Advanced Android™ | Dec 16 - Dec 17 | San Francisco |
| Android™ Bootcamp | Feb 14 - Feb 18 | San Francisco |
| Advanced Android™ | Feb 17 - Feb 18 | San Francisco |
| Android™ Internals | Feb 22 - Feb 23 | San Francisco |
| Intro to Android™ | Apr 18 - Apr 20 | San Francisco |
| Android™ Bootcamp | Apr 18 - Apr 22 | San Francisco |
| Advanced Android™ | Apr 21 - Apr 22 | San Francisco |
| Android™ Internals | May 16 - May 17 | San Francisco Downto... |
| Intro to Android™ | Jun 20 - Jun 22 | San Francisco |
| Android™ Bootcamp | Jun 20 - Jun 24 | San Francisco |
| Advanced Android™ | Jun 23 - Jun 24 | San Francisco |
| Intro to Android™ | Aug 15 - Aug 17 | San Francisco |
| Android™ Bootcamp | Aug 15 - Aug 19 | San Francisco |
| Advanced Android™ | Aug 18 - Aug 19 | San Francisco |
Classes in bold are guaranteed to run!
