Chris boyd founded apptitude, a mobile app design and development studio, in 2012. His company helps companies, entrepreneurs and nonprofits launch apps for ios, android, and the web. Chris has been building applications for over ten years for companies such as continental airlines, wordpress, and hearst corporation. His favorite tools are objective-c, ruby on rails, and javascript.

2. Who am I?
● Chris Boyd, Founder at Apptitude.
● We make apps for iPhone, iPad, Android,
and the Web.
● Started company in 2012, NOLAbound.
● Companies + orgs with large projects that
don't want or need full time developers.
apptitudenola.com
@chrisboyddotnet
@apptitudenola

3. Houston Zoo’s Mission
• Be a zoo for all
• Deliver an outstanding guest experience
• Promote conservation awareness and
action
• Inspire broad community support
houstonzoo.org

4. Houston Zoo Kids!
● 2D seek-and-find game for ages 4-10.
● Cross-country team: Illustrator, designer,
developer, QA, stakeholders.
● Required: Desktop support for classrooms.
● 100% HTML5, CSS, JS.
● Several awesome plugins:
○ Stellar.js
○ jPlayer
○ Spritely.net kids.houstonzoo.org

5. Stellar.js
● Super easy parallaxing. [demo]
● Just separate your layers, give them a
background-ratio, and presto!
● This is the JS: $.stellar();
markdalgleish.com/projects/

6. jPlayer
● Probably my favorite jQuery plugin. [demo]
● Makes HTML5 audio programming super
fun like jQuery: $(“#player”).jPlayer
(“play”);
● Bind to events like start, stop, timestamp.
● Very cross-platform, cross-browser, and
codec friendly.
jplayer.org

7. Spritely
● Makes animating sprites dead simple. [demo]
● Cross-browser, mobile-friendly.
● Lightweight, highly customizable.
● $('#snake).sprite({fps: 12, frames: 8});
spritely.net

8. Thank you!
chris@apptitudenola.com