During the Oredev speakers dinner last November, I was having an interesting discussion about the car industry and how Google in one swipe mangled up the turn-to-turn navigation market. During this discussion and other interesting conversations at the following JsConf, it it became more and more clear that we (web developers) should be able to write applications for instance for cars, write applications for phones we can plug into cars, and write those applications using web technologies – meaning JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
It’s been quite some time since the last dojo.beer() event took place in Germany and a lot of things have changed within the Dojo Toolkit with the release of 1.4.0. This is why we would like to invite everyone who is interested in Dojo, or who would like to talk to other Dojo developers, to the next dojo.beer() event in Munich:
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In a lot of programming languages, I would even say in most programming languages, the following looks awkward and does surely not work. One of those languages is C. But JavaScript is sometimes a miracle and like a box of jewelery, ready to be discovered. And if you are new to it, it is loaded with surprises. Read on to get a tiny glimpse into some of them. JavaScript has some really interesting things waiting. (more…)
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Porting a W3C widget to webOS should not take a lot of effort, should it? webOS is built on top of web technologies, and in my mind the web is tagged “#universal”. But unfortunately, webOS isn’t universal. It’s different. I’m going to show you which differences you need to be aware of when doing cross-platform development and your application is supposed to run on webOS. (more…)
In a recent project a client asked for boxes with rounded corners and filled with a gradient; within an application targeted at smartphones.
On mobile devices it is important to keep things simple, for instance to keep the number of DOM nodes low. That rules out using additional elements for the corners. On the other hand, many mobile devices are featuring recent versions of web rendering engines. Dive into CSS 3.
Modern web development techniques offer a lot of possibilities to render boxes with rounded corners: e.g. border-radius, border-image, or SVG used as background. In this post I’m going to explore the support for them across different devices and runtime environments. You can skip to the results table if all you want is a quick overview.
As stated above, I want to achieve a box with rounded corners and a gradient that reaches from top to bottom, scaling to the height of the box. The example might be simple, but it is representing a common design goal.
August 9th was the day for the first Dojo event in Israel and thanks to Yoav Rubin from IBM Research Labs in Haifa, we were able to hold the event in the great Auditorium of the amazingly located IBM building in Haifa.
To give you a little impression of what kind of working environment the folks at IBM have, I uploaded a panorama image from Yoav’s office.
The news have been announced already on the Dojotoolkit.org and Dojocampus.org blogs but I nevertheless wanted to mention the dojo.workshop in Haifa, Israel on August 9th.
Already now we have more than 50 signups and thanks to Yoav Rubin from IBM research labs we can have a full day of Dojo-ness. (more…)
Last Thursday I was at the #gtugmuc which was really packed this time. For being the second #gtug in Munich I am very impressed how quickly people reacted and attended. I think a main reason is that Google was hosting it and showing android stuff.
After the two android talks (Damon Kohler about Android Scripting Engine and Markus Junginger about Android in general, slides and links) a lot of people had already left, which made the at least 30°C in the room a bit more comfortable. I was a little scared that my JSONP-hacktalk would be boring for the people who stayed, since android seemed to be the main topic of the evening. But I think it went quite well and be sure to see more coming from our side regarding this topic, there are plans. And we are still hoping for Google to provide JSONP natively for spreadsheets, without the necessity of this hack. But haven’t heard anything about it yet either. Jens Trapp closed the evening with his talk about Google AppEngine, which as I have heard supports Java now too, nice! Unfortunately I had to miss out on the socializing part afterwards, so I didn’t get to hear the interesting stuff that always goes around then, but read about it in blogpostsetc. about #gtug. And it was really nice to meet Darren Cooper and the Frankfurt WebMontag people, they came all the way from Frankfurt just for that evening, awesome! See you in FF on the 10th of August!
Last but not least: A huge thanks to Nils Hitze who organized it all, it was a huge success, Nils you rock!
Today was the first day of the Internet World here in Munich. It is accompanied by RIA World and Mobile Vision, so you get three conferences at once. Unfortunately their schedules are not synchronized, pretty uncomfortable. This event is a mix of conference and fair. You can find and talk to a lot of (mostly) german companies and get all the infos you need. And on the other hand you can get some information about those three topics in the talks at the conference. And as usual the beer at the after-party is for free, even for those who are only there to see the fair and don’t have to pay, as I understood it. So come for a free beer :-). (more…)
At first we have to thank the organizers, it was a great event. Especially the developer day (~100 people) was so loaded with energy, ideas and enthusiasm – wow that was huge! It took place in Barcelona Activa a business incubator, obviously well known throughout Barcelona, the Taxi driver knew right away where to go. The offices in there looked like you wanted to work there, the style of the house was so interesting that I even walked the entire floor once, because everything was so open and felt constructive. If you want to move your business to Barcelona try it out. And this was of course the perfect place for the mobile developer day, a young and constantly exploring group of people, pushing the limits and full of energy to move the mobile web forward. The parties afterwards had been as inspiring and great for getting to know people as they had been fun.
The conference day was just as interesting and though it was also a pretty cosy atmosphere (I would say about 250 people) one felt the difference to the day before, it was more on the business level but always mixed with the understanding for the young mobile industry it’s technical hurdles and the rough edges it still has, it was perfect too. Having tapas under the spanish sun was just as perfect as the content and the people there. The range of topics, no matter if in a panel or solo had been amazing and I am sure that everyone heard something interesting. For all the slides, and hopefully some videos watch the mobile2.0 site, pics are as usual on flickr.
The next mobile2.0 will probably be in San Francisco around October. See you there …
We have been writing and talking about EventNinja already for a bit. Now you can have it! Just visit EventNinja.net and test it on your iPhone and other mobile devices. EventNinja is on its way into the different AppStores and we will keep you updated on new versions coming out.
What will you get? At first, you’re getting the best app out there to lead you around a conference like the mobile2.0 in Barcelona in a few days on the 18th and 19th of June 2009. If you are attending be sure to have EventNinja on your mobile! So that you have all the info at hand when searching for the next talk to attend. It’s not just a list of all relevant upcoming web developer events on your phone (and browser). It is even more, you can get in depth info about the events, their schedule, all the twitter messages for an event, directions and many more features.
If you are at the mobile2.0 be sure to visit us to get even more!
Enjoy the short video we prepared to give you an impression of what EventNinja can do
On the 18th of May I attended the WebMontag that took place here in Munich. It was an interesting mix of (short) talks ranging from augmented reality, digital art (innovative UIs), podcamp, a too long discussion about twitter and it’s use inside corporations, to various marketing talks for companies and their services, and ending all this with a short (the most tech-related talk) I gave about our cloud-based (not only mobile) widget EventNinja.
The venue (Pressecenter der Messe München) was not really in the city center, but it was a very nice atmosphere there and awesome hospitality. Thanks, we are looking forward to more. You can read some more in depth on the discuss&discover blog and on the PHPUG Munich page.
Also I spent some time at the UXCamp in Berlin, this was another kind of BarCamp, topic-wise. Very interesting discussions about what front-end engineers and user interface designer see as their job description and area of work. It was really good to just get another view into the web world and step actually quite a bit away from programming, I can only recommend attending it.
At the weekend (06/06/09 and 07/06/09) I’ve attended the BarCamp in Cologne. The event was completely overbooked just within some hours after the registration page was opened and I’m glad that I’ve got the possibility to attend there. A hint for people who try to attend to an overbooked event: just go there and ask on site to get in. Normally they don’t say no. (more…)
Last Monday, 29/05/2009, I’ve got the opportunity to give an “Introduction to Dojo” talk at the WebMontag in Augsburg. Because I was the only one doing a presentation I thought to use the whole available hour talking about Dojo. About 15 people attended even though the sun was shining outside. Thanks to everyone for sitting in a room without daylight and listening to a geek talking about JavaScript :-)
The talk was about common browser gaps (in regards to JavaScript) and how the Dojo Toolkit solves these issues for a frontend engineer and ended with a show-off of awesome applications that were created with Dojo (e.g. AOL Mail, Bespin, MapQuest, Plaxo).
Thanks to Dylan Schiemann for some of the slides and thanks to Weka for organizing this WebMontag in Augsburg. It was a really nice small event with interesting people and hopefully there will be more attendees next time.
As Wolfram already has posted in the last blog post, we are currently involved quite a bit in the mobile world and especially in investigating on how Dojo can be used best to develop for mobile devices.
Taking this as an opportunity we want to announce the next dojo.beer() in Barcelona on June 17th.
You can get all info about the event on the DojoCampus event site.
The day after, we are speaking at the Mobile2.0 developer day and will give a detailed introduction in how to write mobile applications using the Dojo Toolkit and making sure they are running on different platforms such as PhoneGap and the W3C widgets being supported by Vodafone.
If you are in Barcelona that week, feel free to get in touch and if you have time to join for drinks during the dojo.beer or the mobile 2.0 conference let us know. Please sign up using the poll below.
Para los españoles :-)
Como Wolfram ha escrito en su último artículo de blog, nosotros estamos muy involucrados en el mundo de los móviles y estamos especialmente investigando como desarollar de la mejor manera para dispositivos móviles con Dojo.
Aprovechamos esta oportunidad para anunciar el próximo dojo.beer() en Barcelona el 17 de junio de 2009.
Puedes encontrar toda la información en inglés sobre el evento en la página de eventos de DojoCampus.
Al día siguiente vamos a dar una ponencia en el Mobile2.0 developer day y vamos a explicar como escribir aplicaciones moviles usando el Dojo Toolit y como asegurarse de que funcionan en múltiples plataformas como PhoneGap y como W3C Widget apoyado por Vodafone entre otros.
Si estás en Barcelona durante esa semana y te apetece contactar con nosotros no dudes en venir a tomar una copa al dojo.beer o a la conferencia mobile2.0. Por favor participa en el poll abajo si quieres ir.
Nikolai said yesterday “Is Google spreadsheet becoming the new Microsoft Access?”. You know the visual database and form designer. Well, for the web and pure mashup apps, that are mainly or completely based on the web’s infrastructure, so to say cloud services, one could answer “Yes, it can cover at least the database part”. It may be poor in features, but a nice start.
Well all this buzzy stuff aside, read on to see how to use JSONP with a Google spreadsheet, even though it’s not exactly provided. (more…)
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