I spent last Friday in the mood of the innovation with a few other liipers. So we had all day long to explore a new technology, something we had never tried before. The main purpose of this hackday was to implement a simple REST API based on NodeJS providing a list of images taken randomly from the world wide web.
The 20th and 21st September took place the "From the Front 2012" conference in Bologna (Italy),
If you want to make use of the webapp mode on ios you have to make sure you don’t follow normal links otherwise safari will open. Of course there are more reasons to make an application singlepage but this was our main motivation.
We were building a webapp that has to work on older browsers without JavaScript. Naturally we're trying to reduce duplications so we didn't roll with JS Models but delivered finished markup over XHR. This worked really good as long as the frontend was "stoopid" and just displaying things but became a bit of a hassle when we started to add functionallity.
Last Saturday I attended SwissJeese, the first Swiss tech conference dedicated exclusively to JavaScript. It was co-organised by @bdufresne and @shvi from JSGeneve and JSZürich respectively. Thanks to the sponsors, it was complitely free (as in beer) to attend and there were even food and drinks included.
From May 16th to May 19th the latest edition of jsDay and phpDay took place in Verona, Italy. Both are two-day conferences, the first one centered around JavaScript, the second around PHP (obviously). They are organised by the community (Grusp) which means they are much more focused on technology than on marketing. A number of Liipers were attending one or both conferences and some where even giving talks.
Recently, we had a hackday at Liip, where we dived into game development with JavaScript. Our goal was to see how hard it is to produce a simple cross platform game using just JavaScript and HTML5 elements. Since we didn't want to reinvent the wheel, we decided to use a JavaScript game framework.
The Tages-Anzeiger TV-Sélection iPad app has been available for download in the Apple app store for about a week now.
I waited with this blogpost until slides and videos became available. Now it seems that they all are here.