This is an introduction to the WebSocket API. WebSockets is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open an interactive communication session between the user’s browser and a server. With this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to poll the server …
Kotlin is a modern statically typed language targeting JVM and JavaScript and intended for industrial use. The main goal behind this project is to create a language that would be a good tool for developers, i.e. will be safe, concise, flexible, 100% Java-compatible and well-supported by IDE and other tooling. …
Designing for Android can be super complicated due to the multitude of device sizes. But does it have to be that way? In this talk, the presenter will show the design process she used while collaborating with a freelance designer to create Monkey Write. The design goal: To produce a …
It’s always important to keep your ActiveRecord models in tip-top shape. Ben Hughes explores several techniques for refactoring models and preventing them from getting out of hand.
Collaboration is the key to an agile team’s success. Yet, even today, Design is too often perceived as a tactic to simply “make things user-friendly and pretty.” To combat that oversimplification, designers often shroud their work in a mysterious cloud of specialized tools and jargon reserved for silo’ed “design phases” …
This talk covers experiences writing real HTML5 apps for the cross device web. It dives into code sharing across different form factors, layout considerations using the flexbox model, hardware accelerated positioning, scrolling, simulating :active pseudo-state, multi-touch gestures and other best practices.
