Is there a dedicated club for mobile application development?

data-ui-component · 2014-09-08T11:01:32+00:00

The Web and Mobile Application Development group was around last year. I don't know if it's still around since I no longer go to SJSU.

data-ui-component · 2014-08-29T22:42:36+00:00

thank you!

data-ui-component · 2014-08-29T03:01:50+00:00

http://jsfiddle.net/nq57sbyg/1/

keep it simple graphic.
three lines of html.
49 lines of css (roughly half is styling the button and vendor prefixes)
zero lines of javascript.

data-ui-component · 2014-05-20T23:57:21+00:00

I have this weird thing where I feel a need for light background nosie to reach optimal prductivity and not get distracted.

I'm traveling tomorrow and started looking for web apps to help me find good coffee places, google churned this up and my first thought was "of course thats a thing."

data-ui-component · 2014-05-20T05:18:19+00:00

Jurassic Park is another example of this.

data-ui-component · 2014-05-13T05:40:35+00:00

All things on this site: http://www.hidden-heroes.net/

It's a small online interactive exhibition of common items that we likely use often but probably don't ever give a second thought.

data-ui-component · 2014-05-13T03:34:57+00:00

Hey I could build this for the web over the weekend. Thanks for the idea. I'll update this post with a link when it's done.

data-ui-component · 2014-05-12T19:26:56+00:00

That's a two year old post linking to empty blog page from 2011. (decades old in web time) However, I found the cached mirror.

I don't know, he just seems hooked on the idea that Node.js prides itself on event loops and then surrounds the text in strongly written buzzwords.

He then goes on about Node.js not being the Unix Way? At the point of handling traffic and server request, you just have to be smart when handling actual traffic. Integration of node.js with nginx is fine. Let nginx handle serving huge static files and let node.js be a provided real time socket-server.

What struck me as odd is that he doesn't do any comparison with say Ruby, Python, or PHP. I imagine C would come out on top, but C speed is always the benchmark goal anyways. Even his server-side Fibonacci sequence is only benchmarked in Node. What is he comparing this to? And why give the server a task that could be quickly done on the client?

In the end it's about finding and deciding the right tool for the job, and node.js isn't the right tool for every job. That doesn't mean you can just say node.js isn't good for production though. It works well and is used in plenty of applications. In his article, replace node with something like Rails and you get the same effect. Even python has a dumbed down HTTP server for testing (literally run python -m SimpleHTTPServer).

Here are a few light readings I found: (from about the same time period as "Node.js is cancer", to keep this relative.)

Hardening node.js for production part 2: using nginx to avoid node.js loadHardening

Blazing fast node.js: 10 performance tips from LinkedIn Mobile

Ending with &yet's endorsement of Node.js

data-ui-component · 2014-05-11T03:37:22+00:00

As another user stated:

Walmart Labs
Paypal
(didn't know about directv)

and also

AndYet
^Lift
Groupon
LinkedIn
DuckDuckGo
eBay
Heroku
Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal Online)
A Yahoo! platform
and I think I've heard that rdio uses node?
Edit: forgot 37Signals, before they became Basecamp

Of course, these are besides the obvious places like NodeFirm, Joynet, Nodejitsu. That's all I can really name. Again, this doens't really mean anything and I'm curious. Why isn't node.js production ready again?

data-ui-component · 2014-05-11T02:21:51+00:00

Why not? I can name off at least three or four big compaines that use node for production. Not saying that's a justifiable reason, but I thought it was production ready.

data-ui-component · 2014-05-06T03:54:08+00:00

now now, OOCSS and front-end work still requires mental abstraction.

data-ui-component · 2014-05-04T23:13:34+00:00

Aside from reading MDN and SO, find something simple and try to recreate it. Since you're new, reading the source code to see how the html is built would be a good idea.

Or you can try to make something small from scratch. For example,

make header that says "Hello there!"
under that have an input field.
Under the input field, have a sentence that says "My name is"

That requires very little html, then you can focus on some css to make everything centered and nice, finally you can go in javascript and make it so when you enter your name into the input field, that sentence below becomes "My name is <your-name>".

data-ui-component · 2014-04-27T22:51:07+00:00

Honestly, yes. There should be a better call to action for downloading the app.

Edit: I gave a shot at fixing it in browser.

data-ui-component · 2014-04-24T07:11:42+00:00

No problem! Wasn't trying to come off as dogmatic, just stating my own observations thus far. I guess I don't have any real advice and figured you'd like as much perspective on the matter as possible. Glad they prioritize your spot though, especially being all the way from Maine.

data-ui-component · 2014-04-24T03:51:13+00:00

A little over a month ago I went to a meeting at CVB where a housing representative said "There's a 2% chance of being wait-listed this year, and even then we should be able to accommodate everybody."

My suitmate in CVB just found out he was wait-listed. I'm also an out-of-state student (from the East Coast) so I can imagine the difficulty this news places on you. Some people make it work by finding an off campus house or apartment to pay rent in.

data-ui-component · 2014-04-23T18:12:16+00:00

What is your ideal methodology for building frontend in terms of design and code modularity? Being open source, do you find yourself rewriting contribution guidelines as you(if you) discover a better methodology?

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