A Glimpse Into a Competence Development Day at Jayway
Last week we had a competence development day at Jayway and we thought it would be nice to share what we did. During a competence development day, we get together…
6 Reasons Isomorphic Web Apps is not the Silver Bullet You’re Looking For
During the last two years, I've heard the term Isomorphic Web Apps mentioned in a positive way more and more frequently. Also during this time, I've done some thinking myself…
Ubuntu + Overtone + VimClojure
I've been playing around with Overtone a bit lately, but I felt very limited with just evaluating code in the REPL. What I needed was a way to open a file in…
Combining HTML Hypermedia APIs and Adaptive Web Design
tl;dr HTML is the lowest common denominator in a world where the number of devices are steadily growing. In such a world, our API should be hypermedia driven and we…
App Harbor and RavenDB
Some days ago I had the opportunity to do a spike on making a small application and deploy it in App Harbor. I had never used App Harbor before, but…
HTML5 Server-Sent Events
There's been a lot of talk lately about realtime web and WebSockets, but did you know that there exists an alternative HTML5 technology called EventSource that could handle some of…
Custom events in WinJS
In this post, we'll perform a refactoring that moves some code that controls the AppBar in a Metro application written in HTML5. The code is currently placed in each page…
Windows 8 for Web Developers, TechDays 2012 Debriefing
Yesterday we had the pleasure to present at TechDays 2012, with a session named "Windows 8 for Web Developers". The topic of the presentation was how to develop Win8 Metro…
"HTML5 & MVC3" Debriefing
Recently, Jayway hosted the seminar "HTML5 & MVC3" in Malmö and Stockholm. We also visited the SweNUG Linköping group and held our presentation there. In this post, we will give…
CoffeeScript Goodies
A few weeks ago, it was announced that Ruby on Rails 3.1 will include jQuery, Sass (using SCSS) and CoffeeScript as default dependencies. Among these, CoffeeScript seems to be the…
TechDays 2011 Web Debriefing
During the last two days of TechDays 2011 in Örebro, with the tagline 'the Cloud story', the term HTML5 was as frequently mentioned by speakers on some tracks as the…
Using Sinatra for local Javascript development
For a little while now, I've been playing with Sammy.js, a small framework built on top of jQuery which makes it easier for you to develop single-page web apps. More…