Category Archives: HTML5

BirdWalker, then and now

Posted on January 28, 2016 by wfwalker

“About time, too. He’s been looking dreadful for days; I’ve been telling him to get a move on.“—Albus Dumbledore about his phoenix Fawkes after Fawkes burst into flame Just as Fawkes periodically must burst into flames and rise again from … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Ruby on Rails | Leave a comment

Using Google Maps in a responsive design

Posted on May 7, 2014 by wfwalker

[When I’m not in the office, I’m often out birding and photographing birds. To keep track of my life list and bird photos I wrote a Ruby on Rails site hosted at birdwalker.com; you can see all the source on … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Ruby on Rails | 4 Comments

Video of my YUIConf talk about open web app development

Posted on February 27, 2014 by wfwalker

The YUIConf folks have just posted their recording of a talk I gave there last year. I had planned to talk generally about the Firefox Marketplace, how it differs from other app stores, and how those differences create an overall … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Mozilla, Trip Reports | Leave a comment

Replacing Google Image Charts with D3.js

Posted on January 31, 2014 by wfwalker

[When I’m not in the office, I’m often out birding and photographing birds. To keep track of my life list and bird photos I wrote a Ruby on Rails site hosted at birdwalker.com; you can see all the source on … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Ruby on Rails | 1 Comment

jsEverywhere: From Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery by Morten Nielsen

Posted on October 26, 2012 by wfwalker

Morten‘s presentation is a hilarious, compelling fable of what happens when a .NET shop relying on manual processes becomes a victim of its own success and ends up with an exploding number of software versions in the field. The fable … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Trip Reports | Leave a comment

jsEverywhere: End-to-End W3C APIs by Alexandre Morgaut

Posted on October 26, 2012 by wfwalker

Alexandre is giving a great overview of the history of JavaScript, popular API’s, and the role of W3C and other standards bodies. He gives a shoutout to Kevin Dangoor for CommonJS, then proposes the idea that remote CommonJS processes can … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Trip Reports | Leave a comment

jsEverywhere: Single Page Applications, Josh Powell

Posted on October 26, 2012 by wfwalker

Josh Powell is giving a great talk about how to make single page web applications with JavaScript. The main focus is on how to break free of the web 1.0 tyranny of doing a page load for every new piece … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Trip Reports | Leave a comment

Firefox Aurora Marketplace for Android available now

Posted on October 26, 2012 by wfwalker

Earlier this month, Mozilla announced the Firefox Aurora Marketplace release. We’re hoping that Aurora users, our awesome early adopters, will go experience the Firefox Marketplace on their Android phones and let us know what they think. Our goal is to … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Mozilla | Tagged | Leave a comment

David Kaneda and Josh Clark @ DevCon5 NYC

Posted on July 24, 2012 by wfwalker

This session has David and Josh riffing about designing for mobile. Device context is different from User Context. Just because you know they have a small screen, you don’t know whether they’re focused or distracted, having a short or a … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Trip Reports | Leave a comment

Allan De Consta Pinto (Microsoft) @ DevCon5 NYC

Posted on July 24, 2012 by wfwalker

Allen is a technical evangelist, he’s here to talk about building native Windows 8 Apps with HTML. He emphasizes that Windows 8 makes Touch and the Windows Store first-class citizens. Nice detail: you can set up a visual gesture password … Continue reading →

Posted in HTML5, Trip Reports, Uncategorized | Leave a comment