Blog - Tag: javascript

Last Saturday 18^th Sept Vodafone hosted a full one day event, the 'London Ajax User Group Happening: JavaScript MiniConf'. The event was co-ordinated by Dylan Schiemann, London Ajax User Group organiser and one of the creators of the Dojo toolkit..

Around 45 keen developers attended from across the board including professional developers, hobbyists and newcomers to JavaScript. With some attendees travelling in from as far away as Ireland and Portugal.

The day consisted of an array of highly informative presentations (from the meetup site):

• James Thomas (IBM): "Browser Data Stores"
• Andrew Betts (Assanka, Meteor): "Ajax Navigation: pitfalls and best ...

If you are building data driven apps then you might want to take a look at NextDB.net a hosted 'cloud' database for JavaScript programmers, which offers a simple, lightweight JavaScript API for performing safe and secure read/write operations to a hosted database server. All of the design and management of the database is done through a simple web based admin interface, requiring no software installation. The impetus for NextDB.net was the understanding that front-end widget developers need a simpler way to design and interact with server side data, without all of the hassles and upfront costs of ...

On Saturday18^th Sept we’ll be hosting the London Ajax User Group Happening: JavaScript MiniConf at our offices here in London.

This is a great opportunity to network and learn from likeminded JavaScript developers.

The current schedule looks like this:

• 9:00am: Meet & Greet, Introduction
• 9:30am: Talks about Client-side JS
• 12:00pm: Lunch
• 12:45pm: Talks about Server-side JS
• 2:30pm-4:30pm: Talks about Mobile JS
• 4:30-5:00 Wrap-up
• 5:00-? Union Bar

Find out more about the event, see who's attending and sign up here.

Directions to the Vodafone Paddington offices can be found here ...

The Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of telecommunications companies committed to building an open applications platform, today announced its formation as a corporate entity, as well as the organisation’s leadership and board of directors. The company also announced that it will join forces with the Joint Innovation Lab (JIL), accelerating the commercial launch of WAC-enabled application stores.

At launch, WAC will allow operators to distribute applications through their respective application storefronts and charge users through their existing phone bill.  In this model, developers will set the application price and will receive a revenue share for the transaction. The ...

The sizing of text and graphical elements on different displays is a fairly complex problem in Web development. It is different to what you simulate when you drag your browser window to different sizes – because it is more about the pixel's physical size. A working solution to this is built into the Vodafone Widget Manager and it's only based on standards: CSS, CSS Media Queries and JavaScript.

Pixel-Density

Displays have two obvious characteristics: The sheer physical size and the number of pixels they are made of, often called "resolution". However these two are actually combined into a third ...