[Lancaster] xmonad and javascript

[Richard Smedley]

On 10/06/12 21:20, serko wrote:
> Never heard of coffescript before. I have heard of nodejs but I haven't
> used it. I'll give them some time because they do seem interesting.

You need to read the LinuxUser & Developer [1] book reviews ;-)

We've reviewed:
Getting Started with GEO, CouchDB, and Node.js (issue 106)
CoffeeScript - Accelerated JavaScript Development (issue 107)
Head First JQuery (issue 108)
Node Web Development (issue 109)
Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making Native Apps 
with Standards-Based Web Tools (2nd Edition) (issue 112)
...plus loads of books on JS, Ruby, Python, Big Data, Informatics...

and featured XMonad (which is my everyday Window Manager :)

  - Richard

[1] Other dead-tree-format magazines are available

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> On 10/06/2012 17:17, andy baxter wrote:
>> Hey Serko,
>>
>> Thanks for the information. I'll have a look at the guide.
>>
>> I'll tell the buddycloud people about jquerymobile. I was wondering if
>> you've ever looked at coffeescript and nodejs?
>>
>> http://coffeescript.org/
>> http://nodejs.org/
>>
>> Useful if you want to do any serious stuff in javascript. Buddycloud
>> uses coffeescript for both client and server, which is pretty handy.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> andy
>>
>> On 10/06/12 13:30, serko wrote:
>>> Hey Andy,
>>>
>>> glad you're enjoying Xmonad. Here's a nice guide I followed to set it
>>> up and then tweaked to my needs
>>> http://thinkingeek.com/2011/11/21/simple-guide-configure-xmonad-dzen2-conky/
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> Regarding the javascript apps on phones, I should clarify that I
>>> don't have any professional experience with that yet as at the moment
>>> where I work we only do native Android/iOS apps. However more and
>>> more clients have been contemplating of doing one app that could work
>>> on all platforms and that has made me look into some of those
>>> "hybrid" solutions in my own time.The most popular library for this
>>> sort of work is jQueryMobile http://jquerymobile.com/. I'd suggest
>>> you start from that. As far as I know, PhoneGap, Cordova and Titanium
>>> are all frameworks that can work with JQueryMobile and other html5
>>> technologies to produce native optimized apps for each platform so
>>> you can have them in the respective app stores. Also I think they
>>> provide an interface to even more native platform APIs (compared to
>>> jquerymobile) if you want to do more complicated stuff. I haven't
>>> worked with any of them though, so take all this with a grain of
>>> salt. I've only worked with jQueryMobile for a while and as I said I
>>> think it's the place to start for this sort of thing.
>>>
>>> hope this helps a bit
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Serko
>>>
>>> On 10/06/12 12:06, andy baxter wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Just wanted to say thanks to the greek guy I talked to in the
>>>> Gregson the other day (Stellos? Sorry i forgot your name) for
>>>> putting me on to xmonad and also the javascript phone app stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Xmonad (a tiling window manager with keyboard shortcuts) seems to be
>>>> saving me a lot of time faffing with the mouse. The only thing I'm
>>>> missing is notifications from pidgin, but I can probably work out
>>>> how to set this up.
>>>>
>>>> If you get this, could you let me know the name of the library you
>>>> use to do cross-platform javascript apps on phones? I think it could
>>>> be useful for buddycloud, as their client is written in javascript
>>>> (actually coffeescript but it comes to the same thing). I saw
>>>> 'PhoneGap' / 'Cordova', and someone suggested 'Titanium', but it
>>>> would be good to have a recommendation from someone with experience.
>>>>
>>>> best wishes,
>>>>
>>>> andy
>>>>
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