[Lancaster] xmonad and javascript

[serko]

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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