[Lancaster] xmonad and javascript

[andy baxter]

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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