[Lancaster] xmonad and javascript

[serko]

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.

thanks mate

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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