Mobile JavaScript Summit

As I write this I’m attending the Mobile JavaScript Summit and unfortunately I can’t give it the glowing recommendation that I gave CSS Summit 2011. While I left CSS Summit 2011 feeling educated I can’t say I feel as such with Mobile JavaScript Summit. Unfortunately, it felt more like the majority of the speakers were pimping their particular product. I understand that they need to do so but I really expected to see some good coding.

Who was Informative

Josh Clark provided some very good information about The New Rules of Designing for Touch.

Steven Gill moderately pimped PhoneGap but he did it in an informative and useful way – and he was entertaining.

Marc Grabanski really showed some of the power of jQuery Mobile. I thought he did an excellent job of giving voice to the wonderful things jQuery Mobile can do.

This is just my observation but it seemed that there was a lot of down playing of jQuery Mobile. It’s really to bad because out of all the offerings it is the only one that I saw that was capable of graceful degradation across multiple browsers and multiple platforms.

Don’t take my word for it though, one of the products might be the right one for what you’re trying to do. Check out the site here.

It’s Moving Day! – 42wd Publishing is Moving

It’s moving day for 42wd Publishing. We’re moving into a transitional work space so that we can better leverage our collective resources and create time lines, focused strategies, SEO campaigns, social campaigns, data harvesting, vetting of several proofs of concepts, and so forth. In short, 42wd Publishing is moving from proofs of concepts to actual start up mode.

What is this 42wd Publishing you’re talking about? I don’t recall you talking about it before. Oh but I have. I’ll explain.

A lot of the concepts I’ve been talking about through out this blog are concepts that have been proofed in our metaphorical labs at 42wd Publishing.

I digress though. You probably would like to know what 42wd Publishing is first.

Google Plus Games – The Beginning of the End?

Today Google+ rolled out their gaming system for casual games. They also rolled out info on the Google+ Platform at the same time. The Google+ Platform announcement got buried under a horde of anti-casual gaming sentiment. As a designer I’ll be paying attention to the Google+ Platform blog so I can see what some of the developers I work with may be digging through for new projects. You can read about the Google+ Platform here: Google+ Platform

About my brief experience with Google+ Games

The Fall of Google or Not

One has to wonder if Mr. Zuckerburg and FaceBook is paying the digital media outlet to taught the down fall of Google at the slightest dip of any measurable stat.

Here’s some facts that are so prevalent on the interwebs I’m not going to bother citing them; they’re just that easy to find.

Google+ Achieved over 20 million members in one month during an invite only closed beta with limited acceptances of the invites.

FaceBook has been around since 2001, that’s ten years, and has 750 million members.

Since the stats folks don’t seemed concerned about one person/multi-profiles I won’t be.

So let’s do some math. Assuming an even growth rate [Yes, I know that doesn’t happen.] let’s do some math.

CSS Summit 2011

I had the great opportunity to attend the CSS Summit 2011 and I have to say we’ve come a long way.

I’m not sure what resources will be available after the summit is over but head on over to CSS Summit 2011 and see what you can scavenge up.

I like to believe I’m pretty educated in CSS manipulation, I’ve come up with some pretty interesting semantic CSS, but the speakers showed me a bunch of stuff I hadn’t even thought off. I’m excitedly waiting for them to release the recordings and transcripts so I can go back through them and harvest lots of good code nuggets and best practices I probably missed in all the cream goodness of info they shared.

Seriously, go check it out and see what you can get.