Inspirational reads for developers
The last time in 2012 I want to share some interesting articles.
Today: jQuery, mod_pagespeed, Method Bound, UX, translate (performance), WebKit, Fastbook, browser prefixes, AngularJS, SEO, CSS animation
The XING API is live!
Once upon a time: Kick-off with closed beta phase
In March we shared with you how we kicked off the closed beta phase for the XING API and what led us there. Back then we started with the following items on dev.xing.com, your one-stop shop for everything related to the XING API:
- A bunch of API calls, e.g. user profiles, contacts, bookmarks, recommendations and geolocations
- An API explorer to try out example requests for every call and play with the parameters right from your browser
- A Developer group as the heart of the community we started to build with you
- A changelog to keep you posted about important changes and
- Industry standard technologies and paradigms like REST, OAuth, JSON and XML
Inspirational reads for developers
The end of year approximates and still there are so many interesting articles. I wanna share some I collected over the past few weeks.
Today: AngularJS, MVC, __proto__, Firefox OS and more…
JSConf EU 2012
My trip to Berlin was only brief but nonetheless a great success. On the sixth and seventh of October, 44 talks were held over 2 days and presented on 2 stages (the production hall and the “bubble”) in the “Alte Münze”. The bubble was a fun transparent room made of plastic which was filled with chair cushions. Instead of listing all the talks that were given, I’d like to briefly point out my favorites (the full list of talks is available at 2012.jsconf.eu).
Inspirational reads for developers
Articles I found on the web during the past days and weeks.
Today: HTML5, MVC, Windows 8 & Internet Explorer 10, SASS, WebKit and more…
The war of semantics – that is no war
Website texts serve to provide information and we have various HTML elements available to give texts “more meaning”. That could of course be a paragraph, a header, a list, a blockquote tag, a link or – thanks to HTML5 – a navigation, a footer, an article or one of the other elements. From a machine (e.g. search engine) perspective, these elements each contain a collection of numbers or letters. To start with, machines aren’t really sure what to make of such collections. → Read more…
Fronteers 2012 recap
What we experienced at one of Europe’s biggest frontend conferences. The fifth annual Fronteers conference took place on October 4 and 5 in the Netherlands. The organizers chose Pathé Tuschinski as the venue, which is an old movie theater in Amsterdam that has been beautifully designed in the Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles.
The schedule was fully packed with a total of 16 speakers, so eight talks on each day. Each speaker had 50 minutes for their talk, followed by a small Q&A session moderated by Chris Heilmann who did an awesome job as the host.
It would be way too much to go through every talk, so we would like to point out our personal highlights from this year’s Fronteers. → Read more…
‘GUI & DESIGN’ – Developer’s Conference in December 2012
Yay! On December 11/12, 2012, we will be attending the ‘GUI&DESIGN’ conference in Berlin where we’ll be talking about ‘Undercover user testing for developers’.
Acquiring new users and keeping them happy is a daily challenge for us as a business network.
In our session we will provide you with insights about our work in the User Experience (UX) team and how we track down user needs. You will also learn about some research methods that you can apply yourself to make sure your product hits the nail on the head. These tips and tricks will be especially valuable to developers who do not have a dedicated UX team or for those who want to gain a better understanding of what these UX guys do all day long. ;)
If you want to join the conference, you can use this code (GUI2012_BU_1112) to receive a EUR 100 discount – it’s valid until November 11, 2012.
Inspirational reads for developers
Again we want to share some articles from the past weeks.
Today: AngularJS, Cache, Responsive design, Device testing, Content Security Policy, “data-” attributes and more
Meetups at XING
In the US they have already this movement which is now swapping over step by step to Europe: Meetups. Meetups are kind of “mini-conferences” about a special topic organized by volunteers and take place regulary in bigger rooms of companies in the evening of a working day.
At XING for example we regulary host the Hamburg JavaScript User Group or the Hamburg Web Performance Meetup. These two take place every four to six weeks. The host is usually changing everytime, so the last Web Performance Meetup took place at OTTO, the one before at Parship. We use several tools to get people onsite. On the one hand we have the site on Meetup.com, on the other hand we have are using – of course – the Events section on XING. These are the tools of choice.