Workshops

On Wednesday May 9th we'll host two workshops:

• Mobile Web Apps by Remy Sharp
• How to get from here to everywhere: Taking your web skills mobile, by Jason Grigsby and Lyza Danger Gardner

A ticket is €350, and each workshops has 20 places at maximum, ensuring personal contact with the teacher and the other attendees. The workshops will be held in Felix Meritis, start at 09:00 and end around 17:00. Lunch and drinks will be provided.

Mobile Web Apps by Remy Sharp

Building rich interactive web sites...dare I say web apps - is a reality with the smart phone browsers shipping with all the latest JavaScript and CSS technologies.

This day long workshop will be a mix of introducing the latest technology & tricks on the mobile device and hands on practical exercises where you'll get to play with what you're learning.

Although this workshop will have an iOS focus, a lot of the technology we will look at applies to most new WebKit based devises (Android, Playbook, etc) and smartphones running Opera Mobile.

What you'll learn

• How to take advantage of unique properties of the mobile device, using some of the latest technologies
• Handling and working with touch and other mobile specific events
• Debugging approach: going way, way beyond the bad old alert
• Working offline: storing application assets and all it's data locally to the device
• Looking at framework and libraries to speed up development and time to release
• Deployment optimisations: getting your mobile app to your user real quick

Prerequisites

• Bring your mobile device, preferably an iPhone or iPad with the latest OS, and a laptop
• A little knowledge of CSS and JavaScript will help
• The latest install of Google Chrome or Safari (on your laptop)

Attendees

How to get from here to everywhere: Taking your web skills mobile, by Jason Grigsby and Lyza Danger Gardner

OK. You already know how to wield HTML and CSS, and maybe you can juggle JavaScript and server-side technologies, too. What you need to know is how to take your existing web skills mobile—quickly.

Lyza Gardner and Jason Grigsby, co-authors of "Head First Mobile Web" (O'Reilly), will show you the leading strategies for making web sites mobile friendly, whether you're adapting existing sites or building new ones from scratch. There is no silver bullet. But in this hands-on workshop, we'll show you the tools that make up the mobile web designer and developer arsenal—and how to choose which tactics to use for different projects.

You’ll get to know:

• Responsive Web Design (RWD): fluid layouts, media queries, and a whole lot of thinking differently
• Mobile-first and content-first RWD: treating content with respect
• Image handling and other performance optimization tactics
• What devices should we support...and how?
• HTML5 everywhere? Mobile-optimized markup for cruftier devices
• Tools to make your job way, way easier
• Sniff, sniff: Server-side device detection and content adaptation
• What’s on the horizon? How to keep today’s awesomeness from breaking tomorrow

Attendees