Tag: confoo 2012

  • Building Mobile Experiences That Don’t Suck

    Frédéric Harper is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Canada, based in Montreal. He gave a very interesting session this morning on what makes a mobile experience successful. What type of application? Frédéric started his session by describing what brings a user to download and use an app: The user wants to perform micro tasks like…

  • DRYing CSS for brevity, unity and maintainability

    Jeremy Clarke brought a new CSS concept to us today by introducing what he calls the Don’t Repeat Yourself CSS. By working on a big website like Global Voices, he’s had to deal with a lot of challenges on the WordPress platform but also with always optimizing the site at its best. In general, the…

  • The HTML5 Landscape

    Here is a summary of a talk we attended on Day 1 of Confoo 2012. The HTML5 Landscape by Andrew Lombardi HTML5 was introduced in 2009 and its logo was finalized in 2011. Even though it’s been around for a while, few developers actually use it fully in their projects. The features of HTML5 are…