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This session was presented by Brendan Kowitz (@brendankowitz) a Senior Developer from Readify and covered building responsive mobile web applications with MVC4, WebAPI and HTML5.
Overview
Why responsible mobile web applications?
Why responsive web applications?
Responsive options (or maturity model – myanalogy)
Common client-side patterns for organising JavaScript libraries
Knockout –http://knockoutjs.com/
Responsive UI toolkits
HTML Form elements
Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser.
Structuring responsive apps requires thinking different – need to allow for the fact that the underlying connection the user is using may be transient,
Application composition
Using libraries in your page
CommonJS specification
RequireJS
Node.js (Modules/1.0)
Script Loaders (load scripts in paralle)
YepNode
Yabble
MVC4 WebAPI –http://www.asp.net/web-api
Working with Async
Cache manifest –http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_manifest_in_HTML5
Using Localstorage
Bundling and minification
Node.js – if you don’t have it, it’s time to download it:http://nodejs.org/
Source code the Tiny Contact Manager demoed in the session.
http://tinycontactmanager.codeplex.com
This session was pretty good, but made me realise how far things have come since I was last writing code on a daily basis, plenty of progress. Lots to catch up on!