Janko in a Jar

I was at WebCampLjubljana last Saturday. WebCamp is the BarCamp style event with WEB theme. At the last BarCamp I promissed myself that I will give a talk on the next one, so I prepared a talk called “A pinch of REBOLution – dissecting a web (ro)bot“.

Random points and questions from the talks I was on:

Continuous integration:

• Interesting talk. More relevant to a little bigger software dev houses than me an myself.
• unit tests unit tests + UI (functional) tests + …
• Did he mentioned any SCM / VCS software they use?

Saass

• Some programmable power at CSS is needed.
• Not sure if this isn’t an overkill, a whole new lang.
• Does it have functions to deal with color? Like desaturate(#f1e171, 0.4); or invert, etc. ? That would be nice so user could make whole “skin” that you prepared of more or less intense colors, invert them, rotate on the circle of colors.

Embedded webkit browser OS

• I thought before Visionect is more of a vaporware and I didn’t know for any POINT / TRICK of why their device is different
• I thought their device can’t be light/cheap because having a webkit on it must have some concrete demands. Webkit is light but it’s not like it’s written in PIC RISC Assembler.
• But they do have a device, and they do have a TRICK, a very good trick. The webkit is on the server and it’s only sending PIXELS that changed to the device over a custom fast wireless network. Now putting pixels you receive on a screen, that is light.

Synaptic Web – Ze Evolution of Internets

• The phrase exists only from 7th Nov, 3 weeks.
• Being the natural born skeptic that I am, I am not yet sure if this is just a bunch of buzzwords and cool stuff put together or there is some oldschool concrete value there. I will sure follow this further.

Brave New Concurrent World

• Haven’t yet thought before that you can “reduce” a tree much nicer in parallel than a list.
• Hope OCaml or some other ML will soon be able to join the parallel FP languages bunch.

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