Professional Training

Mobile Web Apps

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 devices (Android, Playbook, etc) and smartphones running Opera Mobile.

Remy's HTML5 for mobile workshop showed me how to do at least three things I'd previously thought were impossible.

Truly inspiring day spent with Remy on mobile stuff, time to get stuck in. Anyone got and mobile dev they need doing ;)

When, where, how much

• Cost: £400 + VAT per person
• When: 28-Feb 2013
  
• Where: The Lighthouse, Brighton (map)

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
• A little knowledge of CSS and JavaScript will help
• The latest install of Google Chrome or Safari
• Installation of Node.JS

Using HTML5 and JavaScript to build Web Apps

HTML5 has gained a lot of attention over the last 12 months. With browsers increasingly supporting the features of the vast JavaScript APIs both in and around the official HTML5 spec, it's making the job of creating awesome applications purely using these web technologies very easy indeed.

This full day workshop will introduce you to HTML5 with a brief backstory, before diving into the APIs one by one. As well as going through code and showing practical demonstrations, where possible, we'll also talk about the alternatives for old browsers that don't support "awesome" out of the box.

Awesome day! Thank you so much Remy for a fantastic workshop! :) looking forward to using my new knowledge!

The workshop with @rem today was awesome! Learned a bunch and am genuinely excited to use new tech.

What will be covered?

• Video & audio – move over Flash
• Canvas – bring on the Mario games
• Storage – like cookies, but tastes so much better
• Offline – forget the web
• Geolocation – finders keepers
• Web Workers – multithreading for the browser
• Web Sockets – pushing data was never so easy

Who is this workshop for?

You're not expected to have played with HTML5 just yet, but you will need to have a reasonable understanding of HTML & JavaScript. A lot of the individual APIs are being used in popular web sites today both in desktop browsers and mobile, so rest assured that this applies to developers that are working on the web today.

Node: knowledge smash & grab

Remy has run sell out Node workshops for a couple of years now, and this workshop is a fully packed day of material and exercises to get you up and running quickly with all the fundamentals you need to create your Node backed application.

Need to convince your boss? here's an outline to help

Today's workshop was excellent, it's got me really excited about JavaScript again.

Get from dev zero to node hero with a workshop by Remy. More learning in two days than you thought you could take (and still remember it!)

What you'll learn

• Up and running in 5 minutes
• Getting past the basics: modules, static servers, application servers
• Adding real-time: websockets
• Workflow tools for running and debugging
• Datastores with Mongo & Mongoose
• Dependencies with npm
• Hands on advice for:
  • publishing to github
  • publishing to npm
  • configuring for development
  • deploying to servers

What you need for this workshop?

• Node installed (make sure it's a recent version)
• Ideally have git installed & a github account.
• A text editor (Sublime Text, TextMate, Coda, Textpad++, etc)
• A browser with latest technology baked in, like Google Chrome for instance

When, where, how much

• Cost: £395 + VAT per person
• When: 19 July 2013
  
• Where: The Lighthouse, Brighton (map)

Ticket includes:

All tickets include lunch and refreshments in the morning and afternoon. For special dietary requirements, please let us know.

jQuery for Designers

You've heard of jQuery, you know it's supposed to do beautiful things, but you don't do JavaScript, and you don't know where all the pieces go to create your beautiful thing. This workshop will ease you in to adding jQuery to your projects, cover what jQuery has to offer and how you can make use of it.

You'll be learning jQuery from a practical point of view: what you can use out of the box to quickly get effects and interaction live in to your wireframes, prototypes and web sites. The aim isn't to teach you JavaScript, but to teach you what you need to know to be able to leverage jQuery to do your bidding.

A day of lightbulbs ~ you demystified jQuery for me—made it easy to understand, now happily working with what you taught me, thank you.

jQuery for designers gave me everything I needed to use jQuery day to day. Now I write my own plug-ins & run my own jQuery workshop.

What you'll learn

• How to impress your clients without writing any code
• jQuery – how to bend the DOM to your will
• Effect and animations – make things that go whizz bang
• How to recognise jQuery design patterns
• How almost everything is a tabbing system
• Ajax – it’s even simpler than you think

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is for front-end visual designers and developers who are familiar with HTML and CSS. If you have flirted with jQuery or JavaScript in the past, this will be an advantage, but is not a necessity.

When, where, how much

• Cost: £395 + VAT per person
• When: 18 July 2013
  
• Where: The Lighthouse, Brighton (map)