Events
10 Tips for Avoiding Frontend Single Points of Failure
Last week I had the pleasure of attending an eye opening chat by Google’s Steve Souders at Etsy’s Code as Craft Technology Talk. He focused on Front End Single Points of Failure. Steve made the point that redundancy is not just for hardware. It’s important that our code gracefully recover from failed dependencies. This would […]
Take Your Kid to Work Day 2012 at R/GA
On Friday, March 4th, 2012, I participated in my first Take Your Kid(s) to Work Day at R/GA. On this day, I had the pleasure to take part in Web Workshop, an introduction class that teaches kids 9-14 years old the basics of web development. The web is the heart of R/GA, and we couldn’t […]
Excessive Enhancement
As a web developer and advocate of open standards, I give much thought to the potential dangers of blindly employing emerging web technologies. I am regularly wowed by exciting new snazzy tricks and techniques , but I care deeply about the web and have seen some bad practices from the past re-emerging. This March, I was lucky enough to get an opportunity to speak about […]
HTML5 and Gaming: Devup Barcelona
Last week, I was lucky enough to give a talk at Devup , the HTML5 developer conference in Barcelona. Devup attracts a variety of developers and this year had a focus on using HTML5 (and friends) to develop rich experiences and in particular, games in the browser. Being primarily a Web guy, I’m not experienced at game design or game development and so it was […]
The Future of the Mobile Web: A View from BDConf
I just got back from the Breaking Development Conference that was held in Orlando, Florida. It was a gathering of some of the best minds working in the mobile web right now, and every session was brimming with insight into how to think and create for the web in this increasingly diverse landscape. Some themes emerged over the course of the conference. The first is […]
R/GA @ JSConf 2012
R/GA had a great presence this year at JSConf 2012 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mojitos were flowing and mechanical bulls were bucking. The roughly 250 JavaScript devs in attendance were pretty psyched when they were each given a Nexus S running Mozilla’s open source OS, B2G . Excitement continued with two days of inspiring talks and demos given by some of the industry’s best and brightest. […]
10gen Presents mongodb For Developers at R/GA U
If there’s one thing we’ve come to expect from our clients it’s that they will come to us with interesting problems that require creative solutions. Sometimes these solutions take us into uncharted territory. For that reason, it’s essential we stay on top of the latest industry trends. A few years ago R/GA University was established […]
Maker Faire Visits NYC, R/GA Visits Maker Faire
This past weeked the Maker Faire visited NYC. Landing at the Hall of Science in Queens – an attraction that’s worth visiting the other 51 weekends of the year – this sprawling celebration of makers and the things they make filled my heart with geeky joy. Looking for a giant iron fire breathing dragon that […]
Upcoming R/GA talks
In the coming weeks, members of the R/GA Technology team will be appearing at several conferences. Join us live if you can and keep a lookout for commentary and pieces of their presentations appearing on the Tech Blog. UPDATE: We’ve added slides for “Selling the Mobile Web.” Breaking Development – September 12-14, Nashville, TN […]
Build Apps Linked to Times Square!
Now, for the first time, your app can link directly to 19,000 square feet of LED screens in Times Square with one AJAX call. What makes this possible is a new API created by R/GA in collaboration with TS2 the Thomson-Reuters/NASDAQ alliance. This simple collection of methods (code named Pomegranate) enables apps to push text and images to fourteen […]
