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078: With Rick Blalock

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This week we were joined by mobile architect Rick Blalock. Rick currently works at Appcelerator, a framework for building out native applications in Javascript. Rick also knows quite a bit about Joomla.

We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

  • 12:30 Why mobile apps are slow
  • 21:17 Tweetbot Neue
  • 22:42 Clear up EE drama: Brandon Kelley did not “rage quit” on stage, and EllisLab is looking for a new owner for CodeIgniter

    • Q & A:

    • 25:12 Do you guys know any good resources that feature some advanced knowledge about web-apps on mobile devices?
    • 33:58 What do you guys think of the responsive image delivery services that are coming online? Have you tried any? Do they reduce the ‘Ughck’?
    • 42:15 With Google getting ready to punish sites that aren’t mobile friendly, do I need to start learning mobile-first responsive design even as a beginner, or should I develop a non-RWD site and then go back later and make it responsive?
    • 47:45 What’s up with Haxe? It’s an open source platform that can compile to many different things, including the mobile platform.
    • 51:56 What are the Pros and Cons of using Drupal vs Joomla these days?
      • 57:04 How do you guys work with Git?

      Sponsors:

      • 32:15 BlendConf SEPTEMBER 5 – 7, 2013, Charlotte, NC
        • 3 tracks / 40 talks. 20% off with the discount code ‘shoptalk’
      • 45:52 Environments for Humans OCTOBER 21–23, 2013, The Stanley Hotel in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, U.S. All the top people awesome at CSS will be there. Plus, SMACSS workshop!!!

        • Show Links:

        • Rick’s Website
        • Rick on Twitter
        • Appcellerator
        • Titanium Framework
        • PhoneGap
        • Responsive.io
        • Resrc.it
        • Sencha
        • Gitflow
          • ...more
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