Our Geek Space

We have been to the top 10 places to visit in the US. From a business perspective, Silicon Valley is the place to go. We share the same passion as the area of the world’s largest technology corporations and high-tech firms: Great Ruby on Rails design & development work. Outsourcing has never been so much fun here in Uruguay. And now our Schools friends are wearing Moove-IT shirts, so we are virtually present—though also planning to re- meet in the flesh soon…

Thanks to Howard Kao, Lane Lillquist, Michael Staton, Nick Punt, and Daniel Jabbour from Inigral!

From South America with love, working offshore

80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. (YSlow Team)

By following these best practices we can have a great impact over the performance of our sites and applications.

In these slides we will go through some best practices related to performance, semantics & accessibility and patterns for better maintainability and readability which is gold when collaborating.

In the second part of the slideshow we will share some tips on how to pick the best layout available, create the slices with optimization in mind, master the basics and stay organized form the beginning with your CSS code.

About a month ago I found Pokki with a friend, Pokki is a framework that uses chromium and enables developers to make light desktop applications using only HTML5, Javascript and CSS3.

Right now it’s supported on Windows XP, Vista and 7, but there are plans to support Mac before the end of this year.

Pokki also provides an app store on your Windows taskbar that has benefits for users and developers, users are able to install or uninstall apps with only one click and developers gain a lot of visibility for their apps. In order to publish your app on the app store you need to have your app approved by the Pokki compliance team, they basically check that your app meets quality standards, design guidelines and security procedures.

So, my friend and I thought Pokki was cool enough to give it a try and we decided to make an app there. We wanted to take advantage of desktop notifications pokki has, and I’m an avid reddit user, that’s why we decided to make an app to check your messages, comment replies and latest news from reddit.

In the meantime we found out that there was a contest to win a Samsung Galaxy Tab for the best app submitted before August 1st, so that was our deadline!

I also gave a talk at moove-it to present Oranged and share all the stuff I learned working with Pokki. It was really nice to see other people excited on what we were doing and people interested on working on their own pokkies.

We made our best effort to make it on time and we submitted Oranged 4 minutes before the contest ended. Unfortunately our app was rejected because it had some bugs and didn’t have the expected quality. Nevertheless the people from pokki were very excited with our app and told us to keep working on it because they really liked the app.

So we kept working on it and submitted Oranged a couple of days ago, this time it was accepted! We didn’t win a tablet but we are very happy for what we’ve accomplished together.

Here it is…

If you are a redditor give it a try and I’m sure you will like it.

You can also check the source code here, we used jquery templates, css3, localStorage and other cool stuff.

Last weekend four members of moove-it took part in the rally on rails (www.rallyonrails.com).

• Pablo Ifran
• Gonzalo Arreche
• Juan Pablo Blanco
• Ivan Etchart

Rally on Rails is a competition to make a Web app from scratch in 48 hours ! Obviously this project/game/etc had to be made in rails !

Our team created www.buscandoatanatos.com a game about the search for “Tánatos” (the leader of Sotirias … a secret organization). Based on Google street view , rails, and a lot of gems.

Here go some pictures of this weekend …

Cast your vote from 18 to 20 of August … www.rallyonrails.com