Visitor: Joe Schram of Sparktivity

Folks,

We'll be visited today by Joe Schram, principal and founder of Sparktivity, a local software and design consultancy.

Joe will talk a bit about his and Sparktivity's history, then answer our questions.

Professor Watson

Visitor: Andy Gospodarek of Cumulus Networks

Andy will talk with us about the server systems that drive our web apps, and how we can write fast, scalable code for those systems.

https://cumulusnetworks.com/

Guest: More from Jason Casden in-browser storage talk

browser-storage-presentation-slides.pptx Download this file

Hi Ben,

Thanks for inviting me to talk about in-browser storage today. To give a bit more context to the browser vendor fragmentation, here is a browser storage discussion involving Brendan
Eich from Mozilla:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2982990

The most publicized objection is that WebSQL was a standard bound to
just a single underlying implementation (SQLite). It seems that there
might have also some architectural objections, since the replacement
(IndexedDB) implements such a different model. I think they can both
work well from a technical perspective--it's just the fragmentation
that can be frustrating. By the way, caniuse.com can be useful when
sorting our browser support issues:

http://caniuse.com/sql-storage
http://caniuse.com/indexeddb
http://caniuse.com/namevalue-storage

Jason

Guests: Alan Cox and David Motsinger of WebAssign will visit on 12/13

Folks,

Alan Cox (director engineering) and David Motsinger (CTO) of WebAssign will visit us during final presentations on December 13.

Guests: Lee Eason and Brendan Blackwood of WebAssign visit on 11/29

Folks,

Lee Eason and Brendan Blackwood (both software engineers) will visit us from WebAssign on 11/29.

Guests: Chrissy Justice and Ben Clark of WebAssign on 11/20

Folks,

Chrissy Justice (QA analyst) and Ben Clark (UX designer) of WebAssign will sit in on critique next Tuesday, 11/20.

Guest: Jason Hibbets of Redhat on Nov 20

Folks,

Jason Hibbets of Redhat will visit us for critique on November 20. Jason is a project manager and involved in open source and community activism, including CityCamp and Southwest Raleigh.

Guest: Jennifer Capps of NCSU's Entrepreneurship Initiative visits

Folks,

Jennifer Capps of NCSU's Entrepreneurship Initiative will visit us on November 8 to give a short talk about the Initiative and its Garage.

Best,

Ben

Guest: Tom Miller of NCSU's Entrepreneurship Initiative will be at final presentations on December 13

Folks,

Tom Miller of NCSU's Entrepreneurship Initiative and Garage will visit with us during final presentations on December 13.

Best,

Ben

Guest: Ravi Devarajan will be back for final presentations on December 13

Folks,

Ravi Devarajan of SAS will be back with us for December 13 final presentations.

Best,

Ben

Guest: David Millsaps visits Thursday November 1

Folks,

David Millsaps of NewRaleigh will visit us on Thursday November 1 to give a short talk on the design of websites.

Best,

Ben

Annoucement: Rob Buhler and Simon Brown rescheduled

Folks,

We're a bit behind in assigning our projects, so we've reschedule our first two visits, from Simon Brown and Robert Buhler, to October 16 and October 25, respectively.

Best,

Ben

Guest: Ravi Devarajan of SAS will sit in on critique on October 23

Folks,

Ravi Devarajan of SAS Institute will sit in on critique with us on October 23.

Best,

Ben

Guest: Jason Casden of the NCSU library's digital initiative group will speak on November 15

Hi folks,

Jason Casden of our NC State library's Digital Library Initiatives team will visit us on November 15 to speak about local storage in web apps. The DLI team is responsible for several cool projects including WolfWalk, the library's new mobile site, and GroupFinder.

Guest: Cory Lown of NC State's Digital Library Initiatives on October 9

Hi folks,

Cory Lown of our NC State library's Digital Library Initiatives team will visit us for critique on October 9. The DLI team is responsible for several cool projects including WolfWalk, the library's new mobile site, and GroupFinder.

Guest: Simon Brown of Lionheart Software Services will visit again on November 27

Folks,

Simon Brown of Lionheart Software Services will visit us again on November 27 to talk to us about web security.

Best,

Ben

Guest: Simon Brown of Lionheart Software Services will visit us on October 2 (updated: October 16)

Folks,

Simon Brown of Lionheart Software Services will visit on October 2 (updated: October 16) to sit in on critique.

Best,

Ben

Guest: Robert Buhler of MMI PR (updated: 10/25)

Folks,

On September 25 (updated: October 25) Rob Buhler, President of MMI Public Relations, will visit with us. He'll be sitting in on critique.

Best,

Ben