We have designed a course on JavaScript RIA development for Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden. These post tells the story of our efforts trying to wrench advanced JavaScript theory into the conservative world of Academia.

The main focus of Krawaller is to utilize our existing web technology skills in creating smartphone applications, mainly targetting iPhone and Android.

In our never-ending quest to better ourselves in the frontend field, we rely quite heavily on our well-stocked bookshelf. Here we share reviews of our latest acquisitions!

Our first major foray into mobile applications was Golingo, a lovingly crafted word game made with web technologies. Read up below on what the game is about, the creation, and where to snoop through the open-sourced (!) code.

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Advanced JavaScript in Academia - Killing my darlings

Here we continue the story on our trials while developing the uni course on JavaScript.

In a previous post, I described the raison d’être for a new course in Advanced JavaScript at Linnaeus University, Sweden. As a quick synopsis, suffice to say that there simply isn’t any course at all (in Sweden at least) teaching any front-end theory from this side of the Ajax revolution, it’s all framesets and DHTML. Linnaeus University, recognising both...

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Advanced JavaScript in Academia - developing a new course for Linnaeus University

The how and why behind our developing of a new course on Advanced JavaScript for Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden.

This post details the inception of a newly started course in Advanced JavaScript at Linnaeus University in the city of Kalmar, Sweden. I hope to follow this up with more posts detailing the journey of trying to wedge the RIA revolution into the conservative world of academia!

As all us Crockford fanboys and Ajaxian hangarounds...

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