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Debriefing After Warsaw's First Startup Weekend
rysiek writes "Last weekend marked the first Startup Weekend in Poland. Three days, about 100 developers and designers, 20 mentors, forming 30+ teams. The big winner — CityRace.me — will be launching soon, with a few others close on its heels. Most hackteresting project — Nest of Worlds (conceived by the Warsaw Hackerspace people) — has it all: Game of Life on hexes, with sound in pure JS (needs Firefox 4, but still awesome). There is also a lengthy summary of the network setup and problems for the network admins among you. Ralph Talmont also offers a more general write-up. Disclaimer: I was the network guy."
Thank for the writeup Rysiu, good to see Poland catching up.
It's too bad I didn't even hear about it, try to focus on publicity before the event next time - makes more sense IMHO.
please tell me which part of "I am working to iron out the incompatibilities between the browsers on my brag, but it's early in development and really, really hard, as many new HTML5 options are used (i.e. CSS3 Multicol, allowing for a nice horizontal layout)" you do not grasp? I know about the problems, I know how this website looks like in Safari and IE. guess what. as soon as I have time I will be working on that. by the way, looks great in Lynx/Links. in the meantime - "release early, release often". I wanted a horizontal layout with pure HTML/CSS and I got one. booyah! if you have some material technical advice, please share. i.e. how - without JavaScript and relying on UA Strings - can I detect which browser we are serving content to and select the proper stylesheet (yeah, conditionals for IE; nothing for Safari; got it working for Chrome/Chromium with some interesting hack). otherwise - thanks, Capt. Obvious, for your valuable input.
That's not very web 2.0y of you.