Insights

As active members in the tech community, we get invited to a lot of meet-ups, conferences and events. There are few we enjoy as much as the Mozilla Festival, which is renowned for bringing together web developers and designers to celebrate creative ideas and innovative technical talent. Here are the important key themes which we took from the event.

Mozilla Festival (MozFest) is a playground for web developers and web designers, who come together to celebrate great ideas and shape the web of the future. Two web developers from Cyber-Duck, Benjamin Maugain and Alex Miller, presented a workshop explaining how JavaScript can convert a tweet into Morse code by flashing the LED lights on an Arduino.

Here at Cyber-Duck, we are big advocates of responsive web design (RWD). It is a future-friendly approach that ensures that your website assumes less about your users, from their connection speed to their screen size. When implemented well, the result is a website that looks and (more importantly) works great across any device or browser.

The BIMA Digital Day is a national event where the UK’s top digital agencies mentor kids in schools. Cyber-Duck, a Hertfordshire digital agency guided Bushey Meads kids through a native app design project. Craig recounts the day he went back to school.

Earlier in October, the Ducks went on a day out to Warwick Castle. We enjoyed a comprehensive tour of the medieval landmark, as well as lessons in archery, sword fighting and marching in straight lines, which proved to be a huge challenge. Here's a photo montage of the best bits!

Matt Gibson will be featured on tonight’s episode of Watchdog on BBC One. Cyber-Duck was asked to help the program to review shopping websites which may confuse some users into paying for more than they bargained for.

Cyber-Duck's crime information application, developed as part of the Spring Hackathon in May this year, has been featured in the industry leading magazine for the teams innovative use of JavaScript.

On 13th of September 2013, front-end developers from across Europe gathered in Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, to talk CSS.

Last night, Thursday 26th September, the Digital Pond reconvened for an evening of learning and networking at the Old Sessions House, Farringdon. The night focused on user experience (UX) strategies, with great talks from Sandi Wassmer and Barry Briggs and an inspiring presentation from award-winning young coders, Team Elstree.