Ksetyadi's [B]Log

Last week, or two weeks ago, Firman of TeknoJurnal contacted me and notified about the new mobile framework called Blaast. I didn’t have any idea about the framework yet. From what I know, Blaast is full of Javascript code, the language I’ve known for quite sometime. He invited me to the event and I agreed to join the event.

Honestly, I have no time to touch Blaast material until the day was come. I have no idea on what should I do before the workshop until he send me an email notifying me to try out to code in Blaast even a simple ‘Hello World’ app. Escaping from the situation, I just print out the material and read it while I’m stuck in the middle of traffic. It helps a lot, but you know, reading docs without getting dirty can be misleading.

I follow the instructor, Ziyad, carefully and begin to understand the whole concepts. All of the codes are, no surprise, Javascript. The back-end concept is similar to NodeJs, take or give. The framework? I wasn’t sure about the similarities, but if you were familiar with CodeIgniter, you wouldn’t have any problem with Blaast’s application structure. At least it works for me.

Finally, here I am. With just only a small amount of time, probably around 4 – 5 hours (effectively 3 hours) full of coding, I created a little app called PicViewer. You just type a random keyword and PicViewer will view a random pic based on your keyword. I use Flickr (with YQL) to get the job done.

See the PicViewer source code here: https://github.com/ksetyadi/PicViewer.

Oh, I also granted a prize as the Best Progress App so I can bring an iPod shuffle to home. Thank you, Blaast. I’m flattered.

If you want to know more about Blaast, this page will give you a lot of information you need to know about.