Category Talks / Presentations

Tuenti voice control

Posted on February 7, 2012

Ismael González UI Designer
Michael Clark Engineer

Tuenti Voice Control is a proof-of-concept that allows users to browse Tuenti with their voice instead of using a mouse or keyboard. It was created for HackMeUp 15, a 24 hour code competition held between Tuenti engineers every quarter, and uses the Experimental Speech API available in Google Chrome since 2011.

BcnDevCon 2011: Security, Mobile and our Release Process

Posted on November 30, 2011

Diego MuñozSenior Fronted Engineer

Two weeks ago we were platinum sponsors of the Barcelona Developers Conference 2011, spending three days assisting to developer and entrepeneur talks but also speaking on three different tracks.

Google IO streaming event

Posted on May 8, 2011

Luis Peralta Tech Lead

At many of you know, it is not strange these days to see Tuenti engineers attending some of the tech events happening in Madrid (and Barcelona soon). This time, we are doing it the other way around: we will be opening our offices so that you can follow the Google IO event with part of our engineering team and other guests.

Architectural description of the new Frontend Framework

Posted on June 4, 2010

Andrzej Tuchołka Lead Code Architect
Prem Gurbani Frontend Architect

Web applications are becoming more feature rich and ever more ubiquitous, while trying to address the needs of millions of users. Server-side scalability and performance are a serious matter as farms are unceasingly expanding for high growth sites. User Interface designers are looking for novel approaches to stimulate user engagement which results in more advanced and feature-rich clients. Remaining competitive requires companies to constantly push and release new features along with overall UI redesigns. The evolution of the web paradigm requires architectural changes that use models that will increase the flexibility and address the scaling problems in terms of performance, development process and demanding product requirements. This paper presents a web architectural design that decouples several layers of a web application, while delegating all presentation related routines to the client. ...