Jarrett T.K.O.’s Lunch & Learn: Intro to Knockout

For May’s Lunch & Learn, Web Engineer at VOKAL, Jarrett Widman, dropped some knowledge on using Knockout and the MVVM pattern . He introduced the concepts of two-way databinding, how MVVM is different than MVC, and showed a number of…

NSCoder Meet-Up Last Night

For the last couple months, Sean Wolter of VOKAL has been hosting the NSCoder Chicago meet-ups at the VOKAL offices and Mobile Makers campus.  On the last Tuesday of every month, fellow Chicago developers get together to enjoy libations, pizza…

Some Mobile Web Considerations for Native App Designers

As web apps increase in popularity in the mobile space, designs traditionally built for native iOS or Android apps have started to find their way into the hands of web developers.  Web development and native app development can pose some…

This Month’s Lunch & Learn: Making Comics?

Everyone has a pet project that may either devour many an evening here, a weekend there, or perhaps has become a full-time commitment. Max Bare from the VOKAL design team falls into the semi-committed category. For this month’s Lunch &…

Vokal Wall Draw Continues…

We tend to immerse ourselves in many of our projects here at VOKAL and the offices themselves are certainly no exception. In the continuance of this effort, the VOKAL design team has been taking a periodic evening or weekend to…

Mixer for The Mobile Makers Academy End of Semester

Last week The Mobile Makers Academy celebrated the End of their Fall 2012 Semester with what else but a night filled with pizza, libations and good times. The mixer was hosted at VOKAL’s shiny new 4th floor expanded offices. Below…

Ping Pong Tourney and Other Feats of Strength

Last night was the first (of hopefully many) Building-Wide Ping Pong Tourney, this time hosted at VOKAL offices.  Drinks were consumed, folks were mingling and competition was of course furious (and sportsmanly). Below are some epic highlights of epicness. VOKAL’s…

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween from the VOKAL family!!!  Today was “Dress Up Like Andy (Don’t Tell Andy) Day”, Doppelgängers abounds at the VOKAL office this morning, as we paid homage to director of business development, sales guru and all around swell guy,…

New VOKAL Office Under Way!

Exciting developments! The expansion of VOKAL Interactive offices is well underway. A day of drywalling going up and overhead lights customized to VOKAL green. Soon we’ll have another floor for our ever-expanding ranks of designers and engineers. Soon our wonderful…