Halloween Fun with PhoneGap

About two weeks ago I had a random thought… “Wouldn’t it be fun to build a free Halloween sound effects app using PhoneGap?” (I tend to get excited for any holiday). I had already done a lot of work using sounds in PhoneGap apps with my LowLatencyAudio native plugin, so the groundwork had already been […]

Automated UI Testing in PhoneGap Apps

I normally don’t write posts to talk about a specific product from another company, but this is the first product that I have seen which lets you do automated UI testing in PhoneGap applications, so I figured I’d share… Automated testing is often a critical step in enterprise application development. I’m sure most everyone out […]

Presentations From Dreamforce 2012

I recently returned from a great trip to San Francisco, CA, where I was able to attend Dreamforce – Salesforce.com‘s annual conference.  Dreamforce is probably the biggest conference I’ve ever attended, with 90,000 registered attendees consuming the entire Moscone Center and all of downtown San Francisco. While only a small portion of those attendees were technical/developers, it […]

PhoneGap, Apple Rejections & UI/UX Guidelines

I’ve recently encountered some grumblings from the development community that Apple has rejected their PhoneGap apps for not being “native enough”.  By itself, that doesn’t surprise me too much – Apple has very strict rules/guidelines on what they will and will not accept into the App Store.  What did surprise me is that people were […]

Introducing “Walkable” – A New Sample App for PhoneGap

I’d like to take a moment and introduce “Walkable Restaurants” (or just “Walkable” as I like to call it), a new application that I built to demonstrate how to create PhoneGap applications using Backbone.js. Walkable Restaurants provides you with an easy way to find a bite to eat or refreshing drink anywhere in the US. […]