About a year ago I released the Fresh Food Finder, a multi-platform mobile application built with PhoneGap. The Fresh Food Finder provides an easy way to search for farmer’s markets near your current location, based on the farmer’s markets listings from the USDA. This app has seen a lot of popularity lately, so I’m working […]
Category Archives: Development
PhoneGap Day: PhoneGap & Hardware
I’d like to express a huge Thank You to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day in Portland last week, and to Colene and the team that put everything together! The day was loaded with fantastic presentations, and great community interaction… tons of information, tons of great questions, and tons of great people (oh, and beer – it […]
Fresh Food Finder Featured in SELF Magazine
I am very excited to share that the Fresh Food Finder PhoneGap application which I built last summer was recently featured in the June 2013 issue of SELF Magazine. This app was built as a demonstration/sample application for PhoneGap, but has gained popularity for being an easy way to find farmers markets by leveraging the […]
Live Editing HTML on Mobile Devices With Adobe Edge Code CC & Adobe Edge Inspect CC
Adobe Edge Inspect CC is an awesome tool for synchronized browsing experiences across both desktop and mobile devices. It is incredibly powerful, and streamlines the developer & testing workflows by reducing iterations when testing HTML/JS experiences on multiple devices. Adobe Edge Code CC is an awesome code editor for creating HTML/JS experiences. It has a […]
PhoneGap Exploration – Realtime Hardware Communication
Recently I’ve undertaken some explorations with fellow evangelist Kevin Hoyt, trying to determine how far we can push PhoneGap applications with devices and physical computing. Turns out, you can push things really far and now I’m delighted to share one of the experiments that we’ve been pursuing. I’ve been asked on more than one occasion, can you […]
DataVizDC Meetup: Images, Resources & Audio Recording
Last night I had the opportunity to give a presentation on Data Visualization With Web Standards to the DataVizDC meetup group. First of all, I’d like to thank the meetup group for hosting the event, and thank you to everyone who attended – It was a great event thanks to the excitement and energy brought […]
PhoneGap & Android Studio
Yesterday at GoogleIO, Google announced Android Studio, a new development environment for authoring Android applications. This is a great looking new IDE for Android, based off of IntelliJ IDEA, with some new Android-specific tools and features. You can read more about Android Studio on the Google Android Developers blog. One of my first tasks upon […]
Adobe MAX Videos Now Available
The keynotes and many of the session videos form Adobe MAX are now available online at tv.adobe.com/show/max-2013/, and are free for everyone to view. Keep in mind, not all videos are up yet, but will be added soon. Thanks to Ray for sharing on twitter! The first-day keynote focuses on Adobe’s evolution of Creative Cloud […]
Live Editing Server Files with Edge Code/Brackets
If you haven’t already heard of Adobe Edge Code or Brackets, it is a new HTML/CSS/JS code editor that enables a rapid development cycle by connecting directly to your browser for automatic real-time updates to the HTML content running inside the browser. This promotes rapid development, and allows you to focus on writing your code […]
PhoneGap Legends – A Sample Game App
Next week I’ll be representing Adobe at GDC 2013, and demonstrating how Adobe Creative Cloud, PhoneGap, and PhoneGap Build can be great tools for building casual gaming experiences. In preparation, I’ve been working on a gaming sample application that shows off the potential of HTML games packaged with PhoneGap. …and now I’d like to introduce you to PhoneGap […]