I recently spoke at the 360|Flex conference in Devner, CO on “Multi-Device Best Practices”. This presentation was focused upon multi-device & multi-platform development strategies for both PhoneGap and Flex/AIR applications. Below you can view my presentation slides and source code, and a brief summary. Multi-Device-Best-Practices.pdf First, I gave an overview of mobile & multi-platform with AIR […]
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US Census Browser v2.0
I am happy to announce the US Census Browser version 2.0! Back in December of 2011, I released the US Census Browser as an open source application intended to demonstrate principles for enterprise-class data visualization and applications developed with web standards. This version has some fairly substantial changes – See the video below to check out features […]
Introducing app-UI
I’d like to take a moment and introduce app-UI, a new open source application framework that I’ve been working on. app-UI is a collection of reusable “application container” user interface components that may be helpful to web and mobile developers for creating interactive applications using HTML and JavaScript, especially those targeting mobile devices. app-UI is […]
Welcome Appliness!
Appliness is a new digital magazine and the first of it’s kind to focus entirely on web application development! Appliness was created entirely using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, and the effort was lead by our own Michael Chaize. Go download a copy today! It’s also FREE! Be sure to also check out […]
Who Uses PhoneGap/Apache Cordova?
I see questions and comments all the time with the general sentiment “it looks nice, but who really uses PhoneGap/Apache Cordova?”. There is no way to create a definitive list of everyone who uses it, but the general answer is “more people than you think”. Here are a few organizations that you might recognize who […]
PhoneGap Explained Visually
I’ve been “out and about” lately, attending tech conferences, meetup groups, and meeting with developers in their offices, and I am getting great feedback on mobile development and PhoneGap. There are some common questions that I am often asked, and I hope this post helps everyone understand PhoneGap better. PhoneGap Before I go too far, […]
Changes with PhoneGap 1.5
Earlier this month, PhoneGap 1.5 was released. There were a lot of enhancements in this release. However, if you’ve tried to update an existing codebase from PhoneGap 1.4 to 1.5, you may have realized that things look a bit different. Basically, the entire PhoneGap codebase has migrated from PhoneGap naming to Apache Cordova […]
Pushing Data to a PhoneGap Web View
UPDATE: In PhoneGap 1.5, the naming conventions were changed to use the Apache Cordova naming conventions. EX: PGPlugin is now CDVPlugin, phonegap.js is now cordova.js, etc… If you are running into issues, please be sure to check the PhoneGap version and appropriate naming conventions. ORIGINAL POST: In my last post, which gave a crash […]
PhoneGap Native Plugins
UPDATE: In PhoneGap 1.5, the naming conventions were changed to use the Apache Cordova naming conventions. EX: PGPlugin is now CDVPlugin, phonegap.js is now cordova.js, etc… If you are running into issues, please be sure to check the PhoneGap version and appropriate naming conventions. ORIGINAL POST: Last night I attended a great Baltimore […]
Slides from “Introduction to Mobile Development with PhoneGap”
As promised, here are the slides from my presentation “Introduction to Mobile Development with PhoneGap” from the MobileDev@TU meetup last night. Many thanks to Towson University for hosting the event and inviting me to speak! You can download the slides here: Intro To PhoneGap Here are quick links from the presentation: Get started with PhoneGap today! […]