When you are developing a mobile app (or website, or mobile web, or TV app, etc..) you should always ask yourself “What kind of an impact does this have on the end user?” It doesn’t matter whether you are creating enterprise apps or games, or anything in between. Every development decision that you make should be […]
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So, What is IBM MobileFirst?
I’m still “the new guy” on the MobileFirst team here at IBM, and right away I’ve been asked by peers outside of IBM: “So, what exactly is MobileFirst/Worklight? Is it just for hybrid apps?” In this post I’ll try to shed some light on IBM MobileFirst, and for starters, it is a lot more than just […]
IBM Worklight Powered Native Objective-C iOS Apps
IBM MobileFirst Foundation (also known as IBM Worklight) is a middleware solution for developing mobile applications. Out of the box, Worklight enables security and authentication, device management, encrypted storage, operational analytics, simple cross platform push notifications, remote logging, data access, and more… Historically, most people think that Worklight is just for creating hybrid mobile (HTML-powered) applications. While […]
Embarking Upon A New Adventure
I’m excited to finally announce that I have embarked upon a new adventure! Today marks my first day as a MobileFirst Developer Advocate for IBM! So, what does that mean? It is very similar to what I was doing back at Adobe focusing on developers. I’m excited to engage with the development community around building […]
DevNexus 2014 PhoneGap Presentations
I’ve just wrapped up my presentations for this year’s DevNexus event in Atlanta – it has been a great event, filled with tons of information on web, mobile, and back-end development. I had 3 sessions on PhoneGap – One intro, one advanced, and one a mobile frameworks panel. Below are my presentations. I didn’t record […]
Automating PhoneGap Builds
I’ve recently had several conversations with PhoneGap users around processes for automating the compilation of PhoneGap apps. This could be either in automated tasks using Grunt, Ant, Maven, or any other task manager, or could be in continuous integration environments like Jenkins CI. If you’re interested in this, here are a few options… First of all, PhoneGap Build […]
New UI Article and Architectural Presentation on PhoneGap
A couple of PhoneGap related activities I’ve been up to recently… First, an article I recently wrote on Creating a Card-based UI in PhoneGap has been published on DZone. Be sure to check it out for some tips on creating the user interface, all with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This covers both basic/static […]
HTML5 Dev Conf Wrap-up: Snap.svg, Visual Storytelling & PhoneGap
HTML5 Developer Conference just wrapped up in San Francisco, and it was a great event. There was a lot to see and hear from the entire HTML/JS community. Adobe showed off some amazing showcases of the work that is being done with rich layout on the web and released an awesome new SVG library, Snap.svg. […]
Status Tap/Scroll To Top in PhoneGap Apps on iOS
One criticism of PhoneGap apps that I sometimes hear is that they often don’t have “standard” features from the native operating system. Little things, like iOS’s ability to scroll a container back to the top, just by tapping on the operating system’s status bar. These types of features are not hard to add to a […]
Porting A PhoneGap App To Firefox OS
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 […]