As promised, here are my presentation slides and extra content from last week’s RIACon conference. I gave three presentations: “Intro to PhoneGap”, “Data Visualization With Web Standards”, and “PhoneGap Native Plugins”. All of the presentations are freely available at: https://github.com/triceam/Presentations. Intro To PhoneGap Click to view presentation PhoneGap is an application container that allows you to […]
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Emulating PhoneGap/Cordova Apps in the Desktop Browser
Earlier this month the PhoneGap team held the first PhoneGap day. This was in part to celebrate the release of PhoneGap 2.0, but more importantly to bring together members of the PhoneGap community to share and learn from each other. There are great recaps of PhoneGap Day from RedMonk, as well as on the […]
Upcoming Conferences & Presentations
I’ll be speaking at a few conferences in the next few months on PhoneGap and web standards-based development. Here are just a few, with some more pending. Be sure to come check one out (or all of them)! RIACON www.riacon.com WHERE: Washington, DC WHEN: Aug 6-7, 2012 Where architects and developers of all levels come […]
MegaList jQuery Plugin
I’ve been working on lots of different projects lately. On several of them, I’ve had the need for a reusable list component. In some cases, it needed to handle a large data set, in others it just needed to be self-contained and easy to use. Out of these projects came MegaList: a reusable list […]
Introducing the Fresh Food Finder, an open source PhoneGap application
The Fresh Food Finder is an open source mobile application built using PhoneGap (Apache Cordova) that helps users locate local farmers markets that are registered with the FDA. You can search for specific markets, or find the closest markets to your current location. Check out the video below to see it in action: It […]
Prototypal Inheritance & Strategies for Debugging Tough Problems
I recently ran into an issue on app-UI where child views were having their touch/mouse event listeners removed once another view was pushed onto the stack in the ViewNavigator component. If you haven’t seen it yet, app-UI is a collection of reusable “application container” components for building native-like mobile experiences for apps built with web technologies. It is still in […]
Transcript from Open Session on PhoneGap
Yesterday Raymond Camden and I hosted an open session on PhoneGap. It was an opportunity for the community (you) to ask us questions. There was a great turnout, and we’ll likely be hosting another one of these sessions in the near future. Thanks to everyone who attended! Check these links to see the full Q&A […]
A Response to “Shell Apps and Silver Bullets”
There is an article floating around the web today, warning against “Shell Apps” and tools like PhoneGap. The logic in this article has a few arguments that are misleading, and I’d like to introduce some counter arguments as they relate to PhoneGap and HTML experiences for comparison. The “Silver Bullet” First, the “Silver Bullet” argument… I have […]
Open Session on PhoneGap
Curious about PhoneGap? Have questions? Tomorrow, fellow Adobe Evangelist Ray Camden and I are hosting a 2 hour Adobe Connect session on PhoneGap. This will be an open session for your questions, not a presentation. The Connect URL is: http://my.adobeconnect.com/adobehtml. The date/time is Tuesday 2PM EST to 4PM EST (11AM PST to 1PM PST).
Debugging App-UI with Adobe Shadow
Adobe Shadow has been out for over a month now, and I’ve finally had a chance to start integrating it into my development workflow. Shadow is a new tool that provides you with a synchronized desktop & mobile browsing experience, and it even lets you inspect & modify the HTML DOM on the remote devices. […]