Rapid Prototyping With PhoneGap

Last week I gave a presentation to a local DC Meetup group on “Rapid Prototyping with PhoneGap“. The main takeaways are: PhoneGap is great for rapid prototyping. Don’t limit yourself to a prototype! PhoneGap is awesome for building real-world production applications targeting multiple platforms! You can check out my presentation here: Rapid Prototyping with PhoneGap.pdf […]

Data Visualization with Web Standards

I recently spoke at the 360|Flex conference in Devner, CO on “Data Visualization with Web Standards”.  This presentation was focused upon techniques for presenting data in an easily-consumable visual manner using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript.  Below you can view my presentation slides and a brief summary. Web-Standards-Data-Viz.pdf Basically, there are 5 general ways to visualize […]

Multi-Device Best Practices

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 […]

Odd WebKit Bug with Elements

I stumbled upon a really odd bug in my current project, which I can only attribute to the WebKit browser engine, since I was able to recreate this in a UIWebView on iOS (in PhoneGap) and in Chrome on OS X – WebKit is the common engine in both. It’s a bizarre issue that is […]

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 […]

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, […]

Tricks for Debugging PhoneGap Applications in Desktop Browsers

I often encourage people to develop as much as possible in desktop browsers when they are building PhoneGap applications.  While there are remote debugging tools such as weinre for remote debugging on devices, the developer experience is still better inside of a desktop browser because it gives you breakpoints and memory inspection capabilities.  In most […]

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! […]