Updated: Parallax Effects in Hybrid/Web Apps

A while back I wrote about adding parallax effects to your HTML/JS experiences to make them feel a bit richer and closer to a native experience.  I’ve just added this subtle (key word *subtle*) effect to a new project and made a few changes I wanted to share here. If you are wondering what I […]

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 […]

PhoneGap Presentations from HTML5DevConf

I was  searching the web earlier this week for an older presentation from a few months back, and just happened to stumble across my recent presentations from HTML5DevConf from this past October. Looks like the videos were posted in November, but I’m just seeing them now. I had two sessions: Designing and Architecting PhoneGap and Mobile Web Apps […]

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. […]

PhoneGap & Hardware Session Video now Available

The recording for my session “PhoneGap and Hardware” from PhoneGap Day back in July is now available! Be sure to check it out. There were apparently some issues with the audio, but you can still hear everything. I’d like to express a huge Thank You to everyone who attended, and to everyone who watches this video! […]

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 […]

New Version of My Halloween PhoneGap App

With Halloween less than a month away, I figured it’s about time to update my “Instant Halloween” PhoneGap sound effects app. I’m happy to say that the latest version is now out for both iOS and Android. It has a few new sounds, a new UI style, and has been updated for iOS 7. I […]