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by Aaron Amstutz, Web Developer
We were recently using PhoneGap on an iPad specific JavaScript app (HTML5 in PhoneGap with Drupal data backend FTW!) and ran into a problem with the first gen iPad's RAM capability. For this specific project we just needed to disable some functionality for iPad 1 users, so I (with some objective C help from Chris) cobbled together a quick iPad version detection plug-in. Read More…
by Aaron Amstutz, Web Developer
Michael Brooks, @mwbrooks Open Source Designers are needed. Tech writers are really, really needed. "I want to join, but I'm afraid of criticism and making mistakes." Criticism is part of writing code. You will make mistakes, but no one cares, its part of the learning process. All Projects are different Read More…
by Aaron Amstutz, Web Developer
Andrew Lunny @alunny & Hardeep Shoker @hardeepshoker Andrew was the person who named it Callback, he's the bad person. PhoneGap Build is an Adobe product in public beta, and free for now. Build builds apps in the cloud: upload code download apps Features: Six mobile platforms an API Collaborations Debugging - hosted weinre server git & Github - tight integration Observations/Whining: (his words, not mine) Read More…
by Aaron Amstutz, Web Developer
Works at IBM @pmuellr Weinre has a lot of functionality from webkit web inspector, he worked on building web inspector. Adobe Shadow version is handy and cool- http://debug.shadow.adobe.com:8080/. You can also install via npm, sudo npm -g install weinre Read More…
by Aaron Amstutz, Web Developer
James Burke - works at Mozilla @jrburke Why webapps? They deploy everywhere! Phonegap, B2G/Firefox OS, wavysandbox/install helps get your code on a device. Volo, cool CLI javascript package manager. Require.js, AMD modules The Great Sadness (you are the linker, browser only, disparate automation) Normal Read More…
by Aaron Amstutz, Web Developer
Pamela Fox - @pamelafox She used to work for google, was on the Wave project. When she quit Google, she decided to build her own app. Question was: native? cross-compiled (Titanium? Hybrid? Decided on a combination of PhoneGap + twitter bootstrap + zepto.js The easy part: Making it work.The hard part: Making it work WELL. (I totally agree.) Read More…
by Aaron Amstutz, Web Developer
We have two toads at PhoneGap Day here in Portland - you can follow the conference on Twitter #pgday. I'll be live blogging the event. Here is what's new in PhoneGap 2.0: Read More…
by Aaron Amstutz, Web Developer
I recently helped a friend with a couple bugs they were fixing on a mobile site, and suddenly realized that there is a good basic list of tools that folks should have in their frontend dev kit. Robbie wrote a little while ago about some of the front end (CSS/CSS3) tools he uses, so I thought I'd add to the list, and lean a bit more toward debugging. Read More…
by Aaron Amstutz, Web Developer
CSS3 animations are finally becoming a useful tool in the front end developer's kit! Browser support is progressing, however there is no IE support yet (surprised?) and Opera currently doesn't support animations, but may in the future. Despite the plethora of vendor prefixes to keep track of, one can really pull off some interesting animations; transforms and transitions anyone? Read More…