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PhoneGap 2.0 Released 21 Jul 2012 | 02:57 am
PhoneGap Day Swag PhoneGap (and Cordova) got their 2.0 release today at PhoneGap Day here in Portland. The project has been moving at an insane pace so 2.0 is a good chance to take a look at everythi...
PhoneGap 2.0.0rc1 – With Command Line Goodness 19 Jul 2012 | 12:36 am
The PhoneGap team announced that PhoneGap (and Cordova) have reached release candidate one for 2.0.0. They’ll be doing the official 2.0.0 release in Portland at PhoneGap Day (go get the last few ticke...
Code Hinting in Brackets (And the Design Process) 16 Jul 2012 | 11:06 pm
I’m back from sabbatical and feeling antsy to get back to work so it was kick ass to see that the latest code checkins to Brackets have added a basic implementation of code hinting. This was always pa...
Using requestAnimationFrame to Optimize Dragging Events 26 May 2012 | 10:57 am
requestAnimationFrame is an API that was originally created by Mozilla but has found its way into Chrome and I think it has huge, huge implications for user interface. A lot of the examples I’ve seen ...
MAX Moving to Spring 2013 15 May 2012 | 03:20 pm
As Kevin posted this morning, MAX is going to be moving to Spring and the next MAX will take place on May 4-8th instead of in October. It’s a big change, but one that I’m excited about. Doing it in t...
A Response to Benjamin Sandofsky’s Shell Apps 9 May 2012 | 08:10 am
Dion Almaer retweeted an article by Benjamin Sandofsky that covers “shell apps”, or HTML/Hybrid apps in contrast to native apps. His thesis seems to be, from his post: If you plan to write an app for...
Presenting PhoneGap at the AT&T Hackathon – Seattle, April 14th 11 Apr 2012 | 06:05 pm
I’m going to be presenting/talking about PhoneGap at the AT&T Hackathon here in Seattle on Saturday, April 14th. The hackathon actually starts on Friday night, and the last one I was at was a really f...
The PhoneGap Starter Project 10 Apr 2012 | 11:54 am
As I’ve been digging more and more into PhoneGap Build I’ve also been discovering that there are some gaps in the workflow and that it’s not always easy to go from a feature I want to use to a cross-p...
Web Versus Native – Asking the Wrong Questions 3 Apr 2012 | 05:57 am
There’s been a lot of talk lately about web apps versus native. It’s not that the question has ever gone away, but just over the past couple of weeks it seems like it’s been called out a bit more in b...
Experimenting with CSS Exclusions 30 Mar 2012 | 08:14 pm
Okay, this is going to be scattered and on the cutting edge side, so buckle in. Adobe has been hard at work making the web a little bit richer when it comes to how type is displayed. A great example o...
