Thanks to all of you who attended my “Architecting a PhoneGap Application” TechLive session on Tuesday, and thanks also for the great feedback. The recording is available here. A lot of my content was based on my PhoneGap Tutorial available here. As promised, here are answers to the questions I didn’t have time to answer [...]
I’ve recently been working on a few applications that integrate with Facebook. As a reference for myself and other developers building similar applications, I thought it would be useful to put together a sample application that demonstrates some commonly used integration scenarios and workflows when using the Facebook JavaScript SDK and the Graph API. So, [...]
During the last couple of months, I have been on the road presenting our new HTML tools as part of the Create the Web tour with many other members of the team. The tour was a lot of fun with a lot of great feedback from designers and developers. The main challenge of the event [...]
I recorded a screencast providing a comprehensive overview of Edge Inspect. Watch it here: Edge Inspect is a new synchronized browsing, previewing, and remote inspection tool for designers, developers, and testers. You “drive” from Google Chrome on your computer, and all the connected devices follow along, allowing you to effortlessly preview a site or an [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I delivered a full day PhoneGap workshop at QCon San Francisco. The workshop went very well, and I thought the materials could be useful to a larger audience. So I turned the workshop instructions into more detailed tutorial instructions. This is a lot more than the usual Getting Started tutorial: [...]
A few months ago, Adobe unveiled Brackets, a new code editor for HTML, CSS and JavaScript that is written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Brackets is open source and is being developed in the open here. Brackets is still in early development and is not ready for general use yet. One thing that I’m really [...]
Every programming language, platform, or library has its go-to web site for documentation and API reference: You probably go here if you are a Java developer, here for PHP, here for Ruby, here for jQuery, here or here for your database documentation needs, etc. But where do you go for HTML, JavaScript, and CSS documentation?
I’ve always enjoyed building real-time applications. A few years ago, I built the Java back-end for the Tour of California “Tour Tracker”, and over the years, I have also been involved in several real-time Trader Desktop projects that I documented in this blog. So I thought it would be nice to explore the process of [...]
In my previous post, I shared my recent experience building a RESTful API with Node.js, MongoDB, and Express. In this post, I’m sharing the client application that uses that RESTful API. The Node Cellar application allows you to manage (retrieve, create, update, delete) the wines in a wine cellar database.
I recently used Node.js, Express, and MongoDB to rewrite a RESTful API I had previously written in Java and PHP with MySQL (Java version, PHP version), and I thought I’d share the experience… Here is a quick guide showing how to build a RESTful API using Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. Installing Node.js Go to http://nodejs.org, [...]