A few weeks ago I shared Sociogram, a sample application that demonstrates how to use the Facebook JavaScript SDK and the Graph API. A number of people have asked me for a Mobile version of the application. So here is Sociogram Mobile: a sample application that demonstrates how to integrate Facebook social features in a [...]
I have been delivering a few PhoneGap Architecture and Performance talks in recent weeks. One of the performance techniques I talk about is –no surprise– the use of Hardware (GPU) Accelerated animations when available on the device. A typical example in a mobile application, is to hardware accelerate your page transitions. Even though this capability [...]
I will be delivering a talk titled “Modern Tools for the Modern Web” at Skillsmatter in London tonight (Wednesday March 6th) at 6:30pm. It’s free and open to all. Simply register here. I’ll be going over the new Edge Tools and Services (Edge Animate, Edge Reflow, Edge Inspect, Edge Code, PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build, etc), [...]
I’m excited to be speaking at QCon London again this year. The conference is next week, from Wednesday March 6th to Friday March 8th. As always at QCon, the sessions and the speaker lineup look great. I will be speaking in the “Next Generation Mobile Apps” track on Thursday. This year I’ll go well beyond [...]
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 [...]