May 20th, 2012
As a developer evangelist for Adobe, I use Twitter often to keep up with the latest trends, announcements, and more. I’ve often been frustrated that the Twitter website and twitter apps all use one column which only takes advantage of about 1/9th of my large monitor. I’ve been looking for a good project to beef [...]
May 2nd, 2012
If you live anywhere near Tampa or Orlando and have an interest in building mobile apps using web standards, you need to come to one of the following two local events: Tampa — 5/9/2012 6:00PM please RSVP on the site – if it’s full, try again later in the day Orlando — 5/8/2012 6:00PM EDT [...]
Apr 30th, 2012
The May 2012 issue of Appliness is now available for your iPad and Android tablet. This issue has over 100 pages of content including tons of code samples and interactive demos. If you are a JavaScript developer, this is something you should subscribe to. It’s free. May 2012 table of contents: CSS Regions and CSS [...]
Mar 28th, 2012
Today, the Adobe evangelists team has launched a new digital magazine called Appliness. If you have an iPad or Android tablet, you can grab a free copy now! The Kindle Fire version will be available any day (we’re waiting on Amazon to approve – their backlog is 2 weeks!). This will be a monthly magazine [...]
Nov 3rd, 2011
A great way to learn a lot about PhoneGap — http://phonegap.com/2011/11/03/relive-phonegap-day-with-videos/
Oct 21st, 2011
One of the challenges in the world of HTML/JavaScript/CSS app development is cobbling together your kitchen sink of frameworks, tools and other technologies. When you start looking around, it feels like there is an endless list of options, which is good and bad! Recently, I’ve been gathering a list of what’s popular these days and [...]
Oct 6th, 2011
DISCLAIMER: The following is my personal opinion and not necessarily that of my employer (Adobe Systems, Inc.). The PhoneGap announcement at MAX 2011 really got a lot of people excited (including me!), and it raised a few questions about how it changes our jobs as evangelists. PhoneGap gives us the means to build cross-platform apps with [...]
Oct 6th, 2011
Earlier this week at Adobe MAX, it was announced that Adobe had started the process (signed a definitive agreement) of acquiring Nitobi, the makers of PhoneGap. After this announcement, I had multiple conversations with conference attendees and found that several of them really had no idea what PhoneGap is. Some thought it was a JavaScript [...]
Apr 11th, 2011
Today there are several ways to build apps for mobile devices. You can write native apps using the device OS SDK and get great results for that OS, but if you need to write apps that work across Android, iOS and QNX (Blackberry PlayBook), it’s not a very productive path because you basically end up [...]