WANTED – Rock star C++ programmers to work on WebKit
Did you know that Adobe is ramping up engineering efforts to build new features for WebKit? This is not a fork of WebKit for an upcoming product. This is WebKit trunk code commits! The WebKit Engineering team in San Francisco contributes features, bug fixes, and engineering system improvements to WebKit. They work on the WebKit [...]
Appliness – New digital magazine for JavaScript app developers!
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 [...]
Flex
The Flex team just provided some insight into what’s next for Flex - http://blogs.adobe.com/flex/2011/11/your-questions-about-flex.html
PhoneGap Day Videos now available
A great way to learn a lot about PhoneGap — http://phonegap.com/2011/11/03/relive-phonegap-day-with-videos/
JavaScript, CSS, HTML Frameworks and Tools – my list
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 [...]
Upgrading my MacBook Pro to a SSD (solid state drive)
Solid-state drives (SSDs) have been available for a few years now, but I’ve been reluctant to move to one due to some early problems that friends of mine had. When a SSD fails, there is no warning… no clicking drive sound, and no opportunity to save a few files. When it crashes, it’s instant death. [...]
Stupid PhoneGap Tricks – loading external content
Most PhoneGap apps are built so that the HTML/JS/CSS content is bundled into the app (see my previous blog post). I wondered if it was possible to load external content into the PhoneGap container, and after a few minutes of looking at the APIs, I discovered that it is doable, at least on Android (I’ll [...]
How PhoneGap impacts how we evangelize Flex
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 [...]
What is PhoneGap?
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 [...]
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