Mobile Apps, Cognitive Computing, & Wearables

Last week I was in good ‘ole Las Vegas for IBM InterConnect – IBM’s largest conference of the year. With over 20,000 attendees, it was a fantastic event that covered everything from technical details for developers to forward-looking strategy and trends for C-level executives. IBM also made some big announcements for developers – OpenWhisk serverless […]

IBM Acquires StrongLoop – Leveling Up Node.js in the Enterprise

Today IBM announced the acquisition of StrongLoop, Inc,  leaders in enterprise development on Node.js and major contributors to Express, LoopBack, and other Node.js tools and frameworks. Node.js is an incredible tool for rapidly building highly performant and scalable back end systems, and you develop it using a familiar core language that most front-end developers are already accustomed […]

Complete Walkthrough and Source Code for “Building Offline Apps”

I recently put together some content on building “Apps that Work as Well Offline as they do Online” using IBM MobileFirst and Bluemix (cloud services).  There was the original blog post, I used the content in a presentation at ApacheCon, and now I’ve opened everything up for anyone use or learn from. The content now lives […]

New UI Article and Architectural Presentation on PhoneGap

A couple of PhoneGap related activities I’ve been up to recently… First, an article I recently wrote on Creating a Card-based UI in PhoneGap has been published on DZone.  Be sure to check it out for some tips on creating the user interface, all with just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.   This covers both basic/static […]

PhoneGap & Hardware Session Video now Available

The recording for my session “PhoneGap and Hardware” from PhoneGap Day back in July is now available! Be sure to check it out. There were apparently some issues with the audio, but you can still hear everything. I’d like to express a huge Thank You to everyone who attended, and to everyone who watches this video! […]

Status Tap/Scroll To Top in PhoneGap Apps on iOS

One criticism of PhoneGap apps that I sometimes hear is that they often don’t have “standard” features from the native operating system.  Little things, like iOS’s ability to scroll a container back to the top, just by tapping on the operating system’s status bar. These types of features are not hard to add to a […]

The Web Just Got A Whole Lot More Awesome

Lots of awesome web-related stuff has been happening over the last few days. Here’s a quick summary, with links to learn more… iOS 7 & Safari have new Web Platform Features This includes CSS Regions, Clip Paths, and Canvas Blend Modes… read more on the Adobe Web Platform Team blog. Adobe Edge Reflow & Adobe Edge […]

Porting A PhoneGap App To Firefox OS

About a year ago I released the Fresh Food Finder, a multi-platform mobile application built with PhoneGap. The Fresh Food Finder provides an easy way to search for farmer’s markets near your current location, based on the farmer’s markets listings from the USDA. This app has seen a lot of popularity lately, so I’m working […]

PhoneGap Day: PhoneGap & Hardware

I’d like to express a huge Thank You to everyone who attended PhoneGap Day in Portland last week, and to Colene and the team that put everything together! The day was loaded with fantastic presentations, and great community interaction… tons of information, tons of great questions, and tons of great people (oh, and beer – it […]

Fresh Food Finder Featured in SELF Magazine

I am very excited to share that the Fresh Food Finder PhoneGap application which I built last summer was recently featured in the June 2013 issue of SELF Magazine. This app was built as a demonstration/sample application for PhoneGap, but has gained popularity for being an easy way to find farmers markets by leveraging the […]