I’m currently prototyping an iPad application and I’ve just found working with jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap to be a breeze for mobile application development. I’ve used iOS SDK before and I’ve experimented on test applications with Android and I’ve always found issues with both the iOS and Android development frameworks. I’ve also looked into cross [...]
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As mobile devices become more and more entrenched and as more mobile devices become available there is a growing number of people that want to quickly develop an idea into an app. Developers of all sorts are picking up Objective-C to develop the next top selling mobile-based and touch enabled app. If you don’t want [...]
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One way to speed up loading of a website is to use Content Distribution Networks (CDN) for resources that don’t update often, such as JavaScript, images, and CSS. A good CDNs for a large site can run into the thousands of dollars, fortunately for those that rely on JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery, Prototype, and [...]
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I think of bookmarklets as a way to greasemonkey patch a webpage with custom JavaScript not approved by the author of the website you are visiting. Bookmarklets are a bit of JavaScript that you save as a bookmark and when visiting a page, if you click on that bookmark, the JavaScript will run on the [...]
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Twenty-five percent of AJAX is the J part, the JavaScript. When working with dynamic data coming from the back end you must create the necessary DIV containers and HTML elements and append the new new elements into the document body. In FireFox you can create a new element using the createElement method on the document [...]
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Google has a YouTube channel with over 1000++ videos of presentations on a large number of programming and software development topics. Here are the top videos recently released in the Google Tech Talks channel regarding JavaScript and web performance that every web developer should see. JavaScript: The Good Parts / Douglas Crockford – In JavaScript [...]