Archive for the ‘Programming’ Category

Twitter Bootstrap with Html5 Boilerplate’s Build

Posted in Blog, CSS, HTML5, Javascript, Less, Mobile, Programming, Twitter Bootstrap, ant, code on Monday, February 20th, 2012 at 5:12 pm No Comments

Twitter bootstrap is a great piece of kit. Html5 boilerplate (h5bp) is also a great piece of kit. Those of you who have used h5bp know it also comes bundled (or not?) with a great ant build script. This build script automagically builds, minifies, compresses,…

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Lab – Twitter Bootstrap V2

Posted in Blog, CSS, Design, HTML5, Javascript, Language, Less, Programming, Uncategorized, code on Thursday, February 9th, 2012 at 4:00 pm No Comments

The awesome duo, @mdo && @fat, of Twitter bootstrap fame have released Twitter bootstrap 2.0. In short, Twitter bootstrap is a great way to get HTML5-CSS3-JavaScript up and running with a lot of the hard work already done.

The project comes with a heap of customization…

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Vacation Hour Tracker App

Posted in Blog, Google, Javascript, Programming, Uncategorized, code, jQuery Mobile, knockout, localStorage on Monday, January 23rd, 2012 at 9:13 pm No Comments

Most of us deal with some aspect of our job/career that isn’t directly under our control. For those who do not know, I am a firefighter for a medium to large metropolitan fire department that is located 1.5 hours south of Phoenix, Az. There are many of aspects in…

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LocalStorage with Knockout.js – jQuery Mobile – jStorage

Posted in Blog, HTML5, Javascript, Programming, Uncategorized, code, jQuery Mobile, knockout, localStorage on Sunday, January 15th, 2012 at 11:10 pm No Comments

I recently started evaluating various JS libraries/frameworks and other JavaScript goodies. I just wanted to post a quick tutorial when working with Phonegap (Cordova) jQuery Mobile and Knockout.js.

This project uses;

  1. Cordova
  2. jQuery Mobile
  3. Knockout.js
  4. jStorage

Set a binding to a click event on the view model you want to…

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JavaScript and teh new year…

Posted in Blog, Javascript, Programming, Uncategorized, code on Friday, December 30th, 2011 at 12:07 am No Comments

Amazing.

It is really quite amazing what you can get accomplished with Javascript once you wrap mind around its subtleties. I am there. I’m launching something quite new in the next week or so…. a sort of repository.

I will have my very own LABS page in the coming…

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PhoneGap/Callback 1.3.0 – USE IT!

Posted in Android, Blog, Computer, HTML5, Java, Javascript, Programming, Uncategorized, code on Saturday, December 17th, 2011 at 11:51 pm No Comments

PhoneGap 1.2.0 broke apps when used on devices with Ice Cream Sandwich / Android 4.0.* The tag was being ignored I.e.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, minimum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />

This is not parsed by the browser in PG 1.2.0, or is parsed and parsed incorrectly which made the viewport appear…

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Adobe Changes Course

Posted in ActionScript 3, Blog, Flash, HTML5, Javascript, Language, Programming, Uncategorized, code on Friday, November 11th, 2011 at 9:55 pm No Comments

By now you’ve surely heard that Adobe has ceased all operations in regard to the mobile browser Flash player. I can’t say that I’m really surprised, but I’m concerned with how they did it and what it means long-term. It was apparently out-of-the-blue for not only the public but…

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Exciting times, choosing a platform!

Posted in ActionScript 3, Android, Blog, Design, Flash, Java, Language, Programming, UI, UX, Uncategorized, code, iOS on Monday, October 3rd, 2011 at 9:01 pm No Comments

As I sit here and write this post; I have an ActionScript 3 project open, a Flash Pro project open and a vanilla Java project open. Earlier I was working in Xcode on an HTML5/JavaScript Phonegap project.

I know what you are thinking; “This dude is a freakin’…

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AS3 MadComponents Tutorial Series – Separation of Concerns

Posted in ActionScript 3, Blog, Flash, Language, MadComponents, Portfolio, Programming, Tutorial, Uncategorized, code on Sunday, September 4th, 2011 at 4:42 pm 5 Comments

Best practices for programming tell us separation of concerns, encapsulation and modularity are desirable in most, but not all, application contexts. A complex app with many views and/or items could quickly get out of control in a plethora of ways within the monolithic class context.

The project I’m working on has nearly 50 separate views and…

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AS3 MadComponents Tutorial Series – Starting Out

Posted in ActionScript 3, Blog, Flash, MadComponents, Portfolio, Programming, Tutorial, UI, Uncategorized on Friday, September 2nd, 2011 at 6:45 pm 2 Comments

MadComponents is an AWESOME ActionScript 3 library for mobile UI design and App development. It is really lightweight, fast and doesn’t use any of the FLEX framework*. MadComponents provides all the tools to make really nice functional mobile apps with Flash. One can choose to use…

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