Dec 10
In this article we present the most popular job sites for designers and developers
Sep 23
Today we presents a collection of best Firefox extensions for September 2010.
Aug 13
Today we presents a collection of most useful Firefox extensions for developers.
Jul 20
Today we present roundup of interesting tutorials, articles and examples for iPhone developers.
Apr 21
At JSConf, I was fortunate enough to nab some great developers and interview them about their work. Guys like Kyle Simpson, John-David Dalton, Pete Higgins and more gave me some of their conference time to tell me about their projects and how they’re helping the JavaScript community:
JSConf 2010 Organizer Chris Williams
Jeffrey Van Gogh & Matthew Podwysocki talk about RxJS – Reactive Extensions for JavaScript
I’ve posted five more so be sure to check the rest of them out.
Apr 05
Firefox was the Web runtime that gave us the best Web developer tools… some built-in, and then the likes of Firebug. We are seeing more, newer tools coming out of Mozilla. David Dahl, Firefox engineer, is working on a fun new console heads up display:
Create an interactive Console to help web developers understand everything that happens during the creation of a web-page. Console entries will be time-stamped objects representing errors, network traffic, javascript events, DOM/HTML mutation and logging output. The Console will also have an interactive command line for evaluating javascript against the current webpage and an interactive Workspace window for entering and evaluating larger blocks of code.
For web-developers, the Console should include a logging API and a richer interactive environment for executing live javascript against the active webpage.
The Console should fully-replace the existing Error Console window.
Check out the milestone releases to see some of the fun stuff coming.
- HTTP traffic observation and logging
- DOM Mutation event logging
- W3C Timing Spec
Nice work!
Apr 02
I am sure that a fair few of you have your iPad order honing in from China (I got a WiFi one and use Mobile Hotspot when I need to use the carrier networks. Some fun deals right now ;). As the Quake demo shows, you can do a lot with the Web, and we can reach the iPad too!
You may want to prepare your Web content for the iPad which involves weaning off of 320×480 (it feels like tn3270 days!).
This means that you can delete your:
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<meta name=“viewport” content=“width=320″> <!— WRONG //—>
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and get into:
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</meta><meta name=“viewport” content=“width=device-width”>
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which we talk about in webOS land too, which is important over there on the height side of the equation (with Pixi and Pre).
It feels good that iPad will help us all move on and deal with very different screen resolutions and capabilities.
Beyond that, there are some cool Web experiments happening, such as the iPad thumboard. Check it out live and enjoy the rotate button :)
But what about getting apps to the iPad without learning obscure variants of C with lots of square brackets (heh :)?
Well, the PhoneGap crowd has their first app and Titanium has theirs too.
Mar 17
Disclaimer: Ben and I work for Palm and created this program. I wanted to make sure that you were aware of it over here, since Web developers have a great chance of getting some $ :)
At Palm we wanted to reward the mobile Web developers who build great applications that our users can enjoy. We didn’t want to do an “Mobile App Idol”. For one, I didn’t want to play the role of Simon (being the token Brit and all), and for two we find it hard to judge correctly.
So, we came up with the Hot Apps program that rewards based on the market (which while not perfect, takes out emotion from the judging system).
We put in 1 million dollars, and wanted to be sure to reward two sets of developers… those that created paid apps, and those that generously offered up their code for free. It is kinda fun to be able to say “oh, thanks for giving this away for free, but here is a reward for your hard work.”
We also didn’t want to just give money to the top couple of developers, but wanted to spread the love (whilst still having prize amounts that are meaningful). If you take a look at Project Appetite you can do some math on how you still have a great chance to make some $ if you get a great app into the competition.
So, if you fancy flexing some Web skills in mobile…. consider giving a run for Hot Apps.
Want to see some of the tools and a quick app build? Here is a screencast walkthrough that shows building a simple webOS app taken from a look at a helper script that I wrote:
