The TouchPad from HP heads to market on Friday, that’s today. It looks pretty cool, and Jason Snell has an optimistic review at Macworld, with many points to recommend it. WebOS opens the door to Web Standards developers, which may deepen the wealth of apps. HP has built ‘HPplay’, a […]
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This is another excerpt from the upcoming book “Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices” by Earle Castledine, Myles Eftos and Max Wheeler. BuildMobile is exclusively publishing a complete chapter from the book, the chapter on Mobile Web Apps, this is the second section on Events. 2. Events For many […]
The tech media has spent the vast majority of the last week focused on Google’s newest product, an ambitious platform called Google+ that the company hopes will break through their dry spell in the social arena and make them competitive. It’s early days — for many people it’s next to […]
In my previous post you saw how to navigate forward to a new page and then back either via the hardware back button or by calling the GoBack method. Quite often you’ll want to pass some data between pages, for example if a user selects a customer from a list […]
RubySource is looking for people to write on all things Ruby. We are particularly keen to cover these topics, but we’re open to any ideas you have. Best Practices. Transitioning from .NET to Ruby. Transitioning from PHP to Ruby. Transitioning from Java to Ruby. Ruby Magic. Ruby on Rails. Haml […]
We’ve been so busy releasing our two new titles, HTML5 CSS3 for the Real World and Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices – we didn’t notice that our SEO Guide sold out! Whilst we get ourselves sorted, you’ve got a great opportunity to save a whopping 50% off […]
Web designers and developers need techniques that work now while keeping an eye on what lies ahead. To do that, I’ve had one focus in every workshop I’ve taught over the past seven years: getting the best real world solutions for creating accessible websites and applications into the hands of […]
eBay is focusing on its e-commerce offerings Still driving home the importance of m-commerce, online giant eBay has agreed to acquire the 51 per cent stake in e-commerce platform Magento that it does not already own. Ebay snapped up 49 per cent of Magento last year in a bid to […]
Before there were commercials, television, or the Internet, my great-grandfather’s stories would draw crowds and fill seats. One tale he told was of Charlemagne’s court. His medium was a stage, his voice, and 150 marionettes he’d brought from Sicily to America when he immigrated in the late 19th century. His […]