I recently wrote my first article for Mashable: 10 Things to Plan for When Developing a Mobile App . In this initial post, I took a bit of business / marketing look at the process for starting a mobile app project. If you are someone who was recently tasked with managing a mobile project, …
I’ve spent the last few weeks working with Sencha Touch 2 alongside my traditional iOS development. I’ll have a lot to share coming up about Sencha Touch, but that will be in separate blog posts. I did notice however, that there were some ways that developers could become …
One of the biggest barriers to entry for Sencha Touch 2 development is the configuration that has to be done for each new project. Once you’ve mastered the process, it seems easy, but there is certainly some work involved. With each new project, you need to add in the …
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There are a few steps that need to be completed before starting serious Sencha Touch 2 development. In this tutorial, I’ll highlight these items and walk you through step by step on completing them. In addition to explaining the steps, I also provide a screencast that takes you …
Mastering an IDE is one of the most important tasks a developer can do as it will pay big dividends with the time it saves. One of the most powerful features of JetBrains WebStorm / PHPStorm is Live Templates (this feature is actually in all of the JetBrains IDE’s including IntelliJ, …
The whole EULA argument around iBooks Author is extremely over-hyped. Let’s start with the name of the new authoring tool: iBooks Author. In short, this is a tool to create iBooks . The main problem lies with our perception of desktop applications. We expect to have …
I was amazed to see yet again a lot of new devices at CES that are targeted at combining the traditional computer interaction paradigm (involving a keyboard and a mouse) with a touch interaction paradigm (typical of what we are used to seeing in modern tablets). Not surprisingly many of …
Today marks the launch of a project that I’ve become quite attached to, Jimi Hendrix : The Complete Experience. This project is an application for both the iPhone and the iPad that we ( Universal Mind ) developed in partnership with Sony Music and Experience Hendrix, LLC. The …
My tutorials for Cairngorm that I authored back in 2007 have been by far the most popular thing I have ever blogged. They have been viewed over 150,000 times, and they still get thousands of hits per month. With the move to the new blog, I wanted to be sure that everyone knew how to …
Education has been a topic on this blog many times before. Between my own time in college and my time working at Georgia Tech, I have had quite a bit of time to look at different programs. I have often asked myself, “If I were a high school senior and I wanted to be an …