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Making orientation-aware apps with Sencha Touch last year

In my earlier explorations of Sencha Touch I noted a lot of powerful features, including the ability to adjust your UI according to the size and orientation of user's device. After poking around in the examples a bit I noticed that the example Twitter app doesn't make use of these features and …
keywords api docs, api documentation, apps, blogs, debugging tools, demo, element, exercise, explorations, iphone, iphone 4, landscape, mobile, mobile phone, orientation, screen shots, search bar, sencha, ui elements

As3 Signals Resource Roundup last year

It sometimes seems like there's a constant flood of tools that we as developers should learn to stay current. Sometimes it seems like we spend so much time staying current that it's hard to get any real work done. So it has taken me a long time to get around to trying out Robert Penner's As3 …
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Sencha Touch JavaScript mobile UI framework, now free last year

Sencha , formerly Ext JS, is one of the most important companies innovating in the open technologies market on the web today. Sencha was founded just a few years ago as a simple AJAX framework provider but has since evolved to being the provider or content curator for some of the most powerful …
keywords ajax, animation tool, application framework, blogs, building tools, code snippet, core components, core framework, design tool, javascript, javascript developers, javascript files, js, mobile, rich applications, sencha, visual components, web today

WP7 UX Introduction: Part 6 last year

This is the next part on my exploration of the new WP7's UX. This series we will explore the phone, it's UX and some early experiments I have done on the phone. In this video I show off the photo app on wp7. It combines several UI elements such as tiles, panoramas and touch even like pinch to …
keywords animation, blogs, c#, flash, microsoft, mobile, photo, silverlight, special thanks, swipe, tiles, transitions, ui, ui elements, user experience, ux, wp7, xna, zoom

Optimize Flash Content and Improving Usability on Mobile … last year

In this 3-part series for InsideRIA I will be covering best practices, tips, tricks, and other useful information to help you create optimized Flash applications for mobile devices. In this part I will cover the following subtitles: Architecting Manipulating swf Framerate for Optimization …
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Apple's iOS 4.2 delivers some welcome features for Web … last year

Yesterday saw the release of Apple iOS 4.2.1 for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. It would be fair to argue that Apple placed most of its efforts into bringing the iPad up to the same feature set as the iPhone. What I was not expecting is the inclusion of some very cool improvements to Mobile …
keywords accelerometer, blogs, canvas, data streams, end result, gpu, html5, ie9, ios, ipad, iphone, javascript, javascript engine, jquery, mobile safari, new feature, socket server, sockets, visuals, web developers

WP7 UX Introduction: Part 5 last year

This is the next part on my exploration of the new WP7's UX. This series we will explore the phone, it's UX and some early experiments I have done on the phone. In this video I go over some simple Silverlight apps I have built for wp7. Special thanks to Influxis for the equipment used to film …
keywords animation, apps, blogs, c#, flash, microsoft, mobile, silverlight, special thanks, transitions, ui, user experience, ux, wp7, xna

OSMF support for HTML5 and video filters last year

The OSMF team has done a fantastic job. The Strobe Media Playback can detect the client's OS with a JQuery class , load and give controls and views to both, Flash or HTML5 player There is also Adobe® Flash® Media Playback which is a free standard media player for the Adobe Flash Platform. You …
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HTML5 Recipes: Storage 101 last year

In this recipe, we shall take a look at a key feature of HTML5 that is key to making powerful web applications. The area we shall be discussing is storage i.e. how your web applications can store application specific data and retain that data even across browser instances. Quite often, the …
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Create a Circular Sound Analyzer last year

Traditional equalizers are arranged in columns known as bands. Each column has a height representing a sound’s amplitude at specific frequency. It is these amplitudes that give the traditional equalizer its distinct look. However, traditional is boring. Who says equalizers need to be …
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