Am I the only one who likes Google’s new privacy policy? 3 weeks ago
Is Google's new, shorter, easier to understand policy that details, in a lot less words, what they've been doing already really that big of a deal?
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All that time wasted learning the .NET framework 3 weeks ago
It hit me tonight that all that time I spent learning the .NET framework starting way back in 2002 was mostly wasted. As much as I love the C# language and have come to appreciate F# (can’t say the same for WPF & WCF), it just hit me tonight that with Windows 8 and the [...]
Adobe acquires Nitobi: Look out Appcelerator 4 months ago
I watched part of the Adobe MAX presentation yesterday in which Adobe said that they are acquiring Nitobi, the company behind PhoneGap. PhoneGap is essentially a competitor to Titanium. Not a complete competitor, but read on. This development is likely the harbinger of changing the game entirely. …
Appcelerator Titanium Desktop: Dragging a chromeless window 4 months ago
This is somewhat obscure as most people using Titanium are using it for mobile apps, but I’ve seen just enough questions out there about this, that I thought I’d share the code that we came up with to allow users to drag a Titanium Desktop window when the background has been set to …
keywords appcelerator, background, javascript, mobile apps, people, titanium, transparent, window
Pittsburgh JavaScript Developers – Three New Events … 4 months ago
In the next month, Pittsburgh JavaScript Developers will be hosting three new events covering some of the hottest topics in JavaScript development.
keywords adobe, air, android, appcelerator, blackberry, community, ios, javascript, javascript developers, linux, osx, titanium, windows
Sencha ExtJS 4: Make any component fire a click event 5 months ago
For some reason, Sencha decided to NOT make every single component in their architecture raise a click event. I don’t comprehend this, but I’m sure they had good reasons – possibly performance, possibly scalability. Whatever the reason, if you want to make anything clickable, …
Social Media Adoption 5 months ago
I found it… what’s the right word… puzzling when I worked at DaVita how I was approached on several occasions to remove, or alter information I had put on my blog about DaVita. It was nothing that exposed trade secrets, competitive advantages, or strategic initiatives. One time, …
Pittsburgh JavaScript Developers: When jQuery Attacks! 5 months ago
By popular demand, the next meeting for Pittsburgh JavaScript Developers will be about jQuery. When jQuery Attacks!
Node.js – Realtime Beer Drinking Competition In Under 40 … 5 months ago
I can’t wait until the Windows port of Node.js is stable. I put together this great, simple application to show off at one of my Pittsburgh JavaScript Developers meetings, but it requires anyone who brought a laptop to connect to the building’s guest wireless network. Well, when I …
Sencha ExtJS 4: Capturing Window Header Close Button Click 6 months ago
A quick entry mostly for my personal, future reference on how to override Ext.panel.Panel to capture when a user clicks on the close button in the window header.
keywords close window, extjs, javascript, sencha
Steve Brownlee
A family fan, first and foremost, reborn as a JavaScript evangelist. Working on projects for mobile and cloud-based products and services. http://www.fusioncube.net/
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