HTML5 (or HTML in general) book recommendations?
A reader asked what I'd recommend in terms of a good book for learning HTML5 and after realizing I had no idea, I thought I'd post it here and let my smart readers (yes I'm buttering you up) have a...
View ArticleSelecting a random record from an IndexedDB Object Store
A few days ago I ran across an interesting post on Stack Overflow, Is there any way to retrieve random row from indexeddb? The posted answer used the following process: Open an index. Iterate over...
View ArticleStar Wars Teaser
I'm assuming most people who care have already watched this online, but I'm sharing it anyway. Today the teaser for the next Star Wars film launched and it is incredible. I know a lot of folks hated...
View ArticleDisqus update (and BlogCFC export script)
As folks know, I've been working on transitioning to Disqus over the past week. I ran into multiple problems, and I made multiple mistakes, but today the process completed and I'm ready to share...
View ArticleEarly Access to My Next Book - Apache Cordova in Action
Hey - guess what? I'm working on a book. This time the publisher is Manning, and one of the cool things they do is allow early access to a book. You basically pay for it while it is being developed...
View ArticleStatus of Disqus updates, and a tool for URL migration
Well, I'm disappointed to say the least. I've had good luck with Disqus pretty much everywhere I've used it, but my attempts to migrate my 50K+ comments over have been met with a great amount of...
View ArticleCheck out FormKeep, another option for static sites
Over the past year or so I've been playing around with static site generators. After nearly fifteen years spent building dynamic web applications on the server-side, a simple solution involving a...
View ArticleColdFusion Startup Issue with Hostname
So - this is kind of crazy. Yesterday I fired up ColdFusion 11 to test something and discovered that every request for a CFM returned an error. The error was a Null Pointer Exception so not terribly...
View ArticleBlog Migration Update
Just a quick note. I've mentioned that I'm in the process of migrating the blog to a new platform (Wordpress). As part of that migration, I've went ahead and switched to Disqus. I'm still working on...
View ArticleDetermining installed plugins at runtime for Cordova and PhoneGap applications
Earlier today on Twitter a user asked an interesting question: How can I tell - via JavaScript - if a particular plugin is installed in a Cordova/PhoneGap application. I responded by asking how you...
View ArticleUsing the autodivider feature in jQuery Mobile (take two)
Almost a year ago I blogged about using the autodivider feature in jQuery Mobile. This is a simple feature that enhances list views with dividers. It makes content a bit easier to parse when working...
View ArticleLooking for Suggestions: Best Conferences for Mobile/Web Development
Earlier today my buddy Andy Trice posted a question about conferences: What are the best conferences are for mobile and/or web development? native, hybrid, etc... all OK-need help finding best ones...
View ArticleCordova's copy-from tip
Yesterday I was proof-reading a blog post about an update to the PhoneGap CLI (which you should read - PhoneGap CLI 3.6.3) and I discovered something interesting. For a while now the Cordova CLI has...
View ArticleAny WordPress users familiar with BlogCFC?
A long time ago a reader shared a BlogCFC to WordPress script. I'm assuming it is too far out of date to be useful. Has anyone converted a modern BlogCFC database to WordPress 4.0? I'm assuming I can...
View ArticleColdFusion Example: Using jQuery UI Accordion with a ColdFusion query
A reader pinged me yesterday with a simple problem that I thought would be good to share on the blog. He had a query of events that he wanted to use with jQuery UI's Accordion control. The Accordion...
View ArticleGood post on Cordova, PhoneGap, and versioning
This is from last week but it is still pretty important. Holly Schinsky wrote an excellent article about versioning and Cordova/PhoneGap. Things have gotten slightly more complex in this area and I...
View ArticleRandom code I'm sharing for no good reason
Ok, the title should be your warning. I'm only posting this because it is Sunday night and I'm bored. I'm working on a demo for my jQuery video (did I mention I'm working on a jQuery video?) that...
View ArticleCordova and Asset Downloads
A few weeks ago (before I thought it would be a good idea to fly to China for a few weeks and dramatically increase the size of my family), I blogged about how a Cordova application could handle...
View ArticleList auto-dividers in Ionic
This question came up on StackOverflow recently and I took a stab at answering it. The user had a list of data that included dates. They were looking to see if there was an easy way to add dividers to...
View ArticleCordova Example: Writing to a file
As you know, lately I've been publishing simple Cordova examples that involve the file system. I'm working on a demo that involves background asset downloads (see the blog entry) but I thought I'd...
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