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Social So Mastodon is a thing, apparently. If you want to follow me on another network, feel free! I haven’t done much with it yet, but it looks quite nice. PhoneGap Day Hey, hey, PhoneGap Day EU 2017 is just over a month away! Yikes! That means if you haven’t already, you need to get your tickets now! The workshops are already sold out, but there are still tickets for the main event. And if…

PhoneGap / Cordova PhoneGap released their PhoneGap 2017 Roadmap. You’ll definitely want to check it out. Very cool! Don’t forget PhoneGap Day EU 2017, May 18 and 19 in Amsterdam! See more information and get your tickets! I hope to see you there! Web / Hybrid Life Scrolling on the web: A primer is an excellent article proving that scrolling is rarely simple. Side note: please don’t hijack the…

I’ve been working, off and on, on Retroputer, a faux “emulator” for hardware that never existed. The intent is to evoke the feel of older hardware without giving up some conveniences (like 24-bit color and absurdly limited register files). My initial implementation wasn’t optimized at all, but over the last few sessions, I’ve been looking at the various places where optimizations could be…

Cordova / PhoneGap Plugins release — Go get! WebVR, PWAs and more coming to PhoneGap Day EU 2017 via Mobile Web Weekly — PhoneGap Day EU 2017 will be here before you know it, and there’s going to be lots of great presentations and workshops, and you’ll get to meet lots of great people. What are you waiting for? Go get your tickets! Hope to see you there! Simon MacDonald posted slides for…

In case you haven’t heard, PhoneGap Day EU 2017 in Amsterdam will be running May 18 and 19, and there’s going to be lots of great content and workshops. Thanks to the PhoneGap team, I’ll be presenting again this year, and will also be part of a workshop on plugins. I hope to see you all there! Oh, you want a sneak peek? Well, OK then: “Modern JavaScript and PhoneGap” Presentation description…

Important On February 22nd, Srinivas Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani, both engineers at Garmin, were shot in a bar in Kansas. Ian Grillot intervened valiantly and was also shot. Unfortunately Srinivas was killed, but both Alok and Ian are recovering. For more details, see this article. There’s no doubt in my mind that this was a hate crime made all the worse by alcohol and our current political…

So much for blogging regularly, eh? Here, let’s try this again… PhoneGap & Cordova Important if you are using Crosswalk in your projects: Crosswalk 23 to be the last Crosswalk release I wish the developers well and can’t wait to see what they do next. A fond farewell to the Crosswalk project PhoneGap’s commitment to Apache Cordova: Our continued Commitment PhoneGap Day EU 2017 — Last year’s PGDay…

JavaScript 30-day Vanilla JS Coding Challenge — I quite like the idea of this. While libraries and frameworks are exceedingly useful, I think it best to learn JavaScript without them at first so that one better understands the “magic” that happens when using various frameworks. Via Hacker News PhoneGap / Cordova cordova-ios 4.3.1 released — patch release for [email protected]. This one has full…

Just released: Launch Storyboard Image Previewer Utility (v0.2) for next version of #ios platform on #cordova and #phonegap.

The next version of cordova-ios (4.3.0) will support launch storyboards, which means that it will be possible to support the native resolution of the iPad Pro 12.9″ as well as all of the remaining iPad/iPhone form factors. It is possible to provide a single image and have it apply to all devices, but it’s also possible to fine-tune based on device idiom, scale, and size as well. For more…

Hurricane Matthew I love watching weather, so you can bet that I was keeping a close eye on Hurricane Matthew. As much as I love the mechanics of how hurricanes work, I’m also saddened at the loss of life, limb, and property that the hurricane caused. Aside from actually being present in the affected areas and providing help that way, money is probably the next best thing. If you can, would you…

Wow – well, it’s been a while since my last post! Sheesh. I wanted to let you know about some things on the horizon before getting to the links: I am in the process of creating some instructional videos about PhoneGap! Much learning is going on when it comes to screen and audio recording, that’s for sure. More news coming soon. I’ve created a Patreon account should you ever feel the urge to…

Interesting Links #11: iOS 10, vscode, Juno & more. At the end, some thoughts on the recent goings-on in the US (Content/Trigger warning).

iOS iOS 10 beta 2 was released a few days ago, and public beta just started. More info Web Development This just popped up on my feed: JS Web Frameworks Benchmark, Round 3 by Stefen Krause. Interesting stuff there. Computer History So the Apollo 11’s guidance software was put up on GitHub. How cool is that? Development Tools Visual Studio Code 1.3 is out now! It brings tabbed editors, a new…

Cordova / PhoneGap Cordova iOS 4.2.0 was recently released. PhoneGap Build documentation has been moved to http://docs.phonegap.com/phonegap-build/. Update your bookmarks! User Experience / User Interfaces Input Masks: Violating User Expectations is an excellent article on what you should and shouldn’t do with regard to masking input fields on web pages — and it extends into apps as well. Nothing…

Apple WWDC 2016 So last week was Apple WWDC 2016, and although I wasn’t able to attend, they did make a lot of the videos of sessions available online. If you develop for any Apple device, you’ll definitely want to check out their videos and review the documentation for the new releases. Also, Adam Leventhal has some very in-depth posts on Apple’s new file system, APFS. Very definitely worth a…

CPGG #0 (Common PhoneGap Gotchas Series)

So, PhoneGap Day EU in Amsterdam has come and gone, and I must say I’m still coming down off the high of being a presenter. The day was absolutely fantastic, even accounting for my severe jet lag and lack of sleep the night before. My sleep schedule is just now getting back to normal!

I thought it would be cool to do a series based on my presentation. There are several reasons:

Some of us are…

So it’s been awhile since my last links post, but that was because there was a fun & wonderful trip over to Amsterdam for PhoneGap Day EU. And then I got my tooth pulled Wednesday. Yay! (Thankfully it’s actually not hurting too much right now!)

On with the show…

Weekly Aggregators

I keep up-to-date by subscribing to a lot of sites that send out aggregations of links on a weekly basis. If you…

Common PhoneGap Gotchas (PGDay EU 2016, May 19 2016)

As promised, here are the slides from my talk “Common PhoneGap Gotchas” at PhoneGap Day EU 2016 in Amsterdam. If you have any questions or comments, I’m always happy to talk!

I know the presentations themselves are also being recorded. When I have the link, I’ll post it here as well.

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/photoKandy/common-phonegap-gotchas-pgday-eu-2016