November 2011 - Posts
So you want a new phone or are thinking about getting a new phone for someone. Amazon has the deal for you. A few days ago I wrote some hands on reviews about some of the new breed of Windows Phones I got to hold. They are all very strong phones with
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Two years, it's hard to comprehend how fast the time has flown and how much my life has changed. November 2 marked my two year anniversary with Tellago and I thought I would try to express what these past two years have been like today, Thanksgiving.
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Debugging AJAX on a mobile device is tricky at best. There are no Firebug or F12 tools available. This means we do not have a nice way to set break points or step through our code when there is an error. Not to mention how do you even know when there
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Last night I had an opportunity to attend a Windows Phone Inner Circle event where I got to try out many of the newest Windows Phone handsets. I even won a new HTC Titan , which is just a beast. While I was really excited to hold and experience these
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As browsers adopt more and more HTML5 goodness developers need to be cognoscente of new features to create better and better user experiences. As far back as I can remember the INPUT element has been a workhorse that allows the web to collect information
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Recently I have been creating single page web applications utilizing URL fragments . Essentially this is a new twist to an old technique that has been around for a very long time. While not used as much these days I remember around a decade ago
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What seems like one of the least known features in the mobile web space is the ability to create a web app on the iPhone and iPad. If you hit the button in mobile Safari you will have several options. One is “Add To Home Screen”. This gives
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This week there has been news that Silverlight 5 might just be the last version of the technology that never really seemed to get any real traction. This morning I woke to several stories about Adobe killing any further development of it's flash mobile
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Yesterday I talked about how creating traditional <A> driven navigation can be problematic in today’s touch first world . In yesterday’s demonstration I pointed out how using hyperlinks and a traditional menued navigation scheme can
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The way we design application clients has radically changed in the past couple of years with the proliferation of SmartPhone and tablets with touch screens. Touch is the newest common user input methodology. Sadly it seems to be broadly ignored by the
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