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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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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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As I have immersed myself into modern web and mobile architectures I have come to one conclusion, multipage web sites are dead men walking. Constant request, retrieve, react is not a competitive application design going forward. The combination of high
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3-4 years ago I started my change from being an ASP.NET Webforms developer to being an ASP.NET AJAX application developer. This meant finally breaking down and learning how to create applications using JavaScript, a task I was not happy about. The first
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Yesterday Microsoft finally revealed the Windows 8 User Interface . It’s Metro UI based with applications built using Web Technologies, that’s HTML5 & AJAX. Its being met with some criticism and skepticism and then there are folks like me who is personally
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Lately I have been spending a lot of time learning about browser touch support. First I read through the Touch API draft so I would be familiar with the touch events browsers are now supporting. My first instinct was to see if binding touch event handlers
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Lately I have been remembering my first project after grad school creating plant floor ssystems that utilized both touch and voice recognition. The monitors we used were in the $2000 each range, but supported touch. The voice recognition was another whole
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Today I want to show you how to build a Windows Phone 7 Application Bar for your mobile web sites. If you have not done any native Windows Phone 7 developer one of the standard features is the ability to build a toolbar containing up to 4 icons and a
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Today I am gong to complete the checkout process for the mobile version of the MVC Music Store. This process will again feature some layout decisions, but give me an opportunity to cover mobile specific features related to input forms. Part 1 Creating
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Today I am going to review how I implement the genre and album details mobile web pages. Both pages present layout decisions opportunities needed to maximize the mobile experience. I am also going to utilize touch for a nice effect and plugin. Part 1
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Yesterday I started a new series to build a mobile web version of the MVC Music Store reference application. In part 2 of my series of making a mobile version of the MVC Music store I am going to create the core mobile layout. This requires adding a new
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The other day I was talking some fellow developers about web architecture techniques. I brought up the use of jQuery templates instead of another proposed technique. A case was made the template plugin was not good for progressive enhancement. The objection
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Earlier this week Mix released the list of over 200 sessions in the Mix Open Call competition. I have three sessions up for vote and I hope you will help me get the nod with a chance to present. Mix is at the Mandalay Bay in Vegas April 12-14 and is my
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I think it has been a few years since I publically made some predictions on what I think will transpire as it relates to my world. So much has been passing before my eyes the past few years and I honestly felt very overloaded with what would stick and
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I am very excited about the next couple of weeks because I will have a great opportunity to meet some folks and talk about some things I really love. Starting tomorrow night I will be speaking at the Deerfield Beach FL (my operating base for the past
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