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Back in February I released deeptissuejs , a HTML5, JavaScript touch gesture library. In January I release panoramajs a HTML5, JavaScript library to implement the basic Windows Phone panorama control experience. This month I am excited to release another
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It was 5 maybe 6 years ago when I first started learning jQuery. One of the first things I did was order the jQuery In Action book . If you have read that book you should remember one of the first examples given, zebra striping a table. To me this example
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Guided user input is almost always a good idea when architecting a data entry experience. You want to help the user avoid potential mistakes. With on screen, mobile keyboards you want to reduce the keystrokes required to enter data and at the same time
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Today I am announcing Deeptissue.js , a library to make life easier for developers in the modern world. The inspiration for this library is rooted in my selfish need to have something that would bridge the gap between the WebKit Touch API , Internet Explorer's
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By now you should know that I am constantly on the lookout for cool and bad features implemented by web sites all the time. Last week I was reading some posts on Christian Hielman's blog . As I passed my mouse over the navigation on the right I noticed
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I love a good cheeseburger, always have. My all time favorite was a local grease pit in my hometown of Cleburne Texas that sadly is no more. Nonetheless I have many other options, especially when I go home to Texas, like this weekend! Today I came across
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Over the past few months I started playing Halo 4 thanks to my step son. If you have played Halo or one of the other modern high end game franchises like Call of Duty , Grand Theft Auto , etc you can't help but be a little overwhelmed with the modern
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A few years ago I had to painfully admit I was really lost when it came to what today I call modern web development. I decided I had to change, I had to get myself up to speed and I had to relearn things. Working with ASP.NET WebForms since Beta 1 really
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Consumers are speaking loud and clear. Enterprises are starting to wake up. Even Microsoft got the message and has started to respond, RIM didn't. The way everyday users consume information, interact with each other and accomplish tasks has changed
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It's hard to believe we are entering the last quarter of 2012 already and I have had a very busy year. I have been able to present in at least 7 states and a few online presentations. To finish the year I will visit at least 2 more states and the
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I find myself needing to overlay HTML elements off and on such as a photo caption on top of a photo. The technique to accomplish is very simple and does not require anything we have not has available for years. First create two markup elements. For my
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I love being the mayor, of everywhere I go. I crave check-in points for places I have never been and it puts a smile on my face when I get those extra points for checking in the third time in a week. I do FourSquare, everyday. Even when I don't leave
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This morning I gave my how to do Native experiences using HTML5 talk at the Philly Code Camp . I want to share the links to the live demo site as well as the code and a few other resources. I posted the code I used to a site on my server this morning
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There are not a lot of books on mobile development I have found to be that helpful so far. Recently I purchased the O'Reilly published Mobile Design Pattern Gallery book and want to recommend it. Its not a book deep in technical details, but rather a
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If you know me you know over the past few years I have been a big fan of Metro UI and the tiles. I have been hacking at doing the Metro UI in web applications for a while now, so there are a lot of things I have learned, and some I have not quite mastered
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