Today GitHub announced Gaug.es for Android, but what you might have missed in that post was that they open sourced the code for it (the Android app) as well. While Gaug.es remains a paid service, the Android app is free and is also open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Gaug.es for Android is built [...]
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Customizable, localized add-to-home-screen script for iOS right
Supporting two dozen languages and easily customizable with CSS, add-to-home-screen from Cubiq makes it easy to let users add your site to the iOS home screen.
iOS-boilerplate: A base boilerplate template for iOS right
iOS Boilerplate is a base template for iOS apps inspired by HTML5 boilerplate. iOS Boilerplate is tested on iPhone / iPod Touch devices with iOS 4.0 or greater. In a future it might support universal applications (iPhone + iPad) As of this posting, iOS Boilerplate is just an XCode project and is planned to be [...]
Episode 0.6.4 – Pow, Rails 3.1 Asset Pipeline, Cinco, CoffeeScript, and more with Sam Stephenson
Adam and Wynn caught up with Sam Stephenson from 37Signals to talk about his his many open source projects and developing Basecamp Mobile. Items mentioned in the show: Nathan Smith, friend of the show, creator of 960.gs, Adapt, Formalize, and featured in Episode 0.3.2 Sam Stephenson, programmer at 37signals, creator of massive amounts of open [...]
Leaflet: JavaScript library for mobile and web open mapping right
While Google has done much to advance the art and science of maps on the web and mobile devices, there is still room for innovation on a number of fronts. OpenStreetMap, for instance brings the power of social curation (read: wiki) to maps. Leaflet from CloudMade aims to create an elegant, open JavaScript API for [...]
scrollability: Native scrolling for the mobile web right
Perhaps even more than advanced features like GPS, camera access, contacts, and App stores, the lack of viewport-aware position:fixed is what drives many apps to be developed as a native experience. Joe Hewitt who brought us Firebug and the Facebook iPhone app has released Scrollability, a single script with no external dependencies that allows developers [...]
Titanium Modules: Starter pack for extending Appcelerator Titanium right
If you caught Episode 0.0.8 with Marshall Culpepper, then you already know that Appcelerator Titanium Mobile is a great way for JavaScript developers to write native mobile applications for iOS and Android without needing to learn Objective-C or Java. However, if you do speak Objective-C or Java you might not know you can extend Titanium [...]
jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 released right
Hot on the heels of the jQuery 1.5 release, jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 is out. A massive update of nearly 500 commits and over 150 bug fixes, Alpha 3 sports a totally refactored Ajax navigation that in our initial tests is much zippier (at least on the iPhone 4). Check out the official announcement and [...]
Episode 0.3.9 – Scripty2, Zepto.js, Vapor.js, and more with Thomas Fuchs
Wynn caught up with Thomas Fuchs to talk about script.aculo.us, Scripty2, Zepto.js and the future of Prototype. Items mentioned in the show: The Magic Roundabout is crazy Wynn got his UK badge on Gowalla script.aculo.us JavaScript effects framework built on top of Prototype Prototype – JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web [...]
Deutsche Telekom releases Unify, metaframework for mobile built on HTML5, JavaScript, and Sass right
At JSConf.eu 2010, Deutsche Telekom took the wraps off of their Unify Project which aims to provide a unified API for building cross-platform mobile and desktop applications. Unify looks to be a metaframework of sorts, wrapping other popular frameworks: qooxdoo is a comprehensive and innovative framework for creating rich internet applications (RIAs) using object-oriented JavaScript [...]
jsconsole: JavaScript console now on the iPhone, iPad right
JSConsole from Remy Sharp is a great way to play with JavaScript in the browser, especially during live coding sessions. Just like Firebug or the WebKit JavaScript consoles, simply type an expression and JSConsole will evaluate it: Math.floor(-3.15) > -4 JSConsole also serves up permalinks for each command: http://jsconsole.com/?Math.floor(-3.15). You can even load external JavaScript [...]
snoopy and sniffer: Detection scripts and bookmarklets for mobile browsers right
One of the great things about being a front-end web developer is that you can always improve your craft. You can inspect the work of others by simply viewing the source for a web page to see what JavaScript libraries were used and how. Mark Perkins offers a couple of projects to make the task [...]
Feeds: Popular WebOS feed reader now open source right
Delicious Morsel, makers of apps like WootOn! and Twee, have open sourced their Feeds app on GitHub. Features Feeds is a full-featured Google Reader client and includes Notifications Offline reading Image zooming Landscape mode Delicious Morsel also released their WebOS version of WootOn!. [Source on GitHub] [Homepage] [Twitter]
zepto.js: Minimalist JavaScript framework for mobile WebKit with jQuery-like chaining right
It may seem strange that the author of Prototype-based script.aculo.us would embark on creating a new jQuery-esque JavaScript library for mobile devices, but that’s exactly what Thomas Fuchs has done with zepto.js. One reason JavaScript frameworks have become popular is because they abstract browser differences and let the developer focus on the work at hand, [...]
html5-boilerplate: Best practices starting point project for HTML5 and mobile web apps right
While HTML5 is expanding in definition to include any whizz-bang feature in the post rounded corner web era, implementing actual HTML5 in your web app can be confusing. It’s a fast moving landscape that touches everything from traditional web apps to mobile. Paul Irish, the Google Chrome dev relations guy who gave us the bulletproof [...]
Episode 0.2.8 – Mobile web development with John Resig
Adam and Wynn caught up with John Resig at TXJS and talked about mobile web development with jQuery and TestSwarm, a continuous integration project from Mozilla Labs. Items mentioned in the show: TestSwarm – Distributed continuous integration testing for JavaScript. Pro JavaScript Techniques John’s JavaScript book Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja John’s upcoming book of [...]
Episode 0.0.8 – Marshall Culpepper from Appcelerator Titanium
Adam and Wynn spoke with Marshall Culpepper from Appcelerator about their open source projects Titanium Desktop and Titanium Mobile. Items mentioned in the show RaphaelJS WebGL CodeStrong Titanium developer docs Fix Me Titanium Desktop on GitHub Titanium Mobile on GitHub