This Friday, our little team is getting together for a “Learn Android” Hackathon. As it turns out, we’ve also recently had a spin evaluating HipChat. You can see the synergies developing right? So, given that HipChat has a rockin REST API, I thought I’d put together a little bit of JavaScript that ties up all the loose ends and gives me a nice mile-high display for displaying HipChat messages on the team plasma. And thus [...]

I’ve had a great couple of days at OSDC 2011! Tuesday I was hanging out at the First Ever Australian GR8 Conference, spent Tuesday night with the CJUG boys, then have been presenting today on PhoneGap to the broader OSDC conference. Great times! Interesting this is definitely one of the hardest core developer communities I have hung out with. Hardly any Macbooks/iPhones in sight and Linux laptops and Android phones everywhere! People are really committed [...]

I’m really looking forward to hanging out with the crew at osdc2011 next week in Canberra, and have been busy working on my sample code for my talks. I’ll be giving a talk titled, “Fake Your Way as a Mobile Developer Rockstar with PhoneGap” where I’ll be talking a little about a recent client project I was working on developing for iPhone,iPad,Android (phone + tablet), Blackberry, Playbook and WinPhone7. It was a true “write once, [...]

I’ve been using PhoneGap along with jQuery Mobile to do some protoyping work for a client on a range of mobile devices.  When testing on Android 2.2 (HTC Desire in my case), I noticed a nasty flicker on the CSS swipe transition. Seems others have seen this too. On my device it seems to occur once at the start of the transition, and once at the end. Anyways, after much googling, the stackoverflow magic that fixes it [...]

I’ve been doing some work for a Government client around making their cyber-safety info accessible to Aussie kids. One of the target devices is iPhone (actually Android is even higher priority since Android handsets are becoming far more common with kids, but that’s another bunch of excitement altogether). The issue with iPod/iPhone bookmarking is that the Safari Mobile bookmarking icon is so ambiguous that very few people know what it does! We were after a [...]