By Eric Layne on May 15th, 2012 // No Comments
Following up on my recent post about mobile application development, I thought I would share my experience using the jQuery Mobile framework. The jQuery Mobile framework is a set of user interface components (buttons, lists, toggles, etc.) that work well on the smaller displays of mobile devices. Where a standard HTML checkbox control might be too small to effectively use on a small screen, the jQuery Mobile replacement is more “finger friendly.” In addition to the usability aspects, the jQu...
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By David Rathert on May 7th, 2012 // No Comments
In response to the growing interest in mobile application development expressed by our clients, we are pleased to announce our upcoming webinar scheduled for Wednesday, May 9 at 11:00 a.m. EST:
Ideas to Mobile Enable your Applications
Gaining mobile access to corporate applications, intranets and websites for business intelligence data, collaboration, workflow and critical business functions allows companies to "break the chains" tying employees to their office space, increasing access and...
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By Eric Layne on May 1st, 2012 // No Comments
I recently had the opportunity to build my first mobile application. It is a simple data collection application based on a form. It’s the kind of app that has been written thousands of times to support myriad business processes. The cool new wrinkle is that by putting it on a phone, the support staff in the field now has the ability to feed data directly into the back end system, instead of phoning a call center and dictating the details to an operator who fills out the form while seate...
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By Eka Renardi on October 6th, 2011 // 1 Comment
This is the second part of the series. The first part about creating the node.js web service layer can be found here.
The goal of these two blogs is to create a Flickr image browser app. It is a single page app, and it also performs infinite scrolling of images. It is done in backbone.js for the client layer, and with node.js as the web service layer.
You can view the demo and source from the links here.
Backbone.js Client
The client in this demo app, consists of a single...
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By Eka Renardi on October 5th, 2011 // 5 Comments
This blog is the first of a two part series.
The second part can be found here.
I am going to write a Flickr image browser app. It is a single page app, and it also performs infinite scrolling of images. It is done in backbone.js for the client layer, and with node.js as the web service layer.
In this blog, I am going to concentrate on writing the node.js web service layer.
Node.js Web Service
This is a simple REST-based web service. All it does is query api.flickr.c...
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