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Mobile Application Development Security

By Eka Renardi on August 28th, 2012 // No Comments

All Systems Green for "Go"

Mobile devices are everywhere. The adoption rate is staggering, and we are addicted to our smartphones. And with increasing mobile commerce, mobile devices are no longer just for communication. They also serve as your wallet and personal vault - one that you carry around with you all the time. Given the highly personalized nature of mobile device use, security for users has become a critical issue. The good news is that today's mobile devices and mobile operating systems (OS) are built wit...

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Top 5 Design Considerations for Mobile Application Development Projects

By Eka Renardi on August 2nd, 2012 // 2 Comments

take your apps with you!

This is the second post in a series that is focusing on the top five design considerations you need to keep in mind for your projects. This post focuses on mobile applications specifically. Future posts will highlight enterprise search, business intelligence, and custom development.   1. Content You want to concentrate on providing enough content for the user.  In your design creation, ensure your design highlights content and is the primary focus of your application.   2. Fu...

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Flickr + Backbone.js + Node.js

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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Creating a Node.js Web Service

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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Debugging Node.js

By Eka Renardi on September 6th, 2011 // No Comments

I have been coding with Node.js lately.   I promise that there will be a demo on node.js coming up very soon in this blog.In the mean time, there are several ways to debug a node.js app that I have found so far.The first is to use the console, as outlined in the node.js docs http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.4.11/api/debugger.html.Second is to use Eclipse debugger plugin for V8, as posted in this link, https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Using-Eclipse-as-Node-Applications-Debugger.Th...

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