When Adobe announced this week that it is no longer trying to make Flash viable on mobile platforms, there was a good amount of developer talk on the ramifications. In particular, some on Hacker News lamented that they could no longer use Adobe's well developed Flash dev tools, and that currently both the...
Google went ahead and released their new proposed language for the web, Dart. It's a well-meaning gesture to upgrade the state of client-side web dev, but has had a lukewarm reception. Not surprising, when it looks like Java, and the current crop of web devs are used to the free-flowing forms of Ruby,...
Almost lost amidst the announcements yesterday of Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet is their new browser, Silk. Though some blogs picked up the story after all the hardware hype and media attention died down, most chose to focus on its privacy implications instead of the technology[1]. Out of all the analyses I...
Despite my reservations about the inefficiencies of books on technology, I've been reading Javascript Web Applications to catch up on the past 2+ years of JS development and understand the emergent client-side patterns. I admit that I haven't kept up-to-date on the likes of browser frameworks the likes of Sproutcore and...
Whew. A few weeks ago, we released our new Square and Card Case apps. Alongside the new apps, the front-end web development team spent a long two, three weeks to launch a new site worthy of our revamped product line. Under the tutelage of our front-end tech lead, we designed, redesigned, coded and refactored the...
I'm conflicted. As a front-end web developer, I should be excited about the advancements in HTML5: the new HTML tags that correct all the hacks and self-replicating divs; the correctly cross-browser rendered styles which have finally caught up to modern web design; and the new Javascript API's that make the browser...
