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Welcome: A Guide to What's in Store for you here at the 6th annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference

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By Todd R. Weiss In the next two days, prepare to be inspired, educated, challenged, informed and entertained by a cast of diverse IT experts who are here to share their insights and experiences on a wide swath of software development topics. I’m technology journalist Todd R. Weiss, and I’m a regular contributor to Computerworld, PC World and TechTarget, writing about enterprise IT and the challenges it brings daily to businesses and their busy IT staffs. I’m here on behalf…

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PhoneGap Tutorial Series – #6 Writing Your Own Plugin

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This is the last of the series Hiedi Utley has written on PhoneGap.  I hope you have found the series helpful.  We hope to have more of this type of blog post in the future to help with developing mobile applications. How to Create Your Own PhoneGap Plugin Today’s topic is about creating your own PhoneGap plugin for iOS development. PhoneGap provides a whole array of built in features to access all sorts of things on a device but what…

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PhoneGap Tutorial Series – #5

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Extending the PhoneGap API – Third-Party Plugins (NativeControls) Continuing on down the path of using third party plugins, today we will look at a little more complex example and use the NativeControls plugin to display a UIActionSheet to allow the user to select whether they want to take a photo using the camera or pick one from the photo library by utilizing the PhoneGap Camera API. If you haven’t read my previous post on Third-Party Plugins (ChildBrowser) you may want…

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Extending the PhoneGap API – Third-Party Plugins (ChildBrowser)

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As we are preparing for Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, I did not want to forget the rest of the series on PhoneGap API that Hiedi Utley has been penning.  Here is part 4. Extending the PhoneGap API – Third-Party Plugins (ChildBrowser) So the last post was all about editing PhoneGap classes to add a little something extra, today it’s about using a third-party plugin that you may have downloaded from somewhere or gotten from someone. The plugins that we…

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Extending the PhoneGap API

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Here is the third installment of Hiedi Utley’s series on PhoneGap.  We hope you are finding this series helpful as you learn more about developing for mobile applications. Extending the PhoneGap API If you’ve had a chance to play with PhoneGap a bit, chances are you have wanted it to do something that it doesn’t already do. Alas, don’t worry! You don’t have to put in a ticket and hope that the PhoneGap developers agree with you and implement it…

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Using the PhoneGap API

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We are a little behind in posting Hiedi Utley’s PhoneGap Tutorial Series.  Or she is a very fast writer. In this post, Hiedi discusses the features of PhoneGap API. Using the PhoneGap API Welcome to the second installment of my PhoneGap Tutorial Series! This post is a continuation of PhoneGap Project Structure and Internals so if you haven’t already, you may want to peruse that post before continuing on. We already know that PhoneGap is an open source framework for…

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What is in my Spring Context?

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When we are learning Spring, there are times we are not sure which beans are in the Spring context. Especially when we use convenient features of Spring 3 such as or . As developers, we want to inspect the classes that are automatically registered providing the opportunity to look at the source code and javadocs to see what each class does. JUnit Tests get Application Context Our JUnit tests have the ability to inject the Application Context. This is one…

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PhoneGap Tutorial Series – #1 Project Structure and Internals

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Heidi Utley, one of the members of our mobile practice, has been working with PhoneGap for one of our clients. She decided to create a series of posts focusing on using PhoneGap for iPhone development. This first one discusses the project structure.  Future posts will review the PhoneGap API, installing a third party plugin, and last building your own PhoneGap plugin. What is PhoneGap? PhoneGap is an open source framework for writing applications using typical web technologies like HTML, CSS,…

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Xcode3 – Debugging iOS Unit Tests

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A recent blog post by Hiedi Utley (no, she is not related to our knee challenged second baseman), Chariot’s newest team addition.  Hiedi has been working in our mobile practice.  She reviews some of the challenges of being a Java developer and moving to an iOS environment. Here is an excerpt from this post: So you have some unit tests (yeah!) and they are failing …. now what? Over the course of my career these past few years, I have…

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Mobile Design Part 3

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The next installment of Kevin Griffin’s blog on Mobile Design. Cognitive Effort. In this installment of my thoughts on mobile design, I thought we would take a look at the concept of ‘cognitive effort’. I think I first heard that term used in reference to design from William Van Hecke (@fetjuel) when he spoke at Voices that Matter in Philly. When a guy from The OmniGroup talks to be about making great apps, I tend to shut up and listen….

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