This post was just put up on the blog of one of our architects, Anatoly Polinsky. Anatoly has a playful take on Spock, a Groovy testing framework, and specifically, abotu connecting Spock with Spring and DbUnit. So here we go.. Yesterday night we hacked our way into The Ancient Database where besides the data about ancients themselves, we found incredible stats about many different living species of all the planets ancients traveled to. So what do we do now? Well,…
Here’s how to make it happen, says former CTO Allan Frank By Todd R. Weiss PHILADELPHIA – (Editor’s note: Allan R. Frank, the former CTO of the City of Philadelphia, was scheduled to speak here last Thursday at the 6th annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference (ETE). A sick child at home, however, canceled his plans for the day. Frank was kind enough, though, to talk with me by telephone to describe his vision for technology in Philadelphia –…
By Todd R. Weiss PHILADELPHIA – Yes, the halls here at the 6th annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference (ETE) are filled with software developers, business people and technology visionaries. But if you looked a little deeper, you might have met your next boss – and she could still be in elementary school. In a conference room here this morning, nine girls – ages eight to 15 – met with two visionary women in technology who delivered the keynotes…
Here’s why they do attend – for learning, for new ideas, for meeting peers By Todd R. Weiss PHILADELPHIA – Almost 500 attendees from all over the U.S., and some from as far away as India and Sweden, are here at the 6th annual Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference (ETE). What attracted them to attend this year’s two-day conference? And what have they taken away so far? For Michael P. Redlich, a senior research technician for a U.S.-based petrochemical…
Design expert: Pay attention to the new rules of designing for touchscreens By Todd R. Weiss PHILADELPHIA – As software developers design how the next generations of apps will look and work, they need to transform their ideas about how to best put useful content on the shrinking device screens being used by consumers. That’s because tablet computers, smartphones and other handheld mobile devices dramatically change how consumers can view content on screens that are much smaller than traditional desktop…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
