The Polymer Framework PRO
The polymer framework allows us to develop the web application client side by putting together components that were already developed or custom ones we developed by ourselves. Developed by Google, the framework is currently in its very early stage and a port for Dart was already developed. The following video clip shows how simple it […]
The jQueryMobile Touch Events PRO
The jQueryMobile library enables us to hook up with various types of events. The touch events is one of them. The following code sample shows how to do it in order to handle the taphold event. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>My Cycling</title> <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.3.1/jquery.mobile-1.3.1.min.css” /> <script src=”http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js”></script> <script src=”http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.3.1/jquery.mobile-1.3.1.min.js”> </script> </head> <body> <div data-role=”page” […]
The jQueryMobile Grid Layout PRO
Using the jQueryMobile we can split our screen into columns. We just need to choose in advance the number of columns we want and use the relevant CSS class. Using the ‘ui-grid-a’ CSS class we shall get two columns, using the ‘ui-grid-b’ CSS class we shall get three columns and so on. In order to […]
Creating Custom Icons in jQueryMobile PRO
Using jQueryMobile we can create our own custom icons. We just need to create a PNG-8 transparent file in the 18×18 pixels size and define a new CSS class that refers it. The following video clip explains how to do it. The following is the code sample explained in this video clip. You can find […]
Robotium Jump Start PRO
The Robotium framework provides us with testing automation for the android platform. It supports testings both for native and for hybrid applications. Using the Robotium framework we can easily write our own automatic black-box test cases. The following is the code of the activity I test in the video clip. package com.lifemichael.samplecalc; import android.os.Bundle; import […]
PouchDB Jump Start PRO
PouchDB is a small JavaScript library that provides us with the functionality of a document oriented database. We can use it both on the server and on the client. The following is the code that I was using in this video clip. Make sure you update the link to the PouchDB JavaScript file before you […]
The yepnope.js JavaScript Library PRO
The yepnope.js is a JavaScript library that allows us an asynchronous conditional resource loading in according with conditions been tested on the client side. The following is the code that I was using in this video clip. Make sure you update the link to the JavaScript files before you run it. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> […]
TaffyDB Jump Start PRO
TaffyDB is a small JavaScript library that provides us with the functionality of a document oriented database. We can use it both on the server and on the client. The following is the code that I was using in this video clip. Make sure you update the link to the TaffyDB JavaScript file before you […]
Lightbox Jump Start PRO
Lightbox is a small JavaScript library that allows us to overlay series of images on top of our web page. Lightbox was developed by Lokesh Dhakar, it uses jQuery and modernizr and is available for free. The following video overviews this library using the examples we can find in its official website at http://lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2. The following […]
Twitter Bootstrap Beautiful Websites INFO
The Twitter Bootstrap framework allows you to develop the client side probably faster than any other framework. You can find my free detailed course for using this framework in my free courses website at abelski.lifemichael.com. You can find below a collection of eight screenshots for some of the most beautiful and popular websites that were […]