I recently went through some involved discussions with a client who has traditionally not used open-source software when a library package licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) seemed to be the best choice for our needs. I kept a number of notes...
A few weeks ago I got a germ of an idea in my head for a personal web-application that required recording and playing video, something with which I have had very little experience. I have seen how effortless is it to play video with HTML5 so I thought this would be...
In my last blog post I had just discovered the Meteor JavaScript-based web application platform. I have had a little more time to play with it and I am still having a lot of fun with it. On a personal project I was working on, I needed to add user accounts. The...
I’ve just discovered Meteor and I’m currently in the honeymoon phase of this relationship. I realize that it’s still early in development but it’s one of the first truly inspiring full-stack web development platforms I’ve seen in a long time. Built on node.js, it...
jQuery Mobile is a web application framework designed primarily for making sites interact well on smartphones and tablets. However, many of the features are useful for interaction across all devices. This series is focusing on the page transition effects included with...