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Web services are taking over the world. I credit Twitter’s epic rise to the availability of a simple but rich API. Why not use the same model for your own sites? Here’s how to create a basic web service that provides an XML or JSON response using some PHP and MySQL.
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Recently I had the pleasure of announcing Sencha Touch, a standards-based mobile app framework which I helped create. As expected, this has raised some questions about jQTouch, a similar library I created last year. As covered before, jQTouch will remain separate, maintained, and free under the MIT license. This post helps distinguish the similarities and differences between the two libraries for the discerning mobile developer. Continue reading “jQTouch VS Sencha Touch: Which is right for you?”
Sencha Touch is the world’s first app framework built specifically to leverage HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript for the highest level of power, flexibility, and optimization. We make specific use of HTML5 to deliver components like audio and video, as well as a localStorage proxy for saving data offline. We have made extensive use of CSS3 in our stylesheets to provide the most robust styling layer possible. Continue reading “Sencha Touch Mobile JavaScript Framework (Free)”
So you want to build a Facebook application and reach literally millions of users. Well luckily, writing an application using the API isn’t too hard to learn (for the basics, anyway). In this tutorial we will write a Facebook app that generates a random quote to display on the user’s profile.
