Aging Coder

Last time we dealt with the grandaddy of all HTML5 Mobile Frameworks, now lets look at the 800 lb Gorilla. jQuery Mobile is bar far the most well known and commonly used Mobile Framework (and while I admin I'm going mostly by number of StackOverflow question count, number of books available, number of articles on the web, which may also be influenced by the fact it has been around for a few years, it still hasn't been around as long as jQTouch). It has gone through several iterations -- with each iteration making ...

Continuing on from our overview, an in depth look into JQT. JQT (formerly jqTouch) is the Grandaddy of all of the HTML5 Mobile Frameworks and is almost 5 years old (a lifetime in mobile web frameworks), I guess iUI was around but jqTouch was my introduction to mobile web development. Initially jQuery plugin (remember the time when everything was a jQuery plugin?) it grew into a relatively ...

A year I released my mobile app Recipe Folder using jQuery mobile and PhoneGap. While jQuery mobile did the job, I realized that while easy to get started with, jQuery Mobile is fairly bloated and the upgrade cycle was taking days of work rather than just dropping in the new files. I figured that there had to be a better solution, and I researched the various other HTML5 Mobile platforms when I had to create a mobile application for work. My directives was to find a framework ...

I needed a quick way to count the lines of code in a program, skipping empty lines and ignoring commented lines so I could get an estimate of how many lines of code a Library used (I have a current interest in SLOC and complexity). I searched online to find such a beast and was surprised that the only online Line of Code Counters I could find didn't take comments or whitespace into account. Github does a nice job of this, but not every ...

The article discusses embracing Windows for modern web development with a strong editor, JetBrains tooling, and a Unix-like toolchain. It emphasizes reliable editors, static analysis, and cross-platform compatibility.