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Responsive – my.hult.edu

Seems to be one of the big trend recently, my twitter stream is spammed by articles about it…so thanks to Bootstrap and burning all the midnight oils in the world!!! We launched my.hult.edu a responsive design/website/portal for our students.
On a .Net platform (unfortunately), fully integrated with Salesforce and with all the love of jQuery, JavaScript [...]

SQLite Dynamic Data in Titanium

My talk at @LondonTitanium on using SQLite as an API cache.
 
SQLite Dynamic Data in Titanium
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Where are my rounded corners?

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If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.

Let me get this straight to the point from the start and in a really short matter…
You may rewrite the whole API, you may do it so well that is actually 10x more performant of the ugly previous version that you spent months moaning about…
To be honest based on some queries, it may be 100x [...]

Timing

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking and don’t settle.” — [...]

The best idea… #2

It doesn’t happen that I travel for work often but when it does your mind get all the benefits. Well of course it depends from a lots of different variables but in general: Your mind reads things with a different prospective. You’re outside your daily environment, your daily chaos, your daily Q&A [...]

Meetings Are Toxic

There's nothing more toxic to productivity than a meeting. Here's a few reasons why:

They break your work day into small, incoherent pieces that disrupt your natural workflow
They're usually about words and abstract concepts, not real things (like a piece of code or some interface design)
They usually convey an abysmally small amount of information per [...]

The first step is to start

…The truth is that you don’t need learn anything new in order to begin. The most important thing is simply to start.

Start making something. If you want to learn web design, make a website. Want to be an entreprenuer and start a business selling web based products? Make an app. Maybe you don’t have [...]

There’s Nothing Functional about a Functional Spec

Don’t write a functional specifications document

These blueprint docs usually wind up having almost nothing to do with the finished product. Here’s why:

Functional specs are fantasies

They don’t reflect reality. An app is not real until builders are building it, designers are designing it, and people are using it. Functional specs are just words on paper.

Functional specs [...]

Article: On jQuery & Large Applications – rmurphey

On jQuery & Large Applications – rmurphey http://rmurphey.posterous.com/on-jquery-large-applications

On jQuery & Large Applications – rmurphey

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about JavaScript applications. As my skills have evolved, I’ve had the privilege of working on more actual applications, and I’ve gotten further and further from clients who want to add a bit of Ajax or bling [...]