Author Archives: Jonathan

Augmented Reality using Appcelerator Titanium Starter

Posted on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 by Jonathan

I just purchased this book by Trevor Ward, actually bought the bundle – eBook AND paper copy ($17.99 for both), because sometimes you just want to dog ear a page, read it on a plane during take off, or on … Continue reading →

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Jadu and shared content

Posted on Monday, October 22, 2012 by Jonathan

Skip this and just watch the video Jadu is an amazing CMS and delivers a host of functions out of the box.  Messiah College has adopted this CMS for our site and we launched a couple months ago.  As we continue to … Continue reading →

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Autom8 your connections

Posted on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 by Jonathan

UPDATE : 10/10/2012 8:00am : Apparently I have no idea what I’m doing :-/  I built the tutorial as I was building the scripts. These did not actually work at the end of the day or the next morning.  Working on determining … Continue reading →

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Inspiration found

Posted on Monday, October 8, 2012 by Jonathan

We all need it.  Sometimes we have it.  Sometimes we loose it.  Sometimes we find it in the oddest places.  I’m talking about that odd little feeling that can make the day fly by or drag on … inspiration. I’m … Continue reading →

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Titanium Resources

Posted on Monday, September 3, 2012 by Jonathan

Over the last 6 months, I’ve gotten into Titanium Mobile heavily.  I recently completed work on a  conference app for a client using Titanium and really love working with it. This was the 3rd app I’ve written (iMessiah / PABUG ), but first … Continue reading →

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New Mobile App built

Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 by Jonathan

I’ve been working hard the last few months learning Titanium from Appcelerator.  Its a pretty amazing mobile sdk allowing you to build and deploy mobile apps using JavaScript as the core language.  When you run the app, it compiles to … Continue reading →

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Failure To Launch

Posted on Monday, July 2, 2012 by Jonathan

I’ve recently completed a web app for an event registration on campus, and it is now being tested by the client. I sent an email to the client letting them know its ready for them to test it and to … Continue reading →

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How Chrome saved my bacon

Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 by Jonathan

I have a MacBook Pro and I have a ‘computer-all-my-life’ background and know the importance of backups and keeping them secure.  The institution I work at is still predominately windows – and therefore has no backup solution for mac computers.  I’ve been hounding them for … Continue reading →

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How web programmers should be more like lawyers

Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 by Jonathan

I got to thinking the other day how I was similar to a lawyer, but really should leverage more lawyer-ish practices.  How did this pop into my mind?  Quickbooks.  The software I love to hate.  At this point in my … Continue reading →

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Forcing SSL with PHP

Posted on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 by Jonathan

Occasionally you have a registration form, login page or other php item that should be secured.  Its easy to link to something securely, however, some people play with urls ( I know, gasp ), search engines might get to the … Continue reading →

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