Update on mobile web frameworks

Recently saw 2 developments on web mobile frameworks that really got my attention.

jQuery Mobile

First, jQuery mobile just entered Beta3. Lots of bugfixes but also one cool thing that has been baking for a while, real fixed footers and headers are available in the framework. Before that, jQuery fixed stuff was just a gimmick with the fixed bars disappearing when scrolling, now you got the real deal, well sort of. It’s unfortunately only available for ios5, meaning not a big lot of people will see it.

Android does not really support fixed positioning yet, it however supports overflow:scrolltouch. But it seems the jQ teams decided to only implement position:fixed for everybody. There is a nice video of the feature here.

Sencha Touch

Sencha kind of went off…

Text editors again

I found my new house, really. I have been using e-text-editor on windows and Textmate on OSX for nearly 3 years and never really saw any contender to them. I tried aptana 3, too slow, no textmate bundle, buggy jquery snippets, in the end I still went back. My 2 favorites both support tm bundles, there fast, E had split view and some nice features like command lines via cygwin.. But where is my textmate 2? Nobody knows, I heard the author went to work on the Espresso editor, it did not impress me, but fortunately now Sublime 2 is here to take the place of Textmate 2.

Sublime text 2, the new holy grail of editing

Okay, I know VIM is powerful (hello sys admins )…

Introducing BackboneFU.com, the resources for Backbone.js.. maybe

Well, well, sometimes I feel that I need to start a small project just for the fun of it, this time I created backboneFU. I recently started playing with this framework and while there is a lot of resources about backbone, I feel that it’s missing a community website like railcasts for Rails.

This is why I started BackboneFU, in my wildest dreams it would become the resource for Backbone. Anyone who wants to write about backbone will be accepted on the website, so if you want to write something, or already wrote something on your blog and donate the article also on BakcbonFU, you are welcome to do so. There is a nice bio for authors on each articles.

I also added one article recently, Front-end…

Authoring a css book and what is next

I neglected quite a bit my blog for some times now .. After 3 years of doing this I feel like I have less and less to say about web development. Well not that it happens to every blogs of course . I still have some stuff for you guys, but I feel my time doing one article a week is gone.

Confoo conference

This year I am trying to do a talk at the Confoo conference, basically it’s an introduction course at code organization with jQuery, called jQuery Spaghetti. It’s probably not for most of you guys and I know it has been done in other js conferences, but I feel like Confoo will have quite a bit of ‘hobby’ jQuery devs since it’s really a…

Going to war, web developer style

There is bad customer services everywhere, but nothing quite compares to The Brick for me. Here in Quebec we get raped by Telecom companies on cellphone plans and internet, we pay much more for less, and yet, today I am really more pissed off at The Brick.

I am going to spare you the details of my adventure with them, you can find all the details here. Let’s just say that I bought some furniture and I am really not happy with it.

War, guerrilla style!

I was so pissed off about my discussion with their customer support that I decided to create a website to tell everyone about how shitty The Brick is, and I did it in little more than 4 hours. First thing first, I…

A front-end developer journey into symfony..

I love doing HTML/CSS/Javacscript, but what happens when you want to create a project that Wordpress can’t handle? Beside finding someone who can do it I mean.. Well you have to learn new stuff and this is how I immersed myself in more complex back-end work.

Making a framework choice

Where do I start? like anyone I guess, I check for the best framework to learn. Obviously I am not going to create my own MVC framework, some of the best php guys are already doing that (And also I suck at doing php). And I am not going to use a CMS, not enough barebone to do an app, less extensible and also more security problems (plus I hate Joomla and Drupal). So I browse the web, django,…

Form validation engine 2.0 is live

As said previously a rewrite of the validation engine has been in the work for sometimes and today it is finally live, the API changed a lot, might be a good idea to have a look at the new documentation if you are upgrading.

I will be updating the documentation today, but the most up to date doc will always be the readme on github. The legacy 1.7 documentation and download can be found under package when you hit download on github

Time to stop squeezing ketchup (inside joke) and hail to the beast.

Form validation engine 2.0 will be live soon

I will be updating the validation engine to version 2.0 this week, you can have a preview of the beast here. This version is a complete rewrite of the actual code, and mostly all api’s had changes, so if your upgrading, you better have a good look at the documentation (see readme).

The rewrite was done by Olivier Refalo, I wanted to do a rewrite for some times but a lack of time and passion about this stopped me. The script was near 3 years old and while I was happy with it, to stay in a “modern” javascript world it needed significant changes.

The core of the library stayed the same, but what is wrapping is a lot better, Olivier also did a nice rewrite of…

The jQuery Boston conference or how to write jQuery professionally.

I wanted to round up a bit my thoughts about this year Boston jQuery conference. If you had a look at the talks descriptions you certainly saw that there were a lot of talks about code organization, unit testing, templating and etc. It seems this year has really been the year where experienced jQuery developers wanted to evolve outside the DOM that jQuery is so good at abstracting.

It certainly feels weird, when you think about it, that this year conference was all about adding complexity to your code when the most probable reason why jQuery as so much market share is because of its simplicity.

In the keynote, John Resig said that jQuery constantly gaining share momentum and was something like on 30% of overall websites,…

Validation Engine 1.7.1 compatibility release and why

I just released a compatibility release for jQuery 1.4.3.

Unfortunately jQuery 1.4.3 has a bug when using live with attribute not equal selector in Firefox, and this is exactly what I use in my validation engine.

I also moved my code to github, why? Because Github is hot.

http://github.com/posabsolute/jQuery-Validation-Engine