Last year, when I worked at Engine Yard, I wrote a blog post on using a Virtual Machine as a local development environment. I built that virtual machine (which is still available on Engine Yard’s S3 account) for students wanting to learn Ruby on Rails without having to set it up. After the blog post, [...]
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Switching Gears
I have given up writing a mobile app for the time being. Not enough time to juggle my new job (Senior Program Manager at VMWare) with family (2 little kids and lovely wife). It has been many months since I have written anything in this here blog. I have never been a very active blogger [...]
Browser Testing Mobile Applications
Warning: This article is targeted at OS X, not Windows. As I begin building my mobile web application I would like to see how it looks on both Android and iPhone. To do this, I need to install both the Android SDK, and Xcode from Apple. Installing the Android SDK to browse mobile websites. Head [...]
Setting up JQuery Mobile and CodeIgniter (on Godaddy)
Playd8.mobi will be written using PHP, CodeIgniter, MySQL, and JQuery Mobile. I am hoping to compile it to iPhone and Android using PhoneGap, which was just acquired by Adobe. The first place I want to start is to create a semi-to-non-functional prototype in JQuery Mobile and CodeIgniter. I downloaded the latest version of CodeIgniter, and uploaded [...]
Getting Started with Playd8.mobi
I decided to begin work on a software application today. I have little time for things like this. Two kids under the age of five. A director-level position at a web startup. The thing is that I love programming. So I am going to do this. The app will help me, and people like me. [...]