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App Icons for iOS, AIR and Android

I’ve been making HTML5 apps with PhoneGap and helping co-workers using Flash CS5 with the iPhone & Android packagers. There are a bunch of icon sizes needed when you make a cross platform mobile app, especially if you want to cover … Continue reading

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Total Validator Desktop Tool

A few months ago I wrote about Total Validator. It is disappointing that attacks have taken a very good tool offline. However, it is comforting that Total Validator is available as a desktop tool. Please support it.

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Manifest Generator for TextMate and Text Wrangler

I whipped up versions of the Coda extension “Manifest Generator” that run in TextMate and TextWrangler. See the previous post on a HTML 5 Manifest Generator for Coda. HTML5 Manifest Generator for TextMate To install the bundle- just download, unzip, … Continue reading

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Coda Plugin- HTML5 Manifest Generator

Offline web content is readily done with an HTML5 Cache Manifest, as well described and demonstrated by Mark Pilgrim. Though the manifest file itself is simple, creating it can require some tedious work. This Coda Plugin attempts to address that. … Continue reading

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PhoneGap Lessons Learned- Windows Edition

The first lesson learned is that there is a lot of stuff to install to get a Windows machine ready to roll with Eclipse‑Android‑PhoneGap development. Second, I learned it is all really finicky regarding version of Ruby, paths, order of … Continue reading

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PhoneGap Lessons Learned- Mac edition

In the last week I’ve learned quite a bit about using PhoneGap-Android with Eclipse on Mac and Windows. Earlier this month I spent alot of time using the iUI library with PhoneGap to make stand-alone iPhone apps from HTML. I … Continue reading

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Quickly Open Directories or Files

Here are a set of “Finder Droplet” utilities that I found very helpful when working with PhoneGap, and lots of other things too. Consider this a follow-up to my previous post on shell commands for Coda and TextMate. Finder Droplets … Continue reading

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Coda and TextMate Tips for Mac OS X Terminal

Here are some tips for easy shell access to open files with TextMate and Coda from the terminal. I found and modified these while I’ve been dinking around with PhoneGap for iPhone (love it) and Android (jury is still out).  … Continue reading

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