My friend and colleague Mike Peltzer found this on the NextSpace free counter this morning. Back when I was a lad at 3Com this was my bible for about 6 months. Known as the Xerox "Gray Bo...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2012/07/xerox-system-integration-standard.html
The iUI source code has been mirrored on GitHub for a few months now. Although both GitHub and Google Code support Git, it has become more clear to me that GitHub provides a superior user inte...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2012/07/iui-source-on-github.html
As a user I've long been annoyed by the current Facebook iOS App (especially on my original-model iPad.) As a developer I've also been disappointed by what a poor example of an HTML-based mobil...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2012/05/how-not-to-do-html-5-webview-mobile-app.html
Twitter's Bootstrap CSS framework has been wildly successful. I am using it on some (behind-the-firewall, unfortunately) consulting projects and am very happy with it. Like anything else suc...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2012/03/bootstrap-revolution.html
The Grails Ajax Proxy Plugin is now on GitHub. Over 2 years ago I asked on the grails-user list if there was a Proxy Plugin available for Grails that was suitable for Ajax apps to work aroun...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2012/01/grails-ajax-proxy-plugin.html
iPadDevCamp is this weekend. (It is produced by the wonderful iPhoneDevCamp team.) It is at eBay in San Jose, CA but there are some satellite locations as well. I went to iPhoneDevCamp...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2010/04/iui-and-mobile-html5-at-ipaddevcamp.html
TXJS is a full-day conference in Austin, Texas, featuring some of the best minds in JavaScript. They just added more spots, so I signed up. I'm looking forward to visiting Austin again.
http://code.msgilligan.com/2010/04/txjs-javascript-conference-in-austin.html
I'm in the process of adding some persistence to a hybrid iPhone webapp. It looks like I'll be using the HTML5 Web Storage capability. I googled around and didn't find any comparisons of the alt...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2009/11/storing-persistent-data-in-hybrid.html
Since Google Code does not provide general-purpose web hosting to projects, iUI has long used the SVN repository as an HTTP server to server the sample webapps. For example the URL http://iui.goo...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2009/11/issues-in-serving-iui-sample-apps-using.html
I learned XSLT using Jeni Tennison's Beginning XSLT as a tutorial and Michael Kay's XSLT book as a reference. Tennison has a newer book entitled Beginning XSLT 2.0 . I'd take a look at her new...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2009/11/xslt-book-recommendations.html
I've pushed a new development build of the iUI sample and test apps to Google App Engine (iui-js.appspot.com ) Among other changes in this build, the Music Sample web application now support...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2009/09/iui-sample-webapp-using-html-5-offline.html
A friend e-mailed me this evening asking about what the current best practices are for mobile web access. My immediate, flip response is "Make it look good on mobile WebKit and if the others c...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2009/09/mobile-best-practices-in-iphone-era.html
Since Google Code project hosting doesn't provide web hosting other than wiki pages, iUI has been using SVN to host the sample applications, like the music sample . The problem is that neither...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2009/09/iui-on-google-app-engine-using-gaelyk.html
The forthcoming release of iUI (version 0.40 ) is going to be the first release of iUI that add significant architectural changes. iUI today is not that different from the original release of ...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2009/09/iui-design-philosophy.html
I've wanted to create a blog that focuses specifically on software development, with a focus on JavaScript development for some time now. Since Apple's introduction of the iPhone and initial an...
http://code.msgilligan.com/2009/09/goal-i-wanna-be-javascript-ninja.html
I've wanted to start a blog about some of the JavaScript, iPhone, and AJAX work I've been doing