Archive for September, 2010

Skip the App Store With an HTML5 Mobile App

So, you want to make an app for an iOS device? Well, you have two choices when creating your app. The first option is a native app written in Object C while the second option would be to build a mobile web app powered by HTML5, CSS3 and whatever javascript framework makes you happy. Here are some reasons why you might want to take another look at an HTML5 web app…

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Liquibase! (A brief primer on database schema migrations in Grails)

The Active Record migration system in Rails is one of the (few!) advantages that Rails can claim over Grails. Hibernate and the GORM are fantastic pieces of software but they – like all things – are not without their limitations. For example, it is hardly advisable to run production level code with your dataSource.dbCreate set [...]

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