George set out to be a zoologist and now he is a fifteen year veteran with broad experience in software development and architecture. Go figure. He has worked in many domains, including Web applications, mobile platforms, content management, internet-connected desktop applications, multimedia, video, networking and systems architecture. George unintentionally but happily developed a strong understanding of the technology needs of publishing companies during his time at McGraw-Hill and Thomson and consulting with Elsevier and Jones & Bartlett. George is proud of the fact that systems he designed and developed ten years ago are still going strong. When not writing software, George enjoys hardware hacking, photography, birding and attempting to keep up with his four year old daughter.
The HTML5 standard introduces many new capabilities including built-in support for audio and video playback, drawing with the canvas element, and support for offline web applications. HTML5 also includes new semantic elements to help create more meaningful markup and removes many presentational elements. But HTML5 has come to [...]
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If you haven’t seen it, check out Adobe Shadow. It’s a desktop-to-device mirroring tool with a twist (or two). You run the Shadow helper application on your system, install an extension in Chrome, and an app on your device (iOS or Android). Once you pair your browser with [...]
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Chris Heilmann, in his post There is No Simple Solution for Local Storage, gives a really great overview of why localStorage isn’t quite as nice as it seems. And the comments are worth reading. For those of you who may not know, this subject isn’t just generally interesting, [...]
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When Apple released iOS 5 last year, one of the improvements included in Mobile Safari was the inclusion of support for scrolling of block elements with the CSS overflow:auto or overflow:scroll declarations. In addition, support for fancy and fast bounce-scroll behavior is provided with the inclusion of [...]
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Top Trends for 2012: APIs, Mobile, Fragmentation, Consumerization, P2P from Dan Barron and George White.
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HTML5 is an umbrella definition for a loose collection of evolving standards: HTML5, SVG, CSS3 and Canvas/OpenGL. And although the definition is rather broad “HTML5″ is useful when describing this user interface (UI) for the next generation of the web, which is turning up in all sorts of devices including desktop web browsers, [...]
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If you are an active Ruby developer you probably know about and use RVM. For the past few years, many of us have turned to RVM to manage the various Ruby installations on our systems and the gemset feature to handle the gaggle of gems for various projects. [...]
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Dan Barron and George White discuss developing graphic applications in a very small footprint.
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A few months ago, Apple set publishers and content provides on edge when they announced the terms for in-app subscriptions. The primary source of the complaint was a restriction that required publishers to offer subscriptions at the same price – or better – within an iOS app as [...]
Read MoreAdobe is one persistent squirrel, trying hard to break the iOS nut. Adobe released the latest version of the AIR SDK recently, and one of the key features is an update to their support for iOS devices. Development on iOS support for AIR slowed to a crawl (stopped [...]
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