By default Aptana 3.x does not support Intellisense for JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, YUI, Sencha, etc. So for instance if you are using jQuery and type the default alias - ’$’ Intellisense will display a prompt that states ‘No proposals’. Luckily enabling Intellisense support for jQuery is very simple in Aptana: Got to https://github.com/aptana/javascript-jquery.ruble/tree/master/support Pick a [...]
Continue Reading →‘Our site is mainly a one page site which makes it very javascript heavy. Up until recently, even though the rest of our stack has great test coverage, our javascript had no automatic test coverage. We recently did a huge redesign of our site and, in doing so, decided to rewrite a lot of the [...]
Continue Reading →“very powerful free testing tools are available for Web designers today. Some are more user-friendly than others, and some have significantly better user interfaces. Don’t expect much (if any) support with these tools. But if you’d rather not spend extra money on testing, some great options are here as well.” Review Of Cross-Browser Testing Tools [...]
Continue Reading →“More than ever, designers are being asked to create experiences for a variety of mobile devices. As tablet adoption increases and we move into the post-PC world, companies will compete for users’ attention with the quality of their experience” Designing For Android Tablets
Continue Reading →“This article describes the features and design approaches that AIR supports to enable mobile application development. The features and approaches described will help you develop applications that can run on Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and iOS devices, and on both smartphones and tablets.” Considerations for developing Adobe AIR applications for mobile
Continue Reading →‘It does not adhere to the suggestions made by the jQuery documentation regarding Plugins/Authoring and by doing so it provides better performance and memory usage by not creating multiple instances of itself and attaching them to the target DOM elements.’ jQuery Boilerplate
Continue Reading →“In the world of marketing microsites, or any RIA, preloading is like fine dining – it’s all about presentation and timing. The various wine glasses, multiple forks and all those spoons above your plate are all part of the process. It’s not as simple as just grabbing a hotdog on the go.” Serving Elegant Online [...]
Continue Reading →“If you plan to develop a mobile application and run it on smarphones and tablets, you need to adapt the UI (your views) for several reasons: user experience, performance and usability” Adaptive UI: Mobile vs Tablet
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Continue Reading →“If you haven’t looked much at the dev tools in 12 months, you need to give this another look. But if you’re also using it daily, I can guarantee we show some features in here you have overlooked.” A Re-introduction to the Chrome Developer Tools
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