Mark Newton
3D printing has been with us for some time but until a couple of years ago I resisted the temptation to buy a printer, mainly based on the rather ‘Heath Robinson’ look of most of the printers on offer. Whilst many of these can produce good quality prints it struck me that they required a […]
Ask a group of people which is the best mobile phone and you will get a variety of answers, ask the same question in a pub and the result can become quite heated. Search the blogs and the reviews web sites and the picture doesn’t become any clearer. One thing that most agree on is […]
Any developer out there who has more than a little entrepreneurial spirit in him will be watching closely the rise of mobile phone and web applications with a view to writing ‘the coolest app’ and making some serious money. The most obvious of these are the apps for the Apple iPhone, where development has to […]
The work on my mobile App progresses, final testing has been completed and tweaks to the graphics have been done, everyone involved in the project seems to be happy with it, so now is the time to submit it to the stores for it to be available to users. However as this is going to […]
Browser based emulators will only take you so far in your testing. When writing a mobile App in HTML5 it is usual to use a desktop PC with a development tool like Intel’s XDK which includes ‘Ripple’ , this being a mobile device emulator software so that you can visualise your App. However whilst this […]
My last two articles have mainly covered the development of mobile apps built using HTML5 and JavaScript. By using these technologies it is possible to write one piece of code that will run on iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 platforms as well as in a desktop browser. This ‘write once run anywhere’ has for […]
In my last article I investigated the Intel XDK mobile phone development environment. Using this free set of development tools it is comparatively easy to build mobile apps for most platforms using the universal but yet to be finalised HTML5 – JavaScript route rather than using the mobile operating system’s native code. A new version […]
There has, for some time, been a Holy Grail in programming of the concept of ‘write once, run anywhere’. It could be strongly argued that web technologies have gone a long way to achieving this, particularly with adaptive designs allowing a single web site to re arrange page elements depending on the form-factor of the […]
The other day however I found a plugin for Apache Cordova that provides a WebSQL database on the Windows Phone platform (https://github.com/msopentech/cordova-plugin-websql/ ) so by adding this to my code it would add a database to Windows Phone devices and it should then be possible to build and distribute the same code on all platforms. I […]
I like many have finally upgraded my Windows 8.1 machine to 10. This I did using my Action Pack subscription. I have already done one of the other machines in the office and all went well so I was pretty confident that it was safe to do this upgrade to my main work machine. All […]