2010
Learn HTML5 with these 4 quick HTML5 coding examples
In Tip-1, learn about the File API and how to drag & drop hard drive files to a webpage. In Tip-2 you code HTML5 using ContentEditable and LocalStorage to create a web sticky note. In Tip3 you will learn how to code HTML5 geolocation for the iPhone. In Tip-4 learn how easy it is to code drag and drop.
Creating mobile Web applications with HTML 5, Part 1
Combine HTML 5, geolocation APIs, and Web services to create mobile mashups. Learn how to find and track location coordinates to use in various Web services.
Creating mobile Web applications with HTML 5, Part 2
Unlock local storage for mobile Web applications with HTML 5. Improve the speed of your mobile apps with standardized local storage
Android & iPhone browser wars Part 2: Using HTML5, CSS, and jQuery
Dig deeper into the iPhone and Android by building a network management application that runs on both the iPhone and Android browsers. The app demos browser-local SQL storage and Ajax, key techs that enable a rich app experience from within the mobile browser. Additionally, the app leverages the popular jQuery JavaScript library.
2009
Exploring JSON and CouchDB
CouchDB is an open source document-oriented database-management system, accessible using a RESTful JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) API. CouchDB never claimed to be a replacement for relational databases, but it has become increasingly popular in Web applications, iPhone applications, and Facebook applications. See how CouchDB stores data in a semi-structured fashion, using a JavaScript-based view model
Apple's iPhone to Google's cloud computing
This article shows you how to connect Google App Engine, Google's cloud computing offering, with the iPhone, Apple's mobile platform. You'll also see how to use the open source library, TouchEngine, to dynamically control application data on the iPhone by connecting to the App Engine cloud and caching that data for offline use.
2008
Eclipse based Web apps for Apple's iPhone
Get a hands-on look at developing Web applications using Eclipse and the Aptana iPhone Development plug-in. Aptana's iPhone Development plug-in for Eclipse generates iPhone-specific projects and previews applications in a rotatable viewfinder. See the development of a Javadoc viewer for the iPhone, uncover tips for user iPhone interface design, and hear about the future of iPhone application development.
2007
How the iPhone can be a web storefront game changer
What is significant about the iPhone is not necessarily the phone itself, but rather the shift in the way web business will be done now that mobile phones with robust browsers have arrived on the scene. This article discusses the ramifications of purchasing goods and services with your phone and provides the starting point to deploy an Apple iPhone-enabled web storefront.
Build an iPhone remote control with PHP and XML
Use PHP combined with Joe Hewitt's iUI toolkit to build a Sailing Clicker like application (a remote control for a Mac and windows). The toolkit builds an iPhone-looking interface, and handles the feel of the interface. For example, as you page through a list of items, iUI sweeps from side to side, just like an iPhone application does.
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