I've been remiss in not posting much this past several months. I've been keeping notes on various projects in Evernote that need to turn into blog posts and articles. These are along the lines of tips, tricks, and design ideas I've explored for the mobile version of maps.
Drop me a note if you're looking for something you can't find.
Back in September, I attended the UCLA Mobile Web Framework conference. This was a group of about 100 UC and CSU folks gathered for two days to talk about the MWF and its direction.
While I was taking some vacation days to work with the contractor on the septic line replacement, I finished some work on the mobile app I've been prototyping. Here are some screen shots and notes from this stage.
After struggling for a few days thinking that my jQuery code was somehow wrong, I found that I hadn't selected the various "supported device orientation" icons in my proejcts' target screen.
To navigate to the this window, select the project, find the 4 icons and select away. While you're there, setup an App Icon and Launch Images.
Over the past few weeks, I started working on a jQuery Mobile based application that would tie together some of my work with campus maps and campus events. My use case was getting a user information about departments, buildings, campus and local events. I've gotten to an alpha version that is deployed to my iPhone and iPad.
I wanted to spend some time learning the following technologies: