Making websites that are iPhone-friendly is easy enough, but I recently wanted to make a site that felt like a real iPhone app.  I don’t own a Mac, so building a native iPhone app wasn’t an option. I turned to iWebKit 5.0, a lightweight DHTML toolkit for making websites that look “native” on the iPhone. [...]

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Last year I led a software project that employed a SOA architecture and a Flex UI.  The features we were able to build with FlexBuilder (now FlashBuilder) were pretty sweet and remarkably easy…  I’ve become a huge fan of Flex as a result. The new FlashBuilder 4 provides some powerful new tools for integrating with [...]

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Rogers Cadenhead recently posted his thoughts on why the rssCloud concept “failed to catch on.”    This is a response to his post and an attempt to foster further discussion in the community. Blue Sky The main idea behind rssCloud is that your RSS reader can ask to be notified when a feed changes (push), [...]

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