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Sweet. PhoneGap 1.0 was released on Friday!
I think most developers are familiar with PhoneGap, but in case you aren't:
“PhoneGap, an HTML5 platform, allows developers to use foundation web technology (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) to create native mobile applications. Using PhoneGap, developers can write their app once and deploy it to six major mobile platforms and app stores, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, webOS, Bada and Symbian. PhoneGap has been widely recognized as a game-changer for mobile app development. The open source code is downloaded approximately 40,000 times every month, more than 600,000 times in total.”
If you are interested in developing mobile applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, PhoneGap is a pretty easy way to go.
Learn more about the release of PhoneGap 1.0 here.
David Hayden
If you are interested in learning a quick way to get up and running with Node.js, check out the free, online Node.js Beginner Book. The book does a good job of getting you up and running on Node.js as well as helping you understanding blocking and non-blocking IO, event-driven callbacks, routing, and ways to architect and modularize your Node.js applications.
The table of contents includes:
- About
- Status
- Intended audience
- Structure of this document
- JavaScript and Node.js
- JavaScript and You
- A word of warning
- Server-side JavaScript
- "Hello World"
- A full blown web application with Node.js
- The use cases
- The application stack
- Building the application stack
- A basic HTTP server
- Analyzing our HTTP server
- Passing functions around
- How function passing makes our HTTP server work
- Event-driven callbacks
- How our server handles requests
- Finding a place for our server module
- What's needed to "route" requests?
- Execution in the kingdom of verbs
- Routing to real request handlers
- Making the request handlers respond
- How to not do it
- Blocking and non-blocking
- Responding request handlers with non-blocking operations
- Serving something useful
- Handling POST requests
- Handling file uploads
- Conclusion and outlook
The whole Node.js tutorial is on a single HTML Page and can be completed in a couple of hours. Just make sure you have Node.js installed as well as your favorite text editor to start developing Node.js applications.
Read the Node.js Beginner Book here.
David Hayden