Ben Forta's Blog - JavaScript

Raymond Camden On JavaScript Design Patterns

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:32:00 -0400

Raymond Camden has been digging into JavaScript design patterns. His latest post in the serires is a great disucssion of The Revealing Module Pattern.

Check Out Flippin' Awesome

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:03:00 -0400

Our very own Brian Rinaldi has created Flippin' Awesome, a home for "top-notch resource for web and mobile developers publishing regular articles, tutorials and news that is cutting-edge, useful and fun". Among his initial content is a great series on Getting Started With PhoneGap Build.

Check Out Drawscript

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:15:00 -0400

The very talented Tom Krcha has created Drawscript, an Illustrator extension that generates graphics code from vector shapes in real-time.

Andy Trice Builds A Game In PhoneGap

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:08:00 -0400

Adobe evangelist Andy Trice has outdone himself this time. PhoneGap Legends is an infinitely-scrolling top-view RPG themed game that is implemented entirely in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PhoneGap. Performance is superb, and Andy has included lots of details, videos, and source via GitHub.

Appliness March 2013 Is Out

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 23:37:00 -0400

The March 2013 issue of Appliness features an interview with W3C champion Lea Verou, as well as lots of JavaScript, jQuery, PhoneGap, and CSS goodness.

Most Read And Highest Rated ADC Articles

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 16:17:00 -0400

ADC has published the list of the most read and highest rated articles thus far this year. No surprise that the list is dominated by Web standards and PhoneGap.

Coming Soon: NCDevCon

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:24:00 -0400

NCDevCon is the largest developer conference in North Carolina, and Adobe has long been a supporter of this annual event. Back for a 4th year, NCDevCon is September 29 - 30, 2012 in Raleigh at Centennial Campus. If you are looking for training on all things web and mobile, check it out.

Aaron Hardy Explains RequireJS

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:33:00 -0400

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader. It is optimized for in-browser use, but it can be used in other JavaScript environments. Using a modular script loader like RequireJS will improve the speed and quality of your code. (This from the RequireJS web site). Ok, so you want know what that actually means, and how to use RequireJS? Then check out Aaron Hardy's ADC article Dependency management with RequireJS.

Check Out Adobe Shadow On Labs

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:32:00 -0400

Adobe Shadow is a new inspection and preview tool that allows mobile web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining the preview process, making it easier to create and optimize content for mobile devices. Shadow allows device pairing, synchronized browsing and refreshing in sync with your computer, and remote inspection and debugging so you can see HTML/CSS/JavaScript changes instantly on your device. Shadow is now on Adobe Labs, and the Shadow team is also blogging.

JavaScript Client For Data Services

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:03:00 -0400

The upcoming version 4.6 of Data Services includes an HTML5 / JavaScript client SDK, and this post contains useful links to presentations on the subject.

On FalconJS And Cross-Compiling ActionScript To JavaScript

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:02:00 -0400

Adobe's Bernd Paradies started a series of blog posts on FalconJS and Cross-compiling ActionScript to JavaScript, and has since been posting away on the subject.