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December 12, 2011

Trapping jQuery Mobile Dialog Open And Close

I needed to trap the events triggered when a dialog is opened and closed in a jQuery Mobile app. After trying all sorts of combinations of open, close, and dialog events, I found that these will do the trick: // Dialog opened $('#myDialog').on("pageshow", function() { alert("Opened"); }); // Dialog...

December 11, 2011

jQuery Mobile Control Refresh Gotcha

jQuery lets you manually manipulate controls like lists. For example, you can do something like this to add an item to a list: $('#myList').append(' Some text '); In jQuery Mobile , if you manually update lists like that, then when you are done you must force the list to refresh so that formatting...

December 8, 2011

JTSage And The Missing jQuery Mobile Controls

jQuery is freaking amazing, you all know that already. jQuery Mobile ? It's a great v1 effort (and it just won the Innovation of the Year award), but is not quite as complete as it needs to be. If you are playing with jQuery Mobile, you owe it to yourself to check out JTSage's jQuery Mobile plugins...

December 7, 2011

BlackBerry PlayBook Hard Reset

My BlackBerry PlayBook hung yesterday. It took some digging to find the magic "hard reset" button, so I'm posting it here for when I need it next. Simultaneously press the power button and the volume down button, and hold for 10 - 15 seconds. Tada!

December 7, 2011

Play Game Of Flex, Win Flash Builder

A group of my fellow Adobe evangelists have created the Game of Flex for iPad, Android tablets, and (soon) Blackberry PlayBook. The game consists of questions to quiz you on Flex development. If you correctly answer the quiz, you'll get a chance to win a copy of Flash Builder 4.6 (one license per...

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