Category Archives: HTML5

Book Review: Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Chad Lung

Today I’ll be reviewing the eBook version of Creating Mobile Apps with jQuery Mobile authored by Shane Gliser and published by Packtpub. You can check out Shane’s blog here.

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Book Review: PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Chad Lung

Today I’ll be reviewing the eBook version of PhoneGap 2.x Mobile Application Development authored by Kerri Shotts and published by Packtpub.

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Joining a newly created room on the Union server with JQuery and OrbiterMicro

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Chad Lung

Yesterday my article showed you how to add and remove rooms from the Union server. Today I’ll add a little more code to show how easy it is to join the newly created room.

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Watching, adding and removing rooms on the Union server with JQuery and OrbiterMicro

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Chad Lung

My previous article showed you how to get a count of all the connected users on a Union server instance. Today I’ll show you how you can list the rooms on the Union server as well as how to add … Continue reading →

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Get the total count of connected users on the Union server with JQuery and OrbiterMicro

Posted on June 15, 2011 by Chad Lung

My previous article showed you how to get a list of all the rooms with the total count of each person in those rooms on the Union server. Today I’ll show you how you can get the total number of … Continue reading →

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Get the count of people in each room on the Union server using JQuery and OrbiterMicro

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Chad Lung

My previous article showed you how to get a list of all the rooms on the Union server. Today I’ll show you how you can get a list of all the rooms on the Union server including how many people … Continue reading →

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Get a room list from the Union server using JQuery and OrbiterMicro

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Chad Lung

I’ve done a few articles now in regards to the Union Framework. Today I want to show you how to get a complete listing of rooms from the Union server. Using the Flash/Flex Reactor Client this is pretty easy to … Continue reading →

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Creating real-time games and web apps with the HTML5 Canvas, JQuery and the Union Platform

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Chad Lung

The HTML5 Canvas element opens up a whole new world in regards to what can be done in the browser especially for things like multi-player games. I’ve taken a couple of my previous articles: here and here and combined them … Continue reading →

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Using JQuery with the Union Platform and build a chat server and client

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Chad Lung

The recently released Union Platform has been anticipated by many developers including myself. One of the cool new features is the ability to use the Union Server with a pure JavaScript based client using their OrbiterMicro library (you can also … Continue reading →

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Using JQuery Mobile with the HTML5 canvas element to listen for touch events on the iPad and Android browsers

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Chad Lung

Lately I’ve been messing around with JQuery Mobile, the HTML5 canvas element as well as my Droid X and iPad 2. The nice thing is JQuery Mobile supports numerous touch events and makes life a lot easier. In fact, JQuery … Continue reading →

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