Using Adobe Captivate for iPhone Applications

By Jonathan Camp

Steps to use Flash iPhone packager to create iPhone app. from Captivate SWF

Publish to iPhone – From Captivate 5 and eLearning Suite 2

Org-mode – the extensible emacs add-on for outlining and project management

By Jonathan Camp

Org-Mode: Your Life in Plain Text

Org-mode is for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system, and it’s FREE.

Org-mode is an add-on for the popular free EMACS editor (programmers editor) and adds a full outline and todo list. All the files are stored in standard txt (ASCII) format so can be edited by any software if required. If you have a dropbox account you can store your outlines on your dropbox account and edit them using any editor or use the EMACS add-on to see the proper outlining.

The author suggests that this wonderful outline tool can be used for GTD, planning, notebooks and web/pdf authoring. There is also extensive documentation. There are some good tutorials covering introduction and power users guides with a useful screencast overview (25 minutes).

The beauty of this product is that it is very extensible and can be adapted by power users to do just about anything that requires outlining and maintaining lists. The files can be published to HTML and XHTML plus other formats such as LaTeX and Gantt Charts for project management integration. There’s a very interesting tech talk from GOOGLE that discusses Org-mode (46 minutes) and well worth listening to.

Leo Laporte’s Podcast network has recently published a podcast that discusses and talks to the author (Carsten Dominik) about org-mode – well worth a listen (as are all the FLOSS podcasts)

15 Web Services we rely on everyday

By Jonathan Camp

• 15 Web Services We Rely On Every Day
  15 Web Services We Rely On Every Day – an interesting article blog about 15 key web services used everyday. 

  The list includes:
  Zendesk, GetSatisfaction, SendGrid, MailChimp (my favourite mail manager for newsletters, etc.), Apigee, String, ExpressionEngine, Chartbeat, Mint, PivotalTracker, SalesForce, RightSignature, GotoMeeting, Xero, DropBox, Office Glico.

  These are amongst the best cloud based services out there and I recommend most of them. I may be blogging about individual ones over the next few weeks…

  (tags: webservices popular services)

SimpleDiagrams, Git and jQuery Mobile

By Jonathan Camp

• SimpleDiagrams FREE adobe air application to wireframe and design drafts
  The SimpleDiagrams Free Version has enough features to create your diagrams quickly and export your work to PNG. If you like what you see, you can update to the Full Version and you’ll then be able too save your work, publish your diagrams to sites like Basecamp, and work with multiple fonts.
  (tags: tools diagram wireframes tool)
• Using Git for web app deployment « Senko Rasic’s Blog
  Using Git for web app deployment
  (tags: git versioncontrol)
• How to write a simple application on jQuery Mobile / jQuery / Splashnology – Web Design and Web Technology Community
  jQuery Mobile application development

  Framework jQuery Mobile appeared not so long time ago and its quality was greatly improved. A number of subsystems have been rewritten (both for clarity and for performance) and cross-browser compatibility has seen a marked increase in quality. Previously I’ve worked with jQTouch and Sencha Touch. They both have their advantages and disadvantages, but I’d like to focus on the development on jQuery Mobile. Now I’m going to describe the process of creation of the simple application with several pages, Twitter integration, Google Maps and a set of basic elements.

  (tags: jquery mobile javascript howto tutorial)

jQuery and AddToAny social media generator

By Jonathan Camp

• 5 Steps Toward jQuery Mastery | Encosia
  Five quick tips that I found valuable while learning jQuery in depth. I learned them the hard way so you don’t have to! Really good post outlining using jquery with:

1. Using Firebug to experiment interactively
2. Caching selector results
3. Explains about the best times to use jQuery (e.g. NOT all the time!)
4. Advanced selectors, filters and traversals

• Share button and Subscribe button generator – AddToAny – FREE

  Help your visitors share & bookmark your pages and subscribe to your feeds using any service. System to interactively create a bookmarking widget that allows your users to subscribe to all the popular social networking systems. Easy to use and can generate in multiple languages.

  Addtoany has a comprehensive API that allows you to get and set key parameters. The API page has plenty of good examples of how to use. The button can be small and unobtrusive. This system can be used with Feedburner, and the service is absolutely FREE

  (tags: tools web2.0 social bookmark bookmarking button wordpress socialnetworking)