After owning an iPhone for a few years now, I’ve decided I hate it and Apple’s style. It’s bland, it’s boring and it’s missing that certain “personal” feature that I crave! Since I don’t own an Apple computer I am unable to use the iPhone SDK and quite frankly I LOVE open source!
Today I finally got an Android powered personal communicator, the HTC Evo 4G! Not only that but I’m lucky enough to live in Austin where the 4g network is ridiculously fast. I will do a full review on it soon!
Now that I have the Evo, I’m super pumped to start creating apps for the Android market place – the only problem is I don’t know Java or anything about Android. Big problem, I know.
With the help of Piracetam, I’ve decided to learn how to create Android Apps and post tutorials as I learn for anybody else to follow along… So if you’ve ever been interested in learning how to make an Android app stay tuned by bookmarking or subscribing to the feed!
Microsoft has stepped into the arena to help aid Google and HTC battle Apple.
This is a really interesting move on Microsoft’s part – I’m curious about their long term strategy… any ideas?
I’ve said screw Apple and gotten rid of my iPhone and will be picking up an HTC Evo when it comes out and get coding for the Android OS… I have some interesting ideas for Android.
5 Inspiring HTML 5/CSS 3 Tutorials To Flex Your Web Design Skills
17 Aug
Posted by John-Henry as Tutorial, Web Development
As part of my passion workout routine on Monday’s I want to work on my HTML/CSS abilities since I am really passionate about web development. Today I decided to focus on HTML 5 and CSS 3 as I’m still unfamiliar with many of the new changes coming up and they ARE the future, right? (Looking at you xhtml2)
1 . Coding A HTML 5 Layout From Scratch
A really clean web 2.0 design from scratch. Only thing with this tutorial is if you wan’t the images he used you have to go to his final product and right click, save image as on them. Would have been nice to have a little zip file with everything included but the tutorial itself is very good. Also includes some extra reading on HTML5/CSS3 and a word on Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation.
2. HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using
Another great tutorial. I really like the author’s use of rounded corners and shadows to really show off some neat CSS capabilities. Source files and Demo of the final product readily available making this tutorial fun, easy and concise.
3. Designing A Blog With HTML 5
This design focuses on the structural and form elements of html 5 and doesn’t actually go into CSS. Great read for getting the logic of the structural and date/time elements.
This is actually a 6 part tutorial introducing many of the new modules of CSS 3. Similar to the previous tutorial, this one covers only CSS 3 and not really any structure markup. Very useful reference for designing with CSS3.
Another CSS 3 only tutorial. Covers many of the same things as the previous tutorial but also covers image/video masking. Repetition is important in learning + who doesn’t love WebMonkey?
