I love space and astronomy. I’ve been using these as ways to teach myself matrix math and some of the advanced astrophysics that i just didn’t grasp the first time I’d taken courses on them in college. Maybe I went to a hard school, or maybe I’m just a late bloomer, but I’m finding that [...]

Last month, I saw one of the most inspiring JavaScript projects on the web!  The Isogenic Engine is a game library written in HTML5 that can be used to build games on top of – this means that advanced Flash-like isometric games that run on the iPhone/iPad/Android can all run efficiently at fast speeds and [...]

Our Mobile Application that we’ve been building for the US Government was recently featured on our company’s front page.  This application is called the COIN Collector (Counter Insurgency Data Collector), and is an example of some of the cool work that the government is looking at to take advantage of mobile platforms. While most of [...]

I’ve been asked to build a mobile strategy and prototype for the Tysons Corner area of Northern Virginia.  One of the problems is that Tysons is (combined between Tysons I and Tysons II) one of the two largest malls in the country.  Surrounding it is the intersection of four major roads, along with dozens of [...]

I’ve been working on putting together an “Army App Store” to give to a few soldiers for testing. I’ve been trying to think of what apps would be best to install on SmartPhones that would have the most utility to soldiers in the field. One of the biggest misconceptions that people have is that soldiers [...]

I love HTML5! HTML5 is brand new – just available on a few browsers. The new features, especially the use of local SQL databases and canvases bring so much power to web application development. Before, things that you needed a full web server are now doable all within the browser. I think this is a [...]

For the third post in this series, I’ll be showing how to do some pretty advanced iPhone applications using Mobile Safari and HTML5. These should all work on the latest OS3 that came out today. What’s special about these is that they are not actual “Apps” that get loaded to your phone from the app [...]

Thanks to a great suggestion by AbigailG, I’ve updated the Flickr Proxy I wrote to search on dates as well as tags. I’ve found this improves the quality of the images returned. Great idea, and the code is zipped up here. You can replace the ws.php into the previous Nearly1 example and you’ll get instant [...]

The new iPhone OS3.0 will be coming out soon, and one of my favorite features is updating Mobile Safari to have much better support for HTML5. HTML5 is still in draft, but basically makes HTML much smarter and more powerful – by adding features like GeoLocation, 3D-animations, Offline Storage, and more. This is the first [...]