Just pushed a new repo on Github. This one’s a boilerplate for a Facebook App. Read the README for more details. Do let me know how I can make this better! https://github.com/EdwinToh/Facebook-App-Boilerplate
Misc
Getting Started with NodeJS
I’ve always wanted to get started with NodeJS after seeing what it’s capable of and finally had the time to try it out! After hitting many stumbling blocks, I’ve decided to write a post about how to get started with NodeJS for beginners. As I don’t use Terminal much – and installing NodeJS is basically [...]
Analytics and Statistics Tracking for iPhone Apps
After being involved in helping to create Kinetic’s first iPhone Game, I learnt a few things about analytics for iPhone apps that I thought I could share here. Google Analytics Tracking iPhone apps is actually very similar to tracking websites using Google Analytics. You attach an event to a button action or a page, and [...]
10 websites to track new and beautiful apps
I’m a fan of interface design, usability and beautiful things. I love apps, especially free apps. How do I feed my addiction of looking at beautiful apps that has good usability and design? Here’s a list of websites I subscribe to to help me keep track of the latest and best apps. Remember to follow [...]
SG iPhone Apps: Update
It’s been some time since I’ve updated, and unfortunately, I don’t have time to share a new trick or two. Instead, find below, an updated list of local developed iPhone Apps. Definition http://itunes.apple.com/sg/app/definition/id398934629?mt=8 Developed by Sidwyn Koh, now 19, this convenient app lets you quickly look up any word in your iPhone’s clipboard. The app [...]
How much do you love MINI?
This is abit of a unrelated post. How far would you go to show your love for something? How about an impromptu tattoo? Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWBv_ECPa5o Enjoy!
Cooties: The Flash Killer?
This came up on FlashMagazine.com recently and I only saw it today. Cooties is trying to kill Flash by using HTML 5 to recreate the Flash IDE to create animations that you can export and play in the iPhone/iPad or any browser that supports HTML 5. It’s in its infancy right now, but it is [...]
Roundup of Mobile Frameworks
I’ve been very interested in development for mobile platforms ever since I attended the Flex User Group meeting in Singapore, where Rahul Garg talked about Developing AIR applications on Android.
However, I realised that performance of non-native applications on mobile devices, specifically Flash and AIR aren’t ideal. While I would really have liked to just pick up Java or Objective-C right away so as to have the best performance, writing different code to cater for different devices just isn’t going to be efficient and productive, especially if you work in an advertising agency with a small team. You can’t have the best of both worlds though, the sacrifice you have to make if you use a mobile framework, is losing the ability to call on hardware. (For example, you won’t be able to access the camera.)
Hence, I took a look at the various mobile frameworks that have popped up in the past year. Some of them are full fletched frameworks that cater to almost all mobile platforms, while some focus on deploying to both the iPhone and Android only.
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Updated Portfolio
I’ve updated my 3 year old portfolio to a temporary wordpress portfolio so that I can showcase my latest work and find it easier to update than the current one. The old site can still be accessed via http://www.qwertydesign.net/v1/ and the new site can be accessed here. The theme is a free WordPress theme from [...]