Sencha Touch is awesome, but sometimes can be frustrating. Some components just don’t have the events that you need. For example you can’t add a tap listener for a container inside of your controller’s config. I know you can add a listener on the component in the view, but I hate doing this because it […]
I use UITableViews in almost every app I build, and sometimes I need to implement a pull to refresh like a boss. Its pretty easy so lets get started. Adding a UIRefreshViewControl Lets set up the scenario first. You have a storyboard with a view controller, and inside the view controller is the the UITableView […]
There are a lot of ways to get data from websites, most of the time this is in the form of an API. When this isn’t available, you can build a scrapper to pull data right off of the website through its html. When can you use a scraper? Anytime you have access to html […]
Navigation is something that almost every web app has to deal with, and most of the time navigation will have an active state. There are a couple of ways to do this, and I am going to demonstrate using jQuery as well as plain javascript just in case you don’t have jQuery in your project. […]