Nicholas Hagen

As mentioned in my previous post, this article series is around my Budget Analyzer application that I built using Grails and jQuery Mobile frameworks. I hope to present this as a more real world example of using Grails along with using jQuery Mobile for the client side responsible design that can scale to any sized [...]

I recently decided to sit down and play with jQuery Mobile and absolutely fell in love with it. I’ve been designing web applications for years, but the pure simplicity in jQuery Mobile is absolutely amazing. The one part I’ve never been good at is graphics with respect to web design. jQuery Mobile removes that requirement [...]

One of the biggest problems I see with the web today is the ability to stream data. In the early years it was all done by polling which results in slower data retrieval and constant up and down connections which are expensive. Then, flash and java-based applets came to the scene and provided raw TCP/IP [...]

Great article below on developing for both next generation and current gen browsers.  I firmly believe in this approach in developing your site to utilize new features while back supporting older browsers in less dramatic ways.  If sites move to this model, users will have a much more compelling reason to upgrade in order to [...]

The biggest issue right now with web related specifications is browser adoption. The specs clearly state that at least two mainstream browsers must implement the standard to be considered complete. In most cases that tends to be Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer. The first of these three has always been adapt to adopting standards. [...]