A really short post today that gathers Dan’s presentation at TiConf 2013 where he talked about optimizing the code in order to speed up Titanium Appcelerator apps.

The video

This will probably be the last blog post for 2012 and I don’t want to end this year and begin another one without sending an invitation to all Titanium Appcelerators DeveLovers out there to come and meet each other at TiConf 2013.

Let’s meet next February 23th in Valencia (Spain), have a drink and chat about Titanium, NodeJs, SQL Lite, your latest Android phone, the latest SDK available or the last night’s tapas tour. Whatever makes you happy, just come – spring in Valencia is awesome and there will also be plenty of time to tour the city and its bars too.

The presentation is in Spanish and I am also attaching the slides, just in case.

The slides of the presentation

I have to admit that when I like the design of a website I check its CSS and HTML to see the code hoping to learn something new. I’m horrible at design and I cannot make a box even if I have it in front of me for 24 hours non stop but I love all kinds of tricks to make the content more appealing: rounded boxes, sexy quote marks, bubbles, everything.

What is really weird is that all these fancy design elements are usually cut as images and put as background-image for some DIV while the vast majority of them can be recreated with CSS. I admit, not all of them are simple but some do and today I’ll show you my latest experiment. I love a certain kind of box and I’m trying to make it using CSS3 only. After a little prayer to the CSS3 God let’s start.

If you’re not a patient person skip all this and go directly to the test page.

Today I will try to talk about my experience as a freelancer that uses Titanium for all his mobile projects and how to build your career around the community.

I was watching the other day the talk that Lea Verou gave at Fronteers 2011 when she just proved that I don’t know CSS3 at all.

One thing caught my attention: CSS3 patterns. Making some of my own was the next step. It’s a great way of learning the specs a bit better cause I must confess I never read them properly and never bothered with the small details.

Inspired from the print world people from Adobe and Microsoft are coming with new features that might (or might not) be embedded into future CSS specs. These new features – CSS Regions and CSS Exclusions – will allow text to flow into webpages pretty much like they do in newspapers and magazines.

Dan Tamas was invited to talk about Titanium Appcelerator at TheEvnt 2011 in Cáceres, Spain, May 14th and the purpose of this talk was to present the advantages of using this framework to develop applications for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

It was an introductory talk in order to present to the Spanish developers an alternative to ObjectiveC and the very popular Java.

After seeing how AT reads a content generated with CSS pseudo-elements I was thinking to move on to HTML5. And since there are a lot of people saying we should mix HTML5 with ARIA in order to increase the accessibility of a website, then why not test and see what happens?

This article is about how screen readers speak the content added with CSS pseudo-elements :before and :after (in CSS3 they are ::before and ::after).

I am trying to learn to use AT when developing websites and recently I saw that no matter how W3C wants us to use a certain CSS element, there will always be developers/designers who will try to push the limits of the specification.

While I do advise you to NOT use pseudo-elements to generate useful content (limit yourself to generating quotes or design elements), just in case somebody thinks that the cool resides in generating content with CSS because everything else is already old, let’s see how people using screen readers will “benefit” from the idea.