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Mobilize Your MongoDB! (Part One)

Editor’s Note: Reposted with permission from the OpenShift developer blog, and author Grant Shipley. Summary: This is the first part of a blog series that details how to develop a mobile application that is backed by MongoDB and a PaaS.  MongoDB makes a great companion to this mobile application given its ability to shard and the nature of being able to store JSON documents with little data manipulation required.  In...

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Comparing Titanium and PhoneGap

Original article can be found here. A common question I get asked at developer events and conferences is how Titanium compares to PhoneGap. I thought I would take some time to explain how each technology works at a high level, and assess how the two technologies compare to one another. From 10,000 feet, PhoneGap and Titanium appear to be similar. They both provide tools for cross-platform mobile development. Both also require the use of...

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Native BlackBerry 10 Support Coming To Titanium

Earlier today, Fearless Leader announced Appcelerator’s plans to support native application development for the BlackBerry 10.  Work is already underway to implement the Titanium JavaScript API on BlackBerry 10 devices using BlackBerry’s NDK. Unlike previous versions of the BlackBerry OS, development tools will be available for Mac, Linux, and Windows users.  In a few hours, I will be demoing a very early version of this...

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Launch Day Event Schedule and Webinar Links

2.0 has launched, and Titanium developers are starting to play around with the new features in this release. We’d like to invite you once again to join us for some online events, coordinated with several of our live developer meetups. Welcome to Titanium 2.0! Thursday, April 19, 9am PST Register for the webinar! In this session, Appcelerator CTO Nolan Wright, Product Manager Jo Ann Bucker, and Platform Evangelist Kevin Whinnery will...

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Release your Titanium app on mobile web and win!

The mobile web platform is coming along fast, with a release candidate build available in Titanium 2.0. We’re looking to help developers start targeting mobile web today, so we thought we’d make it interesting. If you have a Titanium application that is available in an app store today, you are eligible to win $1,000 cash from Appcelerator in our 2.0 Mobile Web developer contest. To enter, simply port your existing Titanium...

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