From past one year, I have been working on cross-platform mobile frameworks. Thought I would share my point of views in it. Today Mobiles are part of daily life. It is big chanllenge to develop high performance mobile applications that satisfy customers expectations. The developement of new applications in short peroid for each mobile operating sysytem is a big expectation and challenge.

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We wanted to consume simple SOAP based web services from the iPhone, Android applications using RhoMobile framework. We dont want to use Savon as it got too much dependency to become rhodes-ruby extension.
Just thought lets write the raw soap client without using SOAP gems. Rhodes already support net-http and rexml(rhoxml) for such tasks.
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Recently, we had a task of consuming a SOAP based web serivces which sends and receive complex objects.
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Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web browsers across many platforms. It runs in many browsers and operating systems and it can be controlled by many programming languages and testing frameworks. I have used Selenium 1 (Selenium RC) as an Integration tool to test my rails application.

The installation steps to connect Selenium server with selenium client via ruby language as follows (more…)

Mozilla browsers provide bindings to achieve certain features like the text-overflow: ellipsis style.
XBL(XML Binding Language) provides a way to bind selected elements using specific CSS2 property -moz-binding. (more…)

Recently, I came across problem where the Google map was not resizing itself to its container when I select a new location or load the page for some events.
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With reference to our previous blog post “Open Invitation – Presentation on JQuery and Rails3“, we have kept the copy of the presentations at Slideshare.net.
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As part of our “ShareYourByte” program, this week we are giving interactive presentations on following topics

Venue: Spritle office
Timings: 5:30pm to 7pm
When: Wednesday, 29th September, 2010

This week onwards, we decided to open these sessions available to public participants as well (but with prior registration only as we got limited seatings).
If you are interested in attending, please send us an email to info@spritle.com

We wanted to add dynamic caption to the facebox popup, so we simply extended the original source to suite our requirements.
Now, if you supply title attribute with the a tag, it will show that as a caption
&lt a href=”somelink.html” title=”Facebox Title” rel=”facebox”>Show<a>
We published the implementation at http://github.com/spritle/facebox
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