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Mobile Frameworks -- JQT (Formerly jqTouch)

Continuing on from our overview, an in depth look into JQT. JQT (formerly jqTouch) is the Grandaddy of all of the HTML5 Mobile Frameworks and is almost 5 years old (a lifetime in mobile web frameworks), I guess iUI was around but jqTouch was my introduction to mobile web development. Initially jQuery plugin (remember the time when everything was a jQuery plugin?) it grew into a relatively ...

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The State of HTML Mobile Frameworks in 2014

A year I released my mobile app Recipe Folder using jQuery mobile and PhoneGap. While jQuery mobile did the job, I realized that while easy to get started with, jQuery Mobile is fairly bloated and the upgrade cycle was taking days of work rather than just dropping in the new files. I figured that there had to be a better solution, and I researched the various other HTML5 Mobile platforms when I had to create a mobile application for work. My directives was to find a framework ...

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SLOC Counter

I needed a quick way to count the lines of code in a program, skipping empty lines and ignoring commented lines so I could get an estimate of how many lines of code a Library used (I have a current interest in SLOC and complexity). I searched online to find such a beast and was surprised that the only online Line of Code Counters I could find didn't take comments or whitespace into account. Github does a nice job of this, but not every ...