The web application landscape has shifted rapidly in the past six months.  Due to Adobe’s changing view of the Flash Platform, many companies who have relied on technologies like Flex are looking to migrate to HTML5.  This transition can be tricky both for an organization as well as its developers.  Here are five steps that should be some of the...

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Universal Mind is pleased to announce the release of DeftJS, an open-source JavaScript framework of essential extensions for enterprise web and mobile application development with Ext JS and Sencha Touch.

DeftJS enhances Ext JS and Sencha Touch's APIs with additional building blocks that enable large development teams to rapidly build...

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Sencha has recently begun targeting the Adobe Flex community, promoting their products as the panacea for development in the HTML5 arena. That message is not far from the truth. While these frameworks don't address common frustrations with JavaScript, such as its lack of compile-time checking, error-prone scoping and other language specific...

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And the winner is: PhoneGap! The reasons why are actually simple.

PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium are both very popular open-source JavaScript frameworks for packaging and deploying mobile applications. At Universal Mind, we have clients that leverage both and clearly both frameworks have countless successful implementations on numerous...

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Choosing the right HTML5 framework can be a daunting task. Mobile compatibility, scalability, TV, embedded devices, browser, and extensibility are just a few things to consider. Start with jQuery and do your research. You CAN go wrong, so choose carefully. Let’s examine some of the choices.

jQuery — Possibly the most popular JavaScript library in...

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