Fokke Zandbergen

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JIRA to MarkDown

Every now and then I do a pull request (PR) to contribute to open source projects like Appcelerator’s Alloy for Titanium. Like many other software developers, including myself, Appcelerator uses JIRA for managing the project and GitHub for managing the actual code.

by Fokke Zandbergen 08/08/2013 | 254 Words

Using Alloy’s new BuildLog

The upcoming 1.2 version of Alloy uses a new utility module named BuildLog which reads and writes a JSON file at build/alloy/build.json. For now it’s used only to log the selected theme. This way the compiler can tell if the theme has changed since the previous compile and optimize the current one.

by Fokke Zandbergen 31/07/2013 | 190 Words

Generate non-retina images

Update: With the assets command of the TiCons CLI / Module this can be done even simpeler by calling $ ticons assets or an alloy.ymk using:

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task("pre:load", function(event, logger) {
    require('ticons').assets();
});

With all these different pixel densities, you can spend a good deal of time resizing images. For iOS, this means downsizing your retina @2x images by 50%. I wrote a little NodeJS […]

by Fokke Zandbergen 29/07/2013 | 178 Words

Alloy Links

For my talk at London Titanium I had collected a bundle of  shortlinks at Bitly’s. Here are my favorites:

by Fokke Zandbergen 27/07/2013 | 148 Words

How I work

After my previous post Why NOT go for fixed price? I’ve experimented with different alternatives. The underlying goal has been to offer the clarity of a fixed price without allowing the focus to shift from the product to an eggtimer. After all, as an app imagineer I like to help you both imagine how your app […]

by Fokke Zandbergen 26/07/2013 | 265 Words

Alloy Tips & Tricks

I was invited to come over and give a talk at the London Titanium meetup group today. First Julian Frasier did an introduction about Alloy and after the break I share as many Alloy tips, tricks and hacks I could fit in 25 minutes. I didn’t made it through all the slides, but you can […]

by Fokke Zandbergen 23/07/2013 | 85 Words

The myth of the native app

This is a translation of a Dutch article I recently wrote for the the Enterprise Appstore platform. Shortly after writing this article, Appcelerator announced it’s next major release for Titanium. Though still in early stages, it’s very promising. No longer will they use a JavaScript interpreter like described in the article, but they will switch […]

by Fokke Zandbergen 23/07/2013 | 564 Words

Custom Alloy view components

This morning I was trying to use Appcelerator’s Styled Label Module in an Alloy project and discovered how Alloy’s namespace feature can be used to create custom Alloy view components.

by Fokke Zandbergen 14/07/2013 | 660 Words

London Titanium

In about two weeks time, I’ll be speaking at the London Titanium user group. I will share some Alloy Tips & Tricks, but first Julian Fraser gives an overview over Alloy and shows how it simplifies Titanium development.

by Fokke Zandbergen 12/07/2013 | 116 Words

Alloy applyProperties memory leak

I just fixed a serious memory leak in an Alloy widget, caused by carelessly passing widget arguments to a view’s applyProperties method. This blog explains the cause and fix for this leak.

by Fokke Zandbergen 04/07/2013 | 281 Words

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Elsewhere

Between February 2015 and June 2016, I published most of my Appcelerator-related posts on Appcelerator.com

Between November 2013 and January 2015, I published most of my Titanium-related posts on tiDev.io.

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