Optimising your Application with Grails Resources Plugin
It’s been nearly a year since we first announced the Resources framework for Grails. It’s about time we looked at some of the more advanced features that it provides so that you can make the most of this very powerful plugin.
Design compromise, usability, iBooks and Apple
I hear many people complain about the “cheesy” book binding and page metaphor in iOS iBooks and other similar UI choices Apple have made in iOS and OS X Lion. I think iBooks is a special case… here’s why.
Native will beat web apps on desktop too
It’s OK, I have two sets of flameproof clothing on.
Further to my contribution to the everlasting mobile web apps vs native debate I was discussing these issues again with good friend Richard (who is truly called a platform ninja), and again cropped up the “why is a tablet different from a desktop then? why is native better for tablets and not desktop?” question.
Results of the Grailsrocks Survey
A few weeks back I ran a little survey to get a rough idea of opinion on paid support for Grails plugins, as well as some potentially useful community stats.
The web does not a mobile app make.
This is a rant about the Web vs. Native debate in mobile.
I’m very squarely on the “Native is best” side. Obviously if you don’t have the funds/expertise to make a native app then you’ll choose web – but I would wager this is only viable if you don’t actually want to make money out of the app. Unless you have some amazingly compelling content (like pictures of naked people) that can not be got at by native means.
