Rumors that Apple has been working on a television set have been going for quite some time. The fire was stoked on the release of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography, in which Jobs declares that he “finally cracked it” — referring to television user interfaces — and again in the past week after DigiTimes claimed [...]

Like webfonts, responsive design wasn’t something you heard much about until CSS3 specs started making it into popular browsers. Now, it’s the cool thing to do, and for good reason — it means one site to maintain for all devices. But it’s also a really challenging approach to web design. In this article, we look [...]

The Fuel Network has supported FITC events over the years and today is no different. SCREENS 2011, (formerly known as “FITC Mobile”), now dedicated to mobile, tablet and set top box development. Jam packed with information and a massive networking opportunity, SCREENS consists of presentations, demonstrations and panel discussions. It is one of the only [...]

I recently had the opportunity to get an inside look at a graduating class from Full Sail University. Future Coders may be a little misleading as these students have already been rocking out, but I’m still calling them “The Future” because they are now leaving school and heading out to join the community. Where They [...]

One sign of a developer power tool hitting critical mass is when a wellspring of Graphical User Interfaces explode onto the scene. It looks like Git — the distributed version control system authored by Linus Torvalds — has arrived. It brings with it a bevy of Git clients for Mac OS X. Some are old, some [...]

Manoj Sachwani — a contributor here at Fuel Your Coding — is launching a free weekly newsletter just for web developers! Manoj says there will be just one email each Saturday and absolutely no spam. Right now the newsletter will mostly be sharing valuable links for developers, but he is open to feedback and would love [...]

The very promising jQuery Mobile project is now in its first Alpha release! What better time to give it a spin with our (err… my) favorite web framework?! You should read jQuery Mobile’s official introduction section to familiarize yourself with its principles, but in a few words: you include it on the page, format your markup [...]

The trend toward rich client-side web applications has brought with it a need for robust JavaScript development tools. Firebug lead the way in this arena, but WebKit’s Web Inspector has caught up in a big way and ships with all recent versions of Safari and Chrome. One powerful tool inside Web Inspector that is likely under [...]

Earlier this summer, we kicked off a series on MongoDB where the goal was to write a simple todo application using native MongoDB drivers and three of our favorite scripting languages. This article is part 3 in that series, in which we write said application in PHP. The Interface In case you missed it you can look back [...]

Today’s software development culture promotes rapid development methodologies, minimum viable products, releasing early & often, and the axiom that “real artists ship.” What common thread weaves its way through all of these things? SPEED. If you haven’t felt the pressure to squeeze one more feature in before the release date, to fix an interface bug “RIGHT NOW!”, [...]

Probably one of the first topics covered when you get started learning about jQuery events is the concept of canceling the browser’s default behavior. For instance, a beginner click tutorial may include this: $("a.toggle").click(function () { $("#mydiv").toggle(); return false; // Prevent browser from visiting `#` }); This function toggles the hiding and [...]

Earlier this summer, we kicked off a series on MongoDB where the goal was to write a simple todo application using native MongoDB drivers and three of our favorite scripting languages. This article is part 2 in that series, in which we write said application in Ruby. The Interface You can refer back to the introductory article for [...]

A few weeks ago, I tweeted: General service announcement: it is written “jQuery” not “Jquery” or “JQuery”… even if it comes first in a sentence!!!! ∞ Then Saturday I put out a stronger tweet, and caught some stronger feedback for it: Test: “If you want jQuery help, which misspelling will greatly hurt your chances: a) Jquery b) JQuery c) [...]

MongoDB is an open-source, document-based datastore that has been gaining traction with developers lately. Its popularity is most likely due to the “middle ground” it provides between relational databases like MySQL and key-value stores like Redis. We’ve found the datastore a joy to use and wanted to feature it somehow on FYC. However, there are many, [...]

The trouble with having over 200,000 iOS apps in the App Store is how difficult it is to find high quality apps to fit our needs. With that in mind, I have compiled this list of eight apps that I’ve found invaluable as a developer. Without any further ado, here they are listed alphabetically: Air Display Price: $9.99 Type: [...]