Jim Cowart is an architect, developer, open source author, and overall web/hybrid mobile development geek. He is an active speaker and writer, with a passion for elevating developer knowledge of patterns and helpful frameworks.
If you are new to JavaScript or it has only been a minor part of your development effort until recently, you may be feeling frustrated. All languages have their quirks - but the paradigm shift from st...
Interested in using AppBuilder, but worried you may not be able to use it with your existing PhoneGap/Cordova projects? No problem! Jim Cowart explains how you can convert an existing PhoneGap/Cordova project to AppBuilder. It's not difficult, it just requires copying the right files and folders to the right place.
Interested in getting started with using Kendo UI Mobile with AppBuilder? In this post, Jim Cowart helps you hit the ground running, covering the basics of Kendo UI Mobile like views, transitions, data binding and themes.
New to Kendo UI and the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern? In this post, Jim Cowart looks at what MVVM is, how it can help structure client side code and how it works when using Kendo UI.
I've used RequireJS a lot over the last 2+ years, and as I've been learning Kendo UI, I was curious how well the two could work together. Burke Holland has already written a bit on this topic as well, but I wanted to find out if I could use the "text" loader plugin for RequireJS to load Kendo templates from external files. It turns out, you can. There's just a slight twist in doing so.