The ComponentSelector class is a new class that brings the power of jQuery to Codename One. While it is not actually jQuery, it is heavily influenced by it. If you’re not familiar with jQuery, here is the 10 second intro. jQuery is a javascript library, created by John Resig in 2006, that has become a … jQuery/CSS Style Selectors for Codename One

I might have been unclear with about the bootcamp materials. It’s possible I implied that the materials will be available later. They won’t…​ It would be unfair to our bootcamp participants if the thing they pay for is then made available for free. There will be some content that we will make available some content … Bootcamp Parse Bonus and post Materials

One of the primary use-cases that benefits from our recent improvements for native peer integration, is “map apps”. That is, apps that use native maps in some shape or form. This is an extremely common uses case for mobile apps these days. Codename One has supported native maps for quite some time, but (up until … New Improved Native Google Maps

I want the bootcamp to sell out fast. Since the number of spots is very limited this should be doable. To make this happen we are adding to the bootcamp: 2 months of enterprise subscription (worth $798) Free access to upcoming & current courses (worth $398) Two one on one sessions with me (you’d be … Go for it!

This has been one of the more exhausting weeks for me in recent years. I don’t remember this level of exhaustion since those first few months of launching Codename One. Getting everything ready is the hard part, doing the actual bootcamp is the relatively easy part…​ Despite all of that we still got some things … Questions of the Week 46

It’s LIVE! Check out the bootcamp signup here. I’m going to build a new mobile startup within 2 weeks and teach some of you how that is done while doing that. Most people might assume I’m talking about one of those “MVP” cardboard startups…​ This isn’t the case! We’ll build a real ground breaking app … Build Something Big

I didn’t post much about new features in a while because we’ve been so busy with the bootcamp that we didn’t have as much time to write the posts or the actual functionality. But a few features/changes did slide in over the past couple of weeks as is pretty much inevitable. There are a lot … Better Logging

It’s LIVE! Check out the bootcamp signup here. Thanks for all the comments and interest on the previous post. In that post I discussed the importance of great app design and showed some of the cool newish demos I built to highlight the general direction. I also talked about the importance of personal mentorship especially … Spring Template and more about the Bootcamp

We had some painful downtime due the the big Amazon S3 crash that brought down a huge amount of services with it. I’ve been toying with the idea of improving the system so it doesn’t fully depend on S3 (mostly for performance as S3 isn’t as fast as one would expect). But right now we … Questions of the Week 45

It’s LIVE! Check out the bootcamp signup here. Thanks again to everyone who answered my questions. I got tons of valuable feedback on our work & what you would like to learn. It was super helpful and I’m grateful to all of you as you are literally shaping how this bootcamp (and the future of … Full Stack Java Bootcamp

Just last week I mentioned that we wanted to get push working on Windows & we’re pretty thrilled to announce that it’s available already…​ This means that we now support push on pretty much any major device with the exception of the Safari web browser. As part of this change we also decided to change … Push (Almost) Everywhere

Before we go into the tip I’d like to start with an apology to all the people I didn’t get back to. Earlier today I sent an email asking for help with the upcoming Codename One bootcamp. The anticipation and resulting email flood took me totally off-guard as I expected a couple of dozen responses … TIP: Select Table Row