Walkable — Sample PhoneGap app

I’d like to take a moment and introduce “Walkable Restaurants” (or just “Walkable” as I like to call it), a new application that I built to demonstrate how to create PhoneGap applications using Backbone.js. Built using PhoneGap, Twitter Bootstrap (UI), Leaflet (Maps), Backbone.js, App-UI, Underscore.js, jQuery, and iScroll. Walkable Source (GitHub) →

Cordova client tool

The command line tool to build, deploy and manage Cordova-based applications. Once installed — via npm — you get to do stuff like this: cordova create ~/KewlApp cd ~/KewlApp cordova platform add ios cordova platform add android cordova plugin add http://example.org/Kewlio-1.2.3.tar.gz cordova build Great to see how the Cordova Platform (formerly known as PhoneGap — …

Geocoder — The almost missing Geocoder PHP 5.3 library.

Uses FreeGeoIp, HostIp, IpInfoDB, Yahoo! PlaceFinder, Google Maps, Bing Maps, OpenStreetMaps, Geoip, and CloudMade geocoding services to geocode addresses and IP Addresses. <?php // Create an adapter $adapter = new \Geocoder\HttpAdapter\BuzzHttpAdapter(); // Create a Geocoder object and pass it your adapter $geocoder = new \Geocoder\Geocoder(); // Then, register all providers your want $geocoder->registerProviders(array( new \Geocoder\Provider\YahooProvider( …

Burnside, a Tweet-to-Email Gateway

From the guys over at Panic, who handle all support tweets via e-mail using a self-built solution named Burnside which bridges the gap between Twitter and e-mail: Tweets go into a regular mailbox. When we reply, they go back out as tweets. Since multiple people can work out of the same IMAP box, it’s fast …