Category: Sencha

Sencha: NCDevCon Presentation Materials

Thanks everyone for attending my presentation on Sencha Architect. I hope the Movie Finder project will provide some insight into how to use Architect to build / prototype your own apps.
I am taking a moment to post the materials I used; hope this makes things clear as mud :o)

Presentation Slides: MVC App in Hours (pdf)

Step-by-Step: Building the Movie Finder App in Sencha Architect (pdf)

Cheers,
B.

Sencha: Presentation Slides from SourceDevCon 2012: Combining Sencha Touch 2 and ExtJS4 into one project

They said it could not be done. But for all who attended my talk at Source Dev Con 2012 about Combining your Sencha library projects into one, now know, that we can fight this fight! We even have a reasonable chance to win battles.
First, thanks to all who have taken time to listen and were polite enough not to yawn in front off me (though I did not check when I turned my back).
Second, if things were unclear (sometimes after listening to many people talk ceaselessly ideas get swished around the head and start chasing each other down into a land of fog and confusion ;o) please contact me and I will try my best to respond more clearly.
Here is the sample code.
Here are the presentation slides for your continued entertainment.

Cheers,
B.

Sencha: Parsing Touch 2

I started an experiment  to see whether the whole JS script code of the Sencha Touch 2 library could be parsed into a JSON representation for further analysis.
After going at it a few different ways I was finally able to do it using the Esprima JS library.

Here is the JSON representation of the code if you are interested and want to take a look yourself.

I used this as part of analysis to compare ExtJS4 and Sencha Touch 2 class libraries. Interesting to find out what code has potential to run unmodified in both of them vs code that probably will not.
Here is the link to resulting analysis spreadsheet (17KB).

Overall we are looking at a good chance that things will not work; 77% of the classes in ExtJS4 do not have a representation in Sencha Touch 2.

Cheers,
B.

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Sencha: Charlotte User Group Meeting

Yesterday we had our first Sencha Charlotte Usergroup Meeting. It turned out to be productive discussions around what, when, and how we want to meet.
We also were able to put more meat on the bone for future presentation. Thus, this is shaping up to be a good group and I am looking forward to learn new and interesting things.
Currently we have meetings scheduled until September. Here are the topics that we intend to cover:

  • 5/31 – Expand Designer 2 Demo – Bilal
  • 6/28 – PhoneGap – Jojo
  • 7/26 – MVC in JS (Backbone, Sencha) – Joe 
  • 8/30 – Unit Testing w. Jasmin/ QUnit   –  Pramod
  • 9/27 – Sencha GWT   –  Brad

More detail for each of these meetings is available on our group meetup site.

Cheers,
B.