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2014 was a mixed year. I lost my brother Dr. Vijaya Raghavan Krishnaswamy, a neuro-surgeon by profession. He left a void that cannot be filled. I did not complete the book I was writing. Regarding the blogs I did quite well with a record number of posts.                                                  Year   Posts Hodentek.blogspot.com           2013   94                                                  2014   246 Hodente...

Costs Rs.9199.00 and Microsoft will be looking forward to a 'Money Rain' as the phone is quite affordable and best off breed. You can buy in store or online starting Nov 28,2014. This is the first time Microsoft has its own brand instead of tagged on to Nokia. Microsoft's best of the productive products Office, Skype, OneNote, OneDrive and Bing are all free for the life of the phone. For previous posts on this blog read here to see the specifications: http://hodentekmobile.blogspot.com/2014/11/all-5s-for-microsoft-lumia-535.html Read the full story here: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/technology/story/first-microsoft-lumia-launched-in-india-for-rs-9199/1/403818.html

HTML5 is just one of the essential features for HTML based phone apps that provide the scaffolding. You will also need CSS3 to dress it up in more delightful ways and of course JavaScript to power the interactivity of the app without which it is dead in the water. While you could use DOM and vanilla JavaScript, it is lot more easier to use a framework (there is a learning curve), a User Interface Framework which combines JavaScript with CSS to provide a set of programming tools to deliver rich mobile applications. Quite a lot of them use jQuery in one form or another. The frameworks save a lot of development time and effort. There are different kind of devices (iPhones, Androids and Windows Phones) but also different operating systems (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, etc) and it will be desirable if one could use one tool to cover all these variations. This area has developed to the extent that you can develop cross-platform, cross-device (response design!) apps but still there iss...