The Technology Institute of Piedras Negras (ITPN), in the state of Coahuila Mexico, hosted the 4th Congress of IT and Computer Science from April 16^th – 18th. During the event, many speakers presented topics regarding innovation, technology and entrepreneurship.  There were as well as several workshops taking place for those students that wanted to get hands-on experience with the latest technology in design and development.

It’s now clear that mobile is the path consumer markets are leaning towards to utilizing mobile apps as their preferred way to conduct e-commerce. According to a study by Gartner, 70% of customer interactions will originate from a mobile device by 2015. More and more organizations are realizing that mobile can significantly impact their core business operations and are transitioning to a mobile-based strategy.  Therefore, we partnered with Propelics to deliver our most recent webinar: "HTML5 vs Native Apps: Demystifying The Decision Making Process"

Note: To Learn more about Native vs HTML5, register to our Free Webinar

From the idea to reality

You have a great idea to create the most awesome app in the world. You are excited and ready to start creating it. Well, before you go any further, there’s a few things you must consider and it doesn’t matter if you are a big company or just an adventurer of mobile development.

Hello there! As you may or may not know, Appcelerator’s Titanium, a cross-platform mobile development tool, has a shiny new framework called Alloy. Alloy works with an MVC pattern (Models, Views and Controllers) and allows you to effectively manage your code, assets and resources within a project. Since Alloy is fairly new, developers are still getting around how to perform some simple tasks using this great new tool.

This tutorial will guide you throughout a series of steps on how to insert and retrieve information from a remote database using simple PHP web services to handle the connection, retrieve the data from the database using JSON format, and show that data in a simple TODO list application using the alloy framework and a HTTP client.

Appcelerator’s Titanium mobile development platform has come a long way since its introduction in late 2008. With every new release, we have seen a lot of growth in the community all around the world as well as the tremendous products people have built using Appcelerator’s open source technology.

Since we started working with the Alloy framework for Appcelerator Titanium Studio, together with tools like Sublime Text 2, there’s something that’s been bothering me and it is that visual stylesheets (*.tss) are not automatically recognized by any syntax and show up as plain text.

Is it November already? Time goes by so fast when you have fun! And we always have heaps of fun when great developers join us in our Official Appcelerator Titanium training classes.

This time we were joined by a rather talented group of people with little experience in Titanium’s platform but with just the right attitude to learn how to create some amazing mobile applications. The class started on a Wednesday, November 7th and ended on Friday night. We had a chance to talk about the upcoming changes in the mobile industry as well as reviewing best practices on platform specific elements in user experience, user interface and of course cross-platform mobile development.

We also had the chance to officially introduce Hugo Flores as our most recent addition to the iTexico Titanium Certified Experts, something that we are extremely proud of! Hugo was joined on the trainer side by our experienced Titanium Expert, Tony Duran.

Below is the list of our newly certified Titanium Developers, congratulations!

¡Ahora tienes la oportunidad de tomar de manera oficial el curso "Building Native Mobile Apps" en Español y Certificarte en el Desarrollo Móvil!

This year’s Codestrong mobile developers conference, that took place at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco, has officially ended. It was 3 days of continuous innovation, great talent and very interesting presentations regarding new features for future releases of Titanium, amazing frameworks like Alloy and interviews with industry leaders that use Titanium and are paving the way for other companies on the mobile landscape.

Partner of the Year!

During the closing ceremony, developers and companies were given awards on a variety of areas where Appcelerator recognizes all the great value that those people or organizations provide to the technology industry. We are honored to have been awarded with the Partner of the Year Award, which was received by our CEO Anurag Kumar and Richard Dutra our VP of Business Development who happily posed for the picture below.