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With PhoneGap having been discontinued, you'll need to find a replacement when it's time to update your app. Cordova still works great, so you won't have to make a lot of changes. …

Here's the Migration Guide: https://volt.build/news/2020/08/12/migrating-from-phonegap.h...

My team has been working on a modern alternative for a few months now. With a couple months of beta under our belts, we’re ready to go live tomorrow (Aug 11) at noon EST. Our goal …

Plans have not been finalized, so it's a placeholder for now. You can see more here: https://volt.build/plan/

Hey HN, I’m George and I co-developed VoltBuilder ( https://volt.build ) with James and Tomo. VoltBuilder is a modern replacement for PhoneGap. Early in the COVID crisis, I was run…

For Windows, MacOS, iOS and Android: check out AppStudio. It lets you code in VB like BASIC. A VB like Design Screen lets you drag and drop visual controls. Output is JavaScript/HT…

They're certainly teaching programming to girls. In a country where most jobs are off limits to females, developing apps might be an interesting opportunity.

That's true of any subject. I think it's often more a factor of how a subject is taught than the subject itself. I've seen the curriculum they put together - it's pretty good. The …

Think of a Balance Sheet vs. Profit and Loss. Yes, I had a good base of assets after I left. But after that, I wanted to make sure I made more than I spent. Too many founders get l…

I quit when it stopped being fun. It had gone public and there were a couple of hundred employees. I was in the office on New Year's Day, celebrating the fact that I had been into …

1964 - my dad taught me programming on IBM EAM equipment. My kids are 3rd gen programmers!

Undocumented feature: If you put _subject into the name property of an input, it will be used as the subject of the email.

Which products do you think do a good job?

The term Hypertext was coined by Ted Nelson, probably 1965. Check out his book Computer Lib/Dream Machines. He envisioneers the internet quite well.

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Here is the code in an App Studio project: http://blog.nsbasic.com/?p=1060 Runs fine on an iPhone 5!

The one in the html should not be there.

I maintain a long-standing email list on Yahoo Groups. Some users are asking for a web forum type format, but others would like to continue to have the option of interacting by ema…