jQuery Mobile Workshop Instructions

First off, a heartfelt thank you for choosing to spend some time with me to learn about jQuery Mobile, I really appreciate it! In our time together I hope you'll learn enough to whet your appetite to dive into a technology that can really simplify mobile development. We'll spend a fair amount of time coding so here's what you'll need:

* a laptop (or a friend with a laptop)
* a text editor (or your favorite IDE)
* a "modern" browser (any version of Safari, Firefox, Chrome...even IE 8 or 9)

Actually, I encourage you to try the examples in a WebKit varient (Chrome and Safari) - mobile WebKit is the most widely deployed of the mobile browsers...though not a perfect proxy, the results you see on your desktop should largely match what you'd see on a modern mobile device.

One thing to keep in mind, by default, Chrome won't load local files so you will need to enable that if you plan on using Chrome during the labs. There is a command line flag to do so:

-allow-file-access-from-files

For more information, see the following:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40787

Back to our regularly scheduled programming... Sometime before the show (I wouldn't rely on conference wifi if I were you) point your favorite browser to my jQuery Mobile Workshop (note the word MOBILE in the title...I also have a jQuery workshop which, though excellent, isn't what we'll be doing at OSCON!) repo on GitHub:

https://github.com/ntschutta/jQuery_mobile_workshop

Clone this repo *anywhere* you'd like onto your laptop. Keep track of where you put it ;)

git clone https://github.com/ntschutta/jQuery_mobile_workshop.git

-or-

git clone git://github.com/ntschutta/jQuery_mobile_workshop.git

If you're not into the Git, you can always click on the "Zip" button on the main page of the repo or the "Downloads" tab to download the repo in your favorite compression method. Once you have the code extracted to your machine, take a moment to look around. Here's what you'll find:

* a PDF of the slides I'll use during the talk
* a readme
* an index.html with helpful links
* a set of lab folders

Note: there are separate folders for the finished labs so if you fall behind or just want to peek, feel free to do so at any time. That said, this workshop is a chance for you to play; copy and pasting code might not stretch your brain very far. One last thing, I strongly encourage you to pair up while working on the labs; the goal here is learning, there's no need to flagellate yourself repeatedly for several hours. Unless you're into that sort of thing, I'm not judging.

Allright, that should about wrap it up! I'm looking forward to seeing you at OSCON!