The Breaking Development Podcast

In todays podcast, Jim talks to Jeremy Keith about the Open Web, IndieWebCamp, and attempts to get to the bottom of what exactly is a "web app."

In todays podcast, Jim discusses the Ubuntu Touch Developer preview with Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon. We discuss the project goals as well as an overview of how to develop for Ubuntu Touch, with an emphasis on the HTML5 aspects of Ubuntu Touch app development.

Developing for the mobile web is a wild west of exploring technique, quickly adopting browser standards, dealing with a legacy browser and tackling brand new browsers constantly. It's already a huge challenge to do it right, but still we're not taking it seriously enough. We're losing the battle and slowly losing the war. In this talk Paul will outline the current state of the mobile web as an application platform and what needs to happen to recover the platform we've invested our time and passion into.

Jim discusses the difficulties in building web apps with Mike Mahemoff. We discuss some of the fundamental issues that pushed Player FM to release a native app over a web app as well as reiterate Paul Irish's point that the mobile web is in trouble. We spend some time discussing the state of the web in the shadow of both Google I/O and Apple's WWDC Keynote. Finally we discuss the issues around web app discoverability.

In this podcast, Jim and Adi discuss mobile security. There is more to it than just SSL, and SSL still leaves you vulnerable. We discuss mobile security from both a web and native perspective and talk about topics like HTTP Request Hijacking, HTTP Strict Transport Security, Certificate Pinning and more.