McNelly SoftWorks, LLC

PhoneGap Essentials Published

Posted June 11, 2012

McNelly SoftWorks founder John M. Wargo today announced the public release of his third book: PhoneGap Essentials.

Using PhoneGap, mobile developers can write cross-platform mobile apps using standard HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS - and then deploy those apps to every leading mobile platform with little or no recoding. The open source PhoneGap platform has attracted immense interest amongst mobile developers, but its official documentation is sparse and incomplete.

Now, for the first time, there's a concise, practical, developer's guide to succeeding with PhoneGap in real-world mobile development. In the book, I thoroughly introduce the PhoneGap platform: what it is, what it does, and how it works. Next, the book guides developers through configuring their PhoneGap development environments, creating a complete mobile app, and then configuring and building it for leading mobile platforms Android, Bada, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian and Windows Phone.

Example applications included in the book highlight PhoneGap's APIs, demonstrating how to use mobile platform capabilities ranging from GPS and accelerometers to file systems and built-in applications. Readers also learn how to make the most of PhoneGap Build, PhoneGap's cloud-based packaging utility.

Information about the book can be found on the book’s web site at www.phonegapessentials.com and you can buy the book from amazon.com.

BlackBerry Development Fundamentals Published

Posted November 15, 2009

McNelly SoftWorks founder John M. Wargo today announced the public release of his second book, BlackBerry Development Fundamentals.

The BlackBerry smartphone is today’s #1 mobile platform for the enterprise and also a huge hit with consumers. Until now, it’s been difficult for programmers to find everything they need to begin developing new applications for BlackBerry devices. BlackBerry Development Fundamentals is the solution: the first single-source guide to all aspects of development for the BlackBerry platform. This book thoroughly reviews the BlackBerry’s unique capabilities and limitations, helps you optimize your upfront design choices, and covers native rich-client applications and Web-based mobile applications for both business and consumer environments. In addition, it is an excellent study guide for the BlackBerry Certified Application Developer exam (BCX-810).

Coverage includes:

• The “hows,” “whys,” and best practices of BlackBerry development
• Planning for and managing the BlackBerry platform’s restrictions
• Selecting the correct development platform for your BlackBerry applications
• Describing the different paths any application can take to get to the data it needs
• Explaining the capabilities provided by the BlackBerry Mobile Data System (MDS)
• Pushing application data to both enterprise and consumer BlackBerry devices using MDS, Web Signals, and the BlackBerry Push APIs
• Dealing with both the special capabilities and limitations of the BlackBerry browser
• Building, testing, and debugging BlackBerry browser applications
• Understanding the tools available to Java developers
• Using Research In Motion’s Java development tools to build, test, and debug BlackBerry Java applications
• Deploying BlackBerry Java applications

Information about the book can be found on the book's web site at www.bbdevfundamentals.com and you can buy the book from amazon.com.

What Now? The Essential Guide for New Soccer Referees published

Posted November 27, 2007

McNelly SoftWorks founder John M. Wargo today announced the public release of What Now? The Essential Guide for New Soccer Referees.

'What Now? The Essential Guide for New Soccer Referees' should be provided to every entry-level Soccer Referee. It is the ultimate resource book for anyone who is interested in becoming a Soccer Referee. The newly trained Referee who doesn't know what to do next after completing the first clinic can use the practical information in this book to put his or her Referee career on track. Focusing on 'how to be' a Referee rather than 'how to' Referee, this book ignores the rules and covers everything else. Get helpful tips for locating and attending your first clinic, joining local Referee Associations, working with leagues and assignors to get games, buying the right equipment, preparing for the first game and all of the things that have to happen on Game Day and beyond. It's the checklist guide to your first season as a Referee. Written by an experienced Referee and Referee Instructor, this book covers everything about being a Referee that would otherwise have to be learned the hard way.

Information about the book can be found on the book’s web site at www.newsoccerref.com and you can buy the book from amazon.com or directly from McNelly SoftWorks. For individuals interested in a flyer for the book, click here. For Referee organizations interested in a flyer for the book, click here.

The book was published by McNelly SoftWorks using an on-demand publishing system from Amazon called Booksurge (www.booksurge.com - now called CreateSpace). It was quite an interesting process - we had the idea for the book, crafted the manuscript then for less than $100US delivered the manuscript to Booksurge and it immediately became available on Amazon.com. When someone orders a copy of the book, the folks at Booksurge print up a copy, bind it, insert it in an envelope and send it to the customer.