I get a lot of questions about how the licensing model for RhoElements works.

It has been a busy few weeks since my post supporting a few regional developer events as well as promoting this community (which by the way, I am proud to say we are very close to hitting the 1000 user mark). One of the areas I have been spending time on is getting familiar with the Rhodes platform.

I am blogging to you from our AppForum in Barcelona Spain, where we have been getting some really great feedback on RhoElements. There is a lot of interest in HTML5 and the ability to harness the power of the device capabilities all from within HTML and Javascript. There seems to be a lot of traditional .Net coders that are just beginning or exploring options to develop using HTML.

Before we get into saving the scan data, let's first load the breakout session data into a drop down so the user can select the presentation that they will be scanning attendees for.

Let's open up the index.html file and replace our placeholder inside the selector div section with a
code block:

So far we have a basic HTML file (our app) that has placeholders for content and simple javascript functions for enabling the scanner and handling the decode event. In this part of the series, we will discuss WebSQL storage and incorporate that into our application. Before we start modifying our HTML, let's discuss how the database will be laid out.

We will be creating just one table with the following fields:

So most of us probably still live very much in an email world. You may love facebook, twitter, etc to communicate with your friends and family, but from a business point of view email is still king. So here are some tips for getting the most out of Launchpad right from within your email client. Of course we would love you to log into Launchpad everyday, but you can still do quite a bit without even having to open up a browser.

So you have registered for a Launchpad account, now what you say? The next thing you should do is follow the spaces you are interested in. Before we get into that, all content in Launchpad is centered around the concept of a Space. Within each space, there are three types of content Blogs, Documents and Dicsussion. There are also sub-spaces within a space.

There is definitely a lot of great information in Launchpad. It spans across the 3 main types of content in the system Blogs, Discussions and Documents. Here are some really quick ways to browse through the content to learn something new each day:

If you read the post, you already know that you configure RhoElements to launch into an application by changing the parameter in the Config.XML. This location is either on the local file system (ex: file://RhoApps/index.html) or it could be on a remote web server (ex: http://192.168.1.65/index.html).