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Welcome to About Mobility. My name is C. Enrique Ortiz and this is my blog where I cover mobile computing in general - my views on mobility, software, technologies & products, and related areas; with the occasional tangent into other unrelated thoughts. I try to blog at least once per week, if time permits.
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Monthly Archives: October 2006
The Mobility Landscape is picking up
Yes, the mobility landscape is picking up… Special interests groups are picking up — for example, Mobile Monday is spreading like wildfire, so other mobility related groups The mobility related job market is getting better More mobility conferences – see … Continue reading
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The key to becoming a successful evangelist
All successful technologists and evangelists (everyone and anyone working on technology is an evangelist on one level or another) have one thing in common – passion for what they do… This passion is what fuels excitement, and is what makes … Continue reading
Posted in Thoughts
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Mont Tremblant – here I come!
…neat, we are set for our winter ski vacation… Mont Tremblant… very nice… our first trip to Canada… I'm looking forward to it… ceo P.S. Update Jun 26 ’08 – removed Mont Tremblant photo, which I linked to directly to … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
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Widsets not working for me
Widsets is not functioning well for me. The app starts OK, but it tries to connect, and says connecting, and connecting, and connecting, forever, with its little message bubble moving up and down, in and out of the screen in … Continue reading
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dzone – fresh links for developers
I just learned via Michael Yuan's blog about dzone, a Digg-like website for developers. Interesting… ceo
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IE7 and Blojsom – my weblog is back in business
Thanks to Rostislav Hristov, my weblog is now working OK under IE7! For those using Blojsom and the Asual theme, the fix is to add the following CSS to the HEAD section: <!–[if IE 7]> <style type=”text/css” media=”screen”> #content { … Continue reading
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Service-Oriented Architecture and Java ME
Take ubiquitous connectivity, a common transport – HTTP, a data representation standard – XML and Java ME, roll it all together and we have Web Services. Always with us and always on. Read Eric Giguere's introduction, Service-Oriented Architecture and Java … Continue reading
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If you are a guy, and use a cellphone…
…you need to know that Men who use mobile phones face increased risk of infertility …
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Next Mobile Monday Austin event, an evening with Sun Microsystems, November 13th
Join us at our next Mobile Monday Austin event, an evening with Sun Microsystems. It is going to be a very good event. We are having Stuart Marks from Sun who will cover Java ME and related initiatives and tools. … Continue reading
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J2ME — looking for its place in the enterprise
Read SearchMobileComputing's Mobile platforms: J2ME — looking for its place in the enterprise, on which I was quoted… Also, read Ander's viewpoint on the same topic. ceo
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Java ME: De-fragmentation Technical Overview and Design Guidelines
Check out Sun's Java ME: De-fragmentation Technical Overview and Design Guidelines Index. The guidelines cover areas including the platform, screen, input, memory, multimedia, connectivity and other design guidelines… ceo
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Death of the landline
Photo source: the Global Mobile Culture pool. Photo taken in Colmar, France.
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Carnival of the Mobilists #50
This week's Carnival of the Mobilists goes back home, to MobHappy. Great reading as usual. Wow, it's carnival #50 – it has been a year since the carnival's first edition – awesome! And it is getting better and better each … Continue reading
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Infrastructure and capacity planning
When you hear the word “(information) infrastructure”… what comes to mind? Your servers, routers and switches, and networks? What about software and dependencies to other applications, and related Service Level Agreements (SLAs)? It is all of that. Plus it is … Continue reading
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A day with a non-technical dev manager
There is a development team… and there is the team's development manager. And the team works on their S/W product, and the manager manages the team. A bug is found, a synchronization problem it is, threads are deadlocking, a synchronization … Continue reading
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