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
Photo source: the Global Mobile Culture pool. Photo taken in Colmar, France.
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 week. I haven't…
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 people too, and…
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 bug by a…
Today I took my daughter, who this year started to play organized volleyball for the first time (and who has been a soccer player for a couple of years now), to the University of Texas vs. University of Oklahoma women's volleyball game… It…
For some time now I've been talking/evangelizing about the convergence of browser-based and rich applications. Recently I wrote about the W3C WICD Mobile 1.0, which if adopted by mobile platforms such as Java ME will be the culmination of this convergence. Dr. Paddy…
Read about Google's latest mobile related efforts/offerings – see The rebirth of cool. ceo
It seems the IE7 development team forgot about a very important product development concept: maintaining backward compatibility. A good example is my website. While not 100% valid XHTML or CSS, it works fine on IE6, Firefox, Safari, Opera… But it looks like crap…
Barbara Ballard, of Little Springs Design, has put together the User Experience Bootcamp — get the flier (PDF format). This two-day session is open to startup companies less than two years old, with a focus on mobile devices, software, or services, regardless of…