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Code Complete, Second Edition

Back in the early and mid 1990s, when I was a young developer, Steve McConnell published some great books: Rapid Development, and Code Complete, both excellent references on writing good, solid code and best practices — these were and still are books that…

Should SLAs be extended to Web 2.0?

One of my recent posts was about a Poll I am doing on my website… Anyhow, the poll is done via an external provider – it is pretty neat, I like it very much, but when the service goes down, as it did…

W3C Workshop on the Ubiquitous Web

Call for Participation… From the W3C website: “The Ubiquitous Web “takes advantage of the diversity of networked devices,” said Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon). Attendees will examine technologies and help W3C make choices for standardization to realize the vision of distributed applications that adapt to…

Poll: Mobile AJAX vs. Java ME?

This is the first in a series of polls about mobility applications… Poll: Mobile AJAX vs. Java ME Some people believe that Mobile AJAX will rule mobile application development, and will make technologies such as Java ME obsolete. Others believe both technologies are…

R U in the Mobility Weblog Film Loop?

After reading about Guy's loop, it occured to me to have my own Film Loop, about the people who read this Mobility blog… So I have created The Mobility Weblog Film Loop — join the loop and add a photo of yourself with…

Exploring New Horizons…

AP Photo by John Raoux NASA's Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission has begun… Neat. The New Horizons probe was launched on top of an Atlas V rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. “A decade-long voyage to visit the planet…

Carnival of the Mobilists @ Golden Swamp

This week's Carnival is at Golden Swamp! The Carnival of the Mobilists is about the best submitted writing on wireless and mobility. The Carnival is hosted at a different mobility website every week. If you’re a blogger, you might want to enter in…

How To Do What You Love

How To Do What You Love, by Paul Graham, is a must read, a great essay. You are so right Paul! It is good to be reminded about what it is all really about. A couple of citations from Paul's essay: “The test…

Java ME Lightweight Clients Are Coming

It seems that what I had foreseen, Java ME Lightweight Clients, will finally happen, at least the rendering part of it – neat. Recently I posted a blog entry about AJAX and mobile development, Will AJAX Save The Day (for Mobile Apps Development)?,…

Jan 2006 Mobile Monday Austin — Happy Hour with AWA

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, Holidays and 2006 New Years Celebration… Let's begin the Year 2006 by getting all together for some drinks and talk about wireless and mobility! This month's Mobile Monday Austin event is in partnership with the Austin…