Thoughts on systems, engineering, AI, technology and life.
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 today, it is a major issue: It is an interesting dilemma. So … Read more
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 users' needs, device capabilities and environmental conditions. Position papers are due 10 … Read more
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 complimentary. What is your opinion? Go to the Mobility Website and add … Read more
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 comments. This should be a fun exercise, a fun way to see … Read more
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 Pluto and then beyond” The ETA to Pluto is around July 2015.
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 the future – or even offer to host it one week soon. … Read more
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 of whether people love what they do is whether they'd do it … Read more
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)?, where I wrote the following paragraph: “That said… instead of AJAX replacing … Read more
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 Wireless Alliance (AWA). AWA is sponsoring the Wireless Happy Hour. Admission is … Read more
From the W3C website: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0. The draft describes how to produce Web content and Web sites intended for delivery to mobile and small-screen devices. Written for all participants in the mobile value chain, the document is … Read more