Category Archives: mobile

Viva La Sloth!

So for a little while I’ve been giving this talk on the current state of mobile web app development and why Ajax (as we know it) isn’t gonna be the next big thing on phones. Last week, to my tremendous embarrassment, I was asked to give a summarized version of the same talk in front [...]

“Mobile Ajax” Slides

Here are the slides from my talk on Mobile Ajax development. I’ve got a longer-ish blog post in the works about getting a working emulation environment set up, but it’s taking much longer than I’d anticipated to try to track down some of these things (if you know anyone at SonyErickson or Obigo, drop me [...]

Reason #39 That Nothing Gets Written For Phones (Yet)

I’ve just spent the last 4 hours wrangling Nokia’s S60 and Microsoft’s WinCE…erm…PocketPC…uh…Windows Mobile emulators into compliance. What have I learned? That not only do the carriers hate your guts, so do their tool vendors.