As much as I usually like to write on my blog about things I’ve worked out, or commentary on things I think are interesting, this time I’m posting something quite different. In short – I’m pretty stuck, and I’m starting to run myself in circles trying to work this out. I’m fairly certain there is going to be Euclidean math involved, but so far I haven’t made the progress I would normally like to. Read the rest of this entry »
posted on the August 31st, 2010 2 Comments »
It was almost a year ago now that I wrote a post comparing a few options in the area of cross platform mobile development. Over that year, a few new players have arrived on the scene (Sencha Touch comes to mind) but by in large nothing earth shattering has happened in the tools space.
In that same time for me, however, I have ventured deeper into cross-platform development world and probably have a slightly different perspective on things than I had back then.
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posted on the August 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Last week I started a 5 day exercise to re-evaluate the various frameworks that are at the disposal of developers for the purpose of iPhone and Android cross platform mobile development. This time, the focus was on what the various frameworks had to offer if I was to build a mapping application for multiple different mobile platforms.
This is part 1 of the wrap up from that week – a comparison of the native bridges for cross platform iPhone and Android web app development.
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posted on the May 18th, 2010 4 Comments »
Well, I’m now officially out of the corporate world and Sidelab has been in business for a week now 
. On the cards for this week are 5 days of non-chargeable work (eek) that I have allotted to determine whether a mobile mapping application can be implemented using some of the iPhone and Android mobile development toolkits that are currently available (PhoneGap, AppCelerator, RhoMobile, etc). Targeted platforms at this stage are iPhone and Android only.
To add an extra layer of complexity I will be doing this using the deCarta Mapping Platform rather than Google Maps, as I’ve had some experience with the deCarta platform in the past and found it to be technically very good.
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posted on the May 10th, 2010 2 Comments »
It’s been a while since I posted my comparison of the various iPhone and Android Web Application Frameworks, and quite a few things have changed since that time. Nothing completely disruptive or game changing, but things are definitely moving along.
The latest piece of news that I just received an email about is Appcelerator’s 1.0 release of its Titanium platform, which is obviously a bit of a milestone for the guys over there at Appcelerator.
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posted on the March 16th, 2010 No Comments »
OK. My head is about to explode – which isn’t that uncommon when you are as distractable as I am. The reason for my head about to explode this time is that I have now discovered a fourth web technologies based (html, css, javascript) framework for developing iPhone (and Android usually) applications. To be frank, I am struggling for time to do a “deep-dive” into each of these frameworks so would appreciate hearing some opinions about what to use.
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posted on the September 10th, 2009 31 Comments »
