James Pearce
Latest Articles by James Pearce
Andrea Trasatti has joined dotMobi
July 11, 2007, by James Pearce
I'm really pleased to tell you that Andrea Trasatti has joined dotMobi as Director of Device Initiatives.For those of you that don't know him, Andrea is an esteemed member of the mobile blogosphere and development community. He's an invited expert in the W3C's Mobile Web Initative, and has a career background in mobile content and analysis.Oh, and did I mention he was one of the founders of the WURFL project?... Read More
dev.mobi goes mobile (again)
May 7, 2007, by James Pearce
Hopefully you've all spotted the new mobiForge design. Just a few days later, we've dusted off a new mobile version too. Better a little late than never. Previously we used to redirect the user off to a whole different server for the mobile UI. This was a bad practice. What we've now done is create a module for our own CMS engine (we use Drupal) which recognises a mobile device's request on every page and sends a different theme accordingly... Read More
New look for dev.mobi
May 1, 2007, by James Pearce
If you're reading this, you should have noticed that the dev.mobi site looks a little different! We've given the theme a little bit of a lick of paint and restructured a few things. To be honest, we thought the old site was getting a little hard to navigate around, and the fixed-width theme didn't work so well for certain types of content... Read More
Ericsson MobileFaces provides dotMobi template
April 10, 2007, by James Pearce
The Ericsson Mobile JSF Kit provides a JSF library called "MobileFaces", which implements a reference solution for mobile-device-specific rendering for Java EE applications. MobileFaces can render different page content for different end devices based on just one JSF page. This highly reduces the amount of time needed for mobile application development... Read More
Our tools make it into the mobile toolbox
April 5, 2007, by James Pearce
Over at Read/WriteWeb there's an article on "The 85 Piece Mobile Search Tool Kit". We're pleased to see that a variety of dotMobi tools (including this site, http://ready.mobi, and our developer guide) have made it into the box! But there are also plenty of other resource in this list that you might find useful on your mobile development adventures. Enjoy!... Read More
Site outage
April 4, 2007, by James Pearce
There were a few hours of unscheduled downtime on dev.mobi this evening. Obviously, the fact that I've used the word 'unscheduled' suggests that we had to rather scramble to fix it. Our apologies for any inconvenience caused, and I believe we're now back at our usual level of service. We've got some exciting plans ahead for dev.mobi over the coming months - so stay tuned for a variety of improvements. (Not the least of which is a more frequent monitoring platform so we can catch things like this quicker!)... Read More
Building a mobile site has never been easier
March 27, 2007, by James Pearce
dotMobi wants to de-mystify the process of developing a mobile presence, and one of the ways we are trying to make this happen is through a partnership with Akmin. They've developed an extremely easy-to-use mobile site builder called MobiSiteGalore. Through the "Go Mobile" programme, this is something that our domain registrars offer to their customers... Read More
Mobile Monday comes to Dublin
March 22, 2007, by James Pearce
dotMobi is sponsoring the inaugural Mobile Monday Dublin meeting on the 2nd of April. If you're in the area and are seeking convivial mobilati company in a warm Dublin pub, please sign up :-) There's more details on the "where", the "when", and the "how to" on the MoMoDublin site. I hope to see some of you there... Read More
SXSW goes mobile
March 7, 2007, by James Pearce
Cool .mobi site alert! We don't blog enough about great .mobi sites that we come across, so it's probably about time we should. http://sxsw.mobi is one that seems totally worthy of coverage. (South by Southwest is a series of media, film, and music festivals) As the site itself says, SXSW.mobi is "South by Southwest's new adventure in mobile content delivery". Being a Brit, I'm hoping the BBC gives it some coverage too... Read More
Technical genius sought
January 16, 2007, by James Pearce
dotMobi is hiring! dotMobi is the first – and only – top-level internet domain dedicated to delivering the Internet to mobile devices and making the mobile web a success. We are a well-funded start-up, backed by 12 well-known industry investors. We are seeking smart, smart software people to join us in Dublin and help us with a number of high-visibility projects that we believe can become fundamental in promoting the growth of the mobile web... Read More
