Ruadhán O'Donoghue

March 24, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Just a quick note that there will be a short period of downtime today due to a planned server upgrade. Thanks for your patience and we'll have everything back to normal as soon as we can... Read More

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March 19, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Note: We are not currently issuing new keys for the ready.mobi API Ready.mobi is a well known page testing tool offered by dotMobi. When you supply a page URL to ready.mobi, it evaluates how well the page is likely to display on mobile devices by testing against the Mobile Web Best Practices, and dotMobi compliance rules... Read More

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March 19, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

We've just gone live with an new version of the ready.mobi API. (Full details and code samples here). So what's new in this version? The most notable feature in this version is the ability to post markup directly to the ready.mobi API without having to supply a publicly accessible URL to the service. This is the result of some early feedback on the API that during the development cycle pages often did not have a public URL, and so they could not be tested with ready.mobi... Read More

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March 18, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Our friends over at MyMobileWeb are running a free training course on 14th April 2009. We've carried content on the MyMobileWeb platform on mobiForge before here. Details of the course below: Do you want to develop compelling Mobile Web Applications for multiple devices and Contexts of Use? Do you want to exploit device capabilities at a maximum without compromising support on those less capable devices?... Read More

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December 1, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Our sister-site mobiThinking.com has just published an eBook on "The Best and Worst of the Mobile Web". In it there are examples of winners and sinners, those who do it right, and those not quite right, and why! So now might be a good time to fire up your mobile browser and let us know if you agree... Read More

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November 20, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Last week I posted that it was nomination time for the Open Web Awards by Mashable. Nominations have closed, and it's time to get voting. I've always wanted to say this, maybe wearing a tuxedo and under bright lights, but here goes: And the nominations in the category for best mobile application are... Read More

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November 14, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

The 2nd Annual Open Web Awards are currently accepting nominations in a wide range of categories, including, of course, the Mobile Application category. Now would be a great time to reward those responsible creating your favorite mobile app. But be quick, nominations are only open for another 2 days (until Sunday 16th 11:59 pm PST)... Read More

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October 21, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

We've just published part II of our OpenCellID feature. This time we look at making use of the OpenCellID positioning information introduced in the first part, and using it to display a device's location on an open source map, with a result similar to the Google Maps "MyLocation" feature. Thanks to Thomas Landspurg for this great contribution... Read More

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October 14, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

As mentioned in our first official mobiForge newsletter, as a tribute to dev.mobi, the site that mobiForge once was, we thought it would be fun to put together a time-line of notable moments in its two year life. We feel that dev.mobi, has done a great job of serving the mobile development community, and has very much helped to make the mobile Internet dream a reality. We're very proud of what we've achieved so far. So here's the longer version of the shorter version in the newsletter:... Read More

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October 3, 2008, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Well, is landing. We're just about ready to start beta testing on ready.mobi v2.2 aka API release. We've been planning this for a while, and a few of you have already had a sneak preview, but before we launch it fully, we invite any interested parties to try out the beta... Read More

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