Ruadhán O'Donoghue

December 3, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Well we all knew it was possible: location by cell information. It's just that it hasn't really turned up in that many mainstream mobile applications. So hats off to Google with Maps for Mobile 2.0. They've managed to turn an already great application into quite simply one of the best, must-have free mobile applications available... Read More

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November 23, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

A special feature announcement for mobiForge: Cameron Moll has kindly permitted dev.mobi to publish one of the chapters from his recent book - Mobile Web Design . Over the coming weeks we will serialise the chapter "Beyond simple XHTML pages". This top-quality content is not to be missed! Mobile Web Design has been an instant success, selling 1000 copies in the first week of publication, and it has been extremely well received by the industry. Chapter excerpts can be found here... Read More

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November 22, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Introducing the Dotmobi Virtual Developer Lab. DotMobi has teamed up with MobileComplete to bring the Virtual Development Lab to ALL mobiForge users. Our open-ended promotion is simple: as a registered mobiForge user, all you have to do is follow our promotion link, register with our partner, MobileComplete, and you get 5 hours free live remote access to hundereds of devices. This is not emulation - this is the real thing!... Read More

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November 8, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Dotmobi has teamed up with MobileComplete to bring you the DotMobi Virtual Developer Lab. Now you can test on REAL devices, including the iPhone, for free!The Virtual Developer Lab, powered by DeviceAnywhere provides remote access to 100s of REAL devices, on live networks from around the world, without the financial burden of owning real devices or signing up to operator contracts... Read More

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October 23, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Last weekend a noteworthy milestone was reached by dev.mobi. Over the weekend we broke through 5000 registered users! We're delighted with this great indication of interest and support from the developer community. So thanks indeed for helping us to get this far, and be sure to come back soon - we've got some exciting things lined up for dev.mobi users in the near future that you won't want to miss... Read More

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September 7, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

A short time ago while playing around with markup validators I encountered an interesting problem. This problem has also been mentioned on the wmlprogramming list, but it's worthy of a bit more explanation. I received a validation error, and at first I thought the cause was bad XHTML markup. As I investigated however, I realised that every document with a particular DOCTYPE was encountering the same problem... Read More

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August 28, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

For those who haven't seen it yet, we've gone live with ready.mobi v2.0 (We were going to call v1.1, but the new features are so cool we figured it was worth bumping up to 2.0). Version 2.0 rocks. New features include... Read More

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August 21, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Mobile AJAX is a term that's hot right now in the industry - we are seeing it mentioned more and more every day. This article will give an overview AJAX from a mobile web point of view. But before we talk about mobile AJAX in particular, we should say a little about what AJAX means... Read More

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July 9, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

We've been very busy working on this one, and we can finally unveil Ready.mobi v1.1. Our testing tool has had a major upgrade in version 1.1: no more page-by-page testing! You can now test a whole site with a click of a button. Want to get your hands on this? Then read on... Read More

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April 13, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue

Pop-up windows are not supported on many mobile devices, and using them can have unpredicatable results. This test checks that you are not using pop up windows in your markup... Read More

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