Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Web & mobile developer & consultant
Editor & contributor at mobiForge
Author of "AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages"
Runs westerntechnological.ie
Latest Articles by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Device Detection in the Cloud: DeviceAtlas Personal
June 19, 2010, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
In this article we offer full tutorial on how to use the preview release of the service. So what is DA Personal? The purpose of DeviceAtlas Personal is to make device detection even easier. The main difference between DA Personal and DeviceAtlas, is that Personal is a Web service. It works as follows: a user visits your Web site on his mobile device. You then forward the User-Agent HTTP request header to the DA Personal service, and the response you receive will contain information about the user's device. That's it!... Read More
Nexus One: Where is Android at?
January 5, 2010, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
With the announcement of the new GooglePhone, which promises to be the best Android device yet and by all early reports at least comparable with the iPhone 3GS, it seems appropriate to stop to take a look around to see where Android is at. We start with the breakdown of Android Platform distribution, based on access to the Android Market. Android versions (Source: http://developer.android.com)... Read More
Free iPhone Programming PDF
October 16, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Hopefully you've been enjoying our series of iPhone articles over previous weeks.The topics recently covered in this series have looked at both developing native apps with Xcode, and developing webapps with Dashcode. Xcode and Dashcode are two IDEs supplied with the iPhone SDK. Now you can get a PDF download that covers both of these approaches to programming for iPhone in one handy document. The content has been arranged (by Wei-Meng Lee) into two practical 'Labs', and is ideal if you are just starting out and want a chance to dip your toe into both approaches. And did I mention it's FREE...?... Read More
Post Markup Directly to mobiReady.com
August 28, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
If you missed our newsletter yesterday you are probably not aware of a small announcement we made in it. We've pushed out a few updates to mobiReady.com, our mobile-readiness page testing tool. The most significant change is that you can now post markup directly to the service, instead of posting a URL for the service to visit and test... Read More
Fennec Delivers!
May 21, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
We've all been eagerly anticipating the entry of the Fennec (Firefox Mobile to the uninitiated) into the mobile browser space. A couple of days ago we were given our first taste of the future with Fennec when a new alpha version was released for Windows Mobile devices. So how does it stand up? Well, initial testing seems to indicate that Fennec will certainly be a contender. The Fennec team have packed in support for a wide array of technologies... Read More
AutoTrader.mobi is 1Mth page tested by mobiReady
May 20, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
We're happy to announce a great milestone today: autotrader.mobi was the 1 millionth page that was tested by our mobiReady testing tool! We're super happy about this, and we're delighted to see some well known brands such as AutoTrader making use of our free testing tool. Check out their results here... Read More
Mobile Web Benchmarks: What can you do?
May 13, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Yesterday, Gomez and dotMobi published a second set of mobile Web benchmarks. The metrics are taken across three key industries: banking, airlines, and search, each of which represents an exciting and important slice of the mobile Web. I don't want to analyse the results here (the mobile Web is getting slower apparently!) - instead, I'll take a brief look at what these benchmarks might mean for you as a developer... Read More
PHP & Apache: the Tools of the Mobile Web
May 7, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
We recently ran a survey on mobiForge with a view to getting a better understanding of the tools and work habits of mobile web developers using our services. A number of you had expressed an interest in seeing the outcome of the survey, so we've compiled the results and created some graphs for your viewing pleasure... Read More
Getting Started with iPhone Development
April 15, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Developers new to the Mac platform, or new to mobile, might find getting started with iPhone development a little tricky at first. In this article we take a look at the tools involved and go through the main steps in getting your first "Hello World!" iPhone app off the ground... Read More
Calling all ASP.NET developers!
March 24, 2009, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Calling all ASP.NET developers! Supercharge your ASP.NET applications by giving them the all the device information they will ever need. With very simple configuration, the new ASP.NET 2.0 module for DeviceAtlas will integrate with existing mobile controls adding the benefit of fresh device data on over 4500 mobile devices from DeviceAtlas... Read More
