Design & Development
SMS Messaging in Android
March 12, 2009, by weimenglee
It would be safe to say that nearly every mobile phone sold in the past decade has SMS messaging capabilities. In fact, SMS messaging is one great killer application for the mobile phone and it has created a steady revenue stream for mobile operators. Understanding how to use SMS messaging in your application can provide you with many ideas to create the next killer application... Read More
Handy shortcuts to using Ready.mobi
I love Firefox. In fact I sometimes wonder how anyone ever did any web development or design without Firefox and its many great extensions. Well I've got 3 handy add-ons/tips for you that will make designing for mobile that much easier by enabling you to launch ready.mobi in seconds... Read More
Getting Started with Android Development
February 19, 2009, by weimenglee
Unless you have been hiding in the caves for the past couple of months, by now you must have heard of the mobile platform from Google that everyone is talking about. Yes, that's right, I am talking about Android. Android is an open source mobile operating system that is based on the Linux kernel. Using Android, device manufacturers can customize the OS to suit their particular hardware design, thereby allowing them to innovate without limitations... Read More
A Simple Mobile Site with CodeIgniter
January 26, 2009, by atrasatti
In the words of the developers "CodeIgniter is an Application Development Framework - a toolkit - for people who build web sites using PHP. Its goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could if you were writing code from scratch, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries. CodeIgniter lets you creatively focus on your project by minimizing the amount of code needed for a given task."While CodeIgniter can be considered a small framework compared to competitors such as Zend Framework, it comes with all the basic libraries that we are all using in every single project we develop... Read More
Drupal 5 – Progressive downloads in “private” mode
January 20, 2009, by daniel.hunt
Just a quick one to let anyone using Drupal know that it *is* possible to serve files using HTTP_RANGE! After a little bit of digging around, Andrea and I found this patch file (attached to this post), which allows Drupal 5 to serve files to range-supporting clients. Why bother with this post? Well, the iPhone doesn't support file-downloading, nor does it support multimedia file-streaming, but it does support progressive download via http!... Read More
