Design & Development
How to monetize your mobile site: PayPal Mobile Checkout
Following on in the series of articles on how to monetize your mobile site we're turning our attention to PayPal and their recently released platform for the mobile web: PayPal Mobile Checkout.PayPal Mobile Checkout is available now... Read More
User Tracking, Sessions and Cookies
July 17, 2007, by atrasatti
User tracking is a very important feature for any web site whether it's for desktop computers, mobile devices, set-top boxes or anything else. When a user visits your site you want to know how long his visit lasted, which contents he visited, what navigation path was followed and so on. This is functionality we have become used to having in most, if not all the web sites. Tracking can be used for many different reasons - what we are going to cover here is focused on navigation sessions... Read More
Certification materials
July 6, 2007, by admin
There is a zip file attached to this page that contains a set of resources that may be used ONLY by certified developers on their web sites. This is a set of images and PDF files that can be used to market the fact that you are a certified dotMobi developer... Read More
Sample dotMobi Certification exam questions
June 6, 2007, by admin
UPDATE: dotMobi certification course is no longer runningAfter receiving a number of requests from people to post a sample of the exam for the dotMobi Web Developer Certification course, we've finally bowed to public pressure. The questions listed below are not ones that you will find in the real exam, but they are representative of the kinds of things you will be asked and the difficulty level you can expect... Read More
Lightweight Device-Detection in PHP
June 1, 2007, by ronan
One problem that keeps cropping up when developing mobile content is how to differentiate between mobile devices and desktop browsers. We need to be able to do this before we can think about content adaptation. The "proper" way to do this is to use a full device detection database such as DeviceAtlas (see our tutorial here) but the following method may be sufficient to get you started... Read More
