Mobile

I had some down time which allowed me to explore an alternative mobile development strategy which is to use a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (or MEAP, a technical term coined by Gartner) to build cross-mobile device applications.  Back in 2009, Gartner made one of their famous quotes that seem to get a lot of airplay […]

Last week I joined Enlighten (now Perficient Digital) senior interaction designer Krysta Stone at the 2011 Internet User Experience Conference here in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was great to see so many familiar faces from the local User Experience community, as well as meet newcomers, and, in some cases, finally put a face with a […]

I wanted to share my experience with the new features of Mobile Entrée and how to leverage your existing Microsoft Business Intelligence investments as a starting point to building out the mobile platform. Mike Burger posted earlier regarding Mobile Entrée (found here). He stated the fact that it can integrate with SharePoint and render reports […]

There is no denying that mobility is currently a hot topic. Staggering forecasts by various analysts have made capitalizing on the mobile applications market a top priority for many organizations’ CIOs and CTOs. However, before diving headfirst into mobility projects, it is important to consider various factors in order to define a clear strategy that […]

IBM released the new Portal Mobile Experience theme a couple of weeks ago (see Jonathan Distad’s post).  I decided to install this new theme to see what a Portal Mobile Experience is like.   In the first screen shot, you see the standard Portal Administration page from a desktop browser. There is a navigator on the […]

The much heralded Amazon Android-based tablet, the Kindle Fire, has now been released and much was made in its pre-release state on how it was going to be the next iPad killer, titles previously held by the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.  Now that the device has seen the light of day, is […]

IBM just released the Mobile Portal Experience code to the Greenhouse product catalog. This is great because as IBM puts it, “mobile is exploding” and nearly everyone wants to extend their portals to the mobile devices. This release supports the major players supporting Webkit. Here is a snippet from the product description: The Portal Mobile […]

I attended Barcamp Tampa Bay 2011 this past Saturday. Among many excellent sessions, two on user experience and design generated great interest. Justin Davis presented “5 User Experience Basics Everyone Should Know” to an overflowing room: People expect online interactions to follow social rules. Successful interactions provide appropriate feedback and engagement with a appropriately conversational tone.  (A […]

Chris Woodruff Yammered about a podcast where they debate the merits and intricacies of mobile web vs native app development.  The guest speaker is Chris Love who seems to know a thing or two about mobile, html5, web development etc.  It’s worth a listen. About This Episode In this episode, Keith and Woody sit down […]

Many of us are familiar with our employer not supporting work functions such as email on our personally owned smart phones. I purchased my first smart phone, a Palm device, in 2005. It wasn’t until 2009 that I worked for a company that offered to open up email security to be enabled on my personally […]

I recently blogged about new mobile features in the Dojo toolkit, so I thought I would give equal time to JQuery.  JQuery Mobile has recently release Beta 2 of the toolkit and it includes lots of great features. The mobile toolkit has various levels of support for a variety of devices.  JQuery maintains an A-B-C […]

IBM DeveloperWorks recently published an article by Joe Lennon titled Get started with Dojo Mobile 1.7, in which he does a good job of explaining the new mobile features in Dojo 1.7.   Using Dojo is a great way to develop once for multiple browser support;  the Mobile features extend this to iOS, Android and […]