PHP freelancer, web developer, mobile web enthusiast

I will take part in a hot event that will take place in San Francisco on November 6, 2006. The “mobile2.0 conference” is a one-day event organized and hosted by Daniel Appelquist (Mobile Monday London), Mike Rowehl (Mobile Monday Silicon Valley) and Gregory Gorman (The Open Group).I actually planned to be in San Francisco from the middle of November, but re-scheduled because of this event. Michael(tm) Smith form Opera will also be there – I met him at this year’s Xtech conference in Amsterdam where I presented the CarCulatr – our first mobile AJAX web application based on the Opera Platform. Read the rest of this entry »

Jeff Barr of Amazon has just finished his talk about all the APIs and web services of Amazon and Alexa. That means d.construct 2006 has officially started.

For those who saw Jeff’s presentations at e.g. Xtech earlier this year, there was not much new stuff to be heard, except maybe the EC2 service of Amazon. The EC2 is sort of a root server providing on demand offered by Amazon for 0.20 $ per hour. This would mean you pay about 144 USD per month for a decent root server. Not really cheap, but since the service works on a on-demand basis and you only have to pay when you are actually using the server it might be an interesting alternative to renting a real server.

The service is in beta testing still and Jeff mentioned that it might be hard to get in right now, but he promised the situation will improve soon. Maybe we’ll give it a try.

d.Construct 2006 is a one-day web conference in Brighton, England, on the 8th of September. It is organized by the nice guys from Clearleft, namely Jeremy Keith, Andy Budd and Richard Rutter.

To quote from the website, d.Construct “… discusses how new technology is transforming the web from a document delivery system into an application platform.” So it seems we’re going to be at the right place – also for (mobile) web applications!

We are looking forward to seeing many people from the atmedia event this year and we hope to get in touch with many new people in the mobile area as well.

Panel: Cameron Adams, Peter-Paul Koch (PPK), Stuart Langridge, Dan Webb, and Simon Willison – JavaScript libraries: friend or foe?
This JavaScript experts panel discussed some advantages and drawbacks in the field of JavaScript libraries, such as the Dojo toolkit or the Yahoo User Interface Library. These libraries offer a common programming interface for JavaScript and especially AJAX, to overcome cross-browser issues and can thus greatly increase productivity. One of the main problems pointed out by PPK was the size of these libraries, which can vary widely from 5kB to more than 100kB – a problem that is especially important on mobile devices.
The panel ended with a collection of things that make libraries desirable. Amongst those were: Read the rest of this entry »

I was in London from June 15th to 16th to attend the @media conference 2006. @media basically is a web design conference (”Europe’s foremost professional web design conference”), so most of the talks and panels were less technical and focussed mainly on design issues. However, some speakers also talked about things like DOM scripting or bug fixing, so there was some technological input as well.

Since we try to keep the focus on (mobile) devices here, let’s look at the things that were said at @media that are relevant to us: Read the rest of this entry »