Links from 2008

"A free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other sites with an embeddable player.

Handy intro.

The easiest way to create and distribute mobile applications for free

What would I do if my business allowed me to do in a downturn? Keep ahead of the curve. Get myself to any and every relevant show, event and conference, meeting and networking opportunity. Get up to speed with what’s coming down the pipe from all of the technologies. Understand their priorities and where they think we will be in the coming months and years.

Driven by iTunes and the iPod, Gen Y has a voracious appetite for digital music, ring tones and all things mobile.

This tutorial will take you through all the necessary steps for setting up Django with a persistent PostgreSQL database on AWS. I will be assuming no prior knowledge of AWS,

Snuck that one out. Gears is only available for IE on Mobile, which kind of sucks.

Beep beep.

This document gives general guidelines for web developers and content authors who are searching for directions to help create sites for the mobile web.

"Support for XHTML-MP, i-mode and 3G devices" but £299 plus VAT. Ouch.

An Introduction to the mobile context and mobile social software, which explores the topics of the mobile context and its role on what I referred to as People-centric mobile computing.

It's like the way advertising ended up all over the web - it seemed a pain-free option and a way to get things paid for. But if we want to provide people with all this information all over the city do we want to do it the same way?

One of the biggest problems in the UK, and I would say Ireland as well, is that digital or ‘new media’ agencies only ever decide to incorporate new Web apps or social networks into their thinking when they bubble up from Silicon Valley or elsewhere. Few ever think to jump in and create a few apps themselves.

As of November 2007 there were 3.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions around the world. At 6.6 billion people globally, yes, there is a mobile phone subscription for half of the planet. But that is not really the whole story. So lets delve deeper into these numbers.

Evaluates mobile-readiness using industry best practices & standards.

"Google claims that every phone manufacturer will offer full web browsers within a year, hailing the end of mobile-specific browsers." Aside from browsers on the billions of handsets that've been sold worldwide to date.

Handy for page flip stuff, but doesn't seem to send the correct user agent.

URI Schemes and descriptions.

Djangobile is a django extension for render web pages according to device capabilities. Therefore djangobile offers an implementation for W3C Working Draft IDEAL (Interface DEscription Authoring Language).

“The first music video ever shot with a 360 degree panoramic lens”.

Disagree with most of this but an interesting perspective. "Most LBS applications are a black hole of wasted time, effort, money, and opportunity."

Thanks to the wonderful credit crunch, many of you are about to become freelancers (ie fired). I have freelanced before (and am likely to be doing so again) so allow me to enlighten you as to what to expect.

People with disabilities (using desktop or laptop computers) and people without disabilities who are using mobile devices have similar interaction limitations and they experience similar barriers when interacting with Web sites. There is also significant overlap between the design solutions for both.

Transcription of Dan Cederholm's talk at An Event Apart. Some good ideas in here.

Screenshots from the Android SDK.

The beta SDK that we're releasing today is the first big step on the SDK's road to compatibility with 1.0. Since this is a beta release, applications developed with it may not quite be compatible with devices running the final Android 1.0. However, the APIs are now pretty stable and we don't expect any major changes.

One of the more interesting things I’ve found is what is happening in the bottom 1.5 to .5% of the browsers that are hitting our sites. I’m starting to see devices appear en masse which are not PC’s.

Hard to find Luke Vibert tracks.

An experimental web development and design studio.

Customer feedback app, as used on blip.fm.

Free beginner's Python book.

Some rough rules of thumb to use when you’re asked to work on HTML email. Rule 1: Run. Immediately. Don’t pack. Don’t think. Just GO!

Great intro to Fire Eagle from Coates.

"A simple middleware and associated decorator that will add a ".mobile" attribute to your request objects, which, if True, means the requester is coming to you from a mobile phone (cellphone), PDA, or other device that should be considered small screened, or have an underpowered browser, such as games consoles."

Less useful than the dev.mobi list.

A config file that contains the correct UA strings for a few common phones and the W3C Default Delivery Context. This will save you the trouble of finding the correct strings yourself.

The BitNami DjangoStack is an installer that greatly simplifies the installation of Django and its runtime dependencies. It includes ready-to-run versions of Python, Django, MySQL and Apache. DjangoStack is distributed for free under the Apache 2.0 license.