I have been following the development of MotherApp since Ken Law, who used to work at Google, first started his own company late last year. I have also been helping Ken with a few platform specific problems. Ken has developed a technology that takes HTML code as input and generates native code as output. It […]

After writing about Symbian Foundation’s new EUserHL library on Friday, I learnt about Fleasome’s new FleaC library this morning via AllAboutSymbian.
It appears that Fleasome have beat Symbian Foundation to creating a comprehensive library to simplify Symbian development.
It provides …

Strings
Lists
String Lists
Arrays
DateTime
Timer
Binary file handling
Text file […]

I have previous written about the need for some wrapper classes or a framework to simplify Symbian development.
EUserHL Core Idiom Library has recently become available on the Symbian Developer Network. It provides a much simplified string management class, cleanup management helper templates and a helper macro that enables single-phase construction.
The documentation advises…
"Use of this […]

The Venture Capital Dispatch of the Wall street Journal has an article reporting on the recent Dow Jones’ Wireless Innovations Conference.
The issue they are reporting on is one of whether developers should build an application for one or two mobile platforms or should they support multiple and maybe all operating systems. If you read the […]

There’s an interesting free service at http://tinysrc.mobi/. It takes an image you specify and, depending on the URL you specify, resizes it to a specific size. It can be used in your mobile web pages or might even be used stand-alone to resize images for including in applications.
Tinysrc also caches images it is asked to […]

I have been hearing rumours that many retailers in the UK have run out of the Nokia 5800. This has been due to unexpected demand. It seems the low price point/low tariff requirement has been attractive for consumers.
I have been surprised by this. As I mentioned previously, the 5800 didn’t become my phone of choice […]

Microsoft have a virtual tech day on April 1st when you can learn more about the recently announced Windows Mobile Widgets….
"Windows Mobile Web and Widgets: Leveraging web technologies to build experiences for Windows Mobile Wednesday, April 1 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM GMT. The last few years have shown people the power of having a […]