since learning about ready.mobi earlier this week, I spent the better part of my evenings checking my own sites for mobile compliance – with, aehm, mixed results. for my wordpress-blogs I’ve been using a combination of iWPhone for iPhone-specific rendering, and Wordpress Mobile Edition for all other mobile devices. since the latter only comes with [...]
just wanted to share this great resource with anybody developing for the mobile web. ready.mobi is by far the best tool for testing mobile web-pages I’ve come across… besides running 20 thorough compliance tests against your pages (MP-Doctype, Validation, Encoding, Image-/Page-size etc.), it also helps with fixing any issues by linking to the appropriate articles [...]
when Andy Pealting sold BuddyPress to Automattic (makers of WordPress) a month ago, buddypress.org went into maintenance-mode. now that Andy had a chance to bundle the code into a handy SVN-repository, the site is back up again, giving every developer the chance to toy with BuddyPress. But what’s BuddyPressm you might ask?
BuddyPress will transform a [...]
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back from holiday (sort of), I’ve been toying with the Facebook-API and built my first tiny little application today. it simply fetches Hugh MacLeod’s latest cartoon from gapingvoid.com and renders it on your profile.
if you want to install Gaping Void to your profile, the application-link is apps.facebook.com/gapingvoid – enojy!
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on July 6th-8th, Adobe is hosting iPhoneDevCamp in San Francisco, a BarCamp-styled gathering “to develop web-based applications and optimize web sites for iPhone. It is a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with attendance free to all. By the completion of the weekend event, a number of iPhone-ready web applications and web sites will be launched [...]
The University of Washington’s Emerging Technology group published a few key-facts and guidelines for web-application developers targetting the upcoming iPhone, including User-Agent-string, javascript-limitations and user-interface conventions. No specific info yet on the Javascript(?)-hooks Safari will offer to make phone-calls or control the integrated Google Maps-client, but a good list of things to keep in mind…
update: [...]
Attention: as of January 29th, I’ve decided to stop support for PHPTube! Due to recent changes in the YouTube uploading-process, uploading with PHPTube won’t work anymore! I recommend using the offical YouTube API, which can do uploads just fine! Since PHPTube is released under GPL, you’re of course free to adapt it!
You may want to try [...]
Google Code Blog announces the launch of the Google Developer Podcast (subscribe here), covering:
Interviews with Google engineers, discussing areas of their expertise
New features, applications, and APIs that matter to developers
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Projects that use our APIs and applications in interesting ways
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