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Mobile Musings from July

2010-07-14, Chariot Solutions

July seems to have been a busy month on many fronts in the world of mobile, then again, isn't every month? Some hardware news that tickled my fancy: The continued hubbub around the Dell Streak: you can now sign up for an 'exclusive' 24 hour pre-sales period. It was also spotted on engadet running Android 2.1, was slated for a 'July end' releas; but wait... It is currently on the Dell site for sale "soon". 2 BlackBerry bought the "BlackPad" domain, and it is rumored to be a 9.7 inch tablet with a November 'introduction'. BlackBerry also scheduled a August 3rd event which is supposedly to introduce a new blackBerry slider running OS6 ( 3 Speaking of BlackBerry OS6, some media for your perusing pleasure: BlackBerry OS6 Demo BlackBerry OS6 sneak peak BlackBerry OS6 screenshots HP applied for a "PALMPAD" trademark which would cover "Computers, computer hardware, computer software, computer peripherals, portable computers, handheld and mobile computers, PDAs, electronic notepads, mobile digital electronic devices", not sure what else needs to be said really :) 5 6 In software news my favorite announcement came from the Symbian who are going to be partnering with PhoneGap. This will presumably mean effortless support [...Read More...]

Spring Roo - News from Ken Rimple and Gordon Dickens

2010-07-12, Chariot Solutions

Chariot's Ken Rimple and Gordon Dickens are following in the path of several of our architects - they are becoming published authors. Both are working, along with Ben Alex, on a book for Manning, Spring Roo in Action. Here is a video interview with them. They give a brief overview of Roo and discuss why they wanted to write the book. (sorry for the link, but YouTube was giving me trouble with the embedding today.) As they said in the video, you can get the early chapters of the book at: http://www.manning.com/dickens. It may not have been clear in the video. We will have more interviews with Ken and Gordon on Roo and Spring Integration. As you can tell, they are pretty passionate about the topic. [...Read More...]

Mobile Musings from June

2010-07-01, Chariot Solutions

June has been a busy month for mobile, primarily because of Apple's launch of iOS4 and the new iPhone (antenna woes and all). However, presenting an update on that would be too easy; here are a few things you might have missed in all the hubbub. CNET reported that merely weeks after Microsoft launch of Kin, they would be stopping development, and focusing on Windows Phone 7. 1 Android released 2.2 to developers with the notable additions being: Improved performance Use as a portable hotspot (certain devices) Exchange support Multiple keyboard languages 2 Rhodes 2.0 was launched under its new MIT license allowing developers far more flexibility and a broader scope to use Rhodes in developing applications. RhoSync remained under Rhomobile commercial license. The launch of Rhodes 2.0 brought with it some new features, primarily the metadata framework, which I have yet to get my teeth into. 3 MeeGo, the joint venture between Intel's Moblin and Nokia's Meamo announced its "Handset Project Day 1" complete with video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW5wpg5epMs), which I thought looked pretty darn slick. 4 I'll be keeping a closer eye on MeeGo as its growth continues, and looking out for new Intel Atom-based devices, until then though; I'll [...Read More...]

Making the Most of Maven: Nexus, Hudson, Sonar

2010-06-16, Chariot Solutions

Maven is a build tool. I like Maven because it supports dependency management, consistent builds and a modular code base. But if you are just using Maven without using Nexus, Hudson, Sonar you are really missing out on a lot of goodness. Nexus is a Maven repository manager, Hudson is a CI server, and Sonar is a code metrics server. All three share some commons attributes: They are web-based server applications They have an open source license They are easy to install -- just unzip and run the embedded app server (Jetty or Winstone) or deploy as a WAR into your existing app server They have very professional looking user interfaces. Don't underestimate the value of a good paint job when getting buy-in for a new product. They are fairly easy to extend. I've written plugins for all three. They have active communities They have commercial support available if you want it They are continually being updated with new releases containing features and bug fixes OK, great -- all three are web-based and awesome. But what do they actually do? Nexus -- http://nexus.sonatype.org Nexus is a Maven repository manager. A vanilla Maven repository is just a web server with a [...Read More...]

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