In case you missed, tests show that Safari on the iPhone will only cache objects that are under 25k. Something to keep in mind as you build your iPhone web apps.
Month: March 2008
Back in the Blogging Saddle
Alright, I’m going to try to buckle down and get back in the habit. To do so, I’m going to give allow myself the opportunity to write short, quick posts. Like this one.
Mobile Portland Next Monday
In case you missed it, the first meeting of Mobile Portland is scheduled for next Monday. See more details and RSVP.
links for 2008-03-16
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“According to figures from Gartner, sales of mobile phones surpassed 1.15 billion units in 2007. This number is a 16% increase from 2006’s numbers of 999 million units sold.”
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Great looking game for the iphone. Really shows how the iPhone interface can make a whole different type of game.
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Nice idea for a online video site. Created by MC Hammer
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Marc Andreesen, co-founder of Netscape and currently with Ning, met Obama last spring. He talks about that meeting.
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Sparkline web service and cod
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Shaun Inman describes the IMAP prefix problem I’m having in Mail.app exactly. No solution that I’ve found.
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Good comparison of the various mobile SDKs
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“Watching Job draw the letterforms is mesmeric enough, but when his son (?) joins in, I found myself laughing as he tries to imitate his fathers work.”
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A bunch of cool free icons
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“Senator Clinton’s campaign has launched one of the oddest bits of political propaganda in the history of modern politics. Called DelegateHub.com, it is a web site that does nothing less than lay out, in glorious policy-wonk detail, their rationale for st
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I love WebDAV. Seriously. It is an under appreciated technology.
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CoverFlow functionality built in AJAX
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Drupal’s own website makes it difficult to find modules. This promises an easier place to search.
links for 2008-03-15
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“The study explored the current state of marketing to online communities, from the perspective of both the online community host, as well as from the perspective of the marketer. “
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a script that allowed paid search advertisers to view the exact search queries of their visitors.
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Good explanation of a css property that most people don’t know, but that can significantly speed up page rendering–particularly in IE.
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“If I had told you ten years ago that by the end of 2007 there would be an international network of wirelessly-connected computers throughout the developing world, you might well have said it wasn’t possible.”
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Samples of grid designs
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Large collection of ajax scripts
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I’ve had to translate a few legal documents to the web before and always looked for a better solution to the fact that the web outline didn’t match the word document source. This describes an alternative.
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For those who are looking for substance behind the words
links for 2008-03-14
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opensource mobile content management system
links for 2008-03-12
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Resources for OAuth
links for 2008-03-07
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NY Times iPhone-optimized elections results page
links for 2008-03-03
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Another javascript library.
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Allows for the creation of custom fields and the associated input fields
links for 2008-03-02
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A small PHP script and some clever URL rewriting designed to speed up the loading of pages that use many or large css and javascript files.