mobiForge server upgrade
Just a quick note that there will be a short period of downtime today due to a planned server upgrade. Thanks for your patience and we'll have everything back to normal as soon as we can. more...
Hotbeds of Mobile Development
When you register for mobiForge, we ask you a few optional questions about who and where you are. This is not because we are running some elaborate email spam scheme, but basically because we like graphs. In particular, we ask you to provide your city and country. We thought we'd let you know where the hot beds of mobile development are around the world - at least for a sample of the 22,000 users who've registered on mobiForge. more...
mobiForge - A Brief History
As mentioned in our first official mobiForge newsletter, as a tribute to dev.mobi, the site that mobiForge once was, we thought it would be fun to put together a time-line of notable moments in its two year life. We feel that dev.mobi, has done a great job of serving the mobile development community, and has very much helped to make the mobile Internet dream a reality. We're very proud of what we've achieved so far. So here's the longer version of the shorter version in the newsletter: more...
A Very Modern Mobile Switching Algorithm - Part I
An important question that most web developers ask when developing their first mobile web site is "how do I distinguish between mobile users and desktop users?". Although this seems like a simple enough question at first, of course there's more to it than meets the eye. In fact, what do we even mean by 'distinguish'? How we distinguish their requirements? Their desires? The services they expect? The browsers they happen to be using? more...
Vertical Search just got better
One of the new goodies we developed for mobiForge was our Vertical Search feature. This search replaces the stock search functionality bundled with the CMS that mobiForge runs on. If you haven't tried it out yet, in a nutshell, Vertical Search combines mobiForge search results with relevant results from various other mobile resource sites from around the web. more...
Open source LBS
Location based services are becoming more and more prevalent every day, with innovative applications that make use of location, like FireEagle, and Google Maps for Mobile, popping up all the time. We've just published the first part of a two-part piece on Location via CellID, and the open source database of CellIDs, OpenCellID. more...
dev.mobi goes Wordle
If you haven't seen Wordle, go take a look: it's a fun, pretty tag cloud generator.Here's how the front page of dev.mobi looks: Apart from the cricked necks here at dotMobi towers, it's nice to see some of the subliminal messages. "Blog with mobile!" more...
Free developer event in San Francisco Bay Area this Friday
Just a quick reminder about our developer event in the San Francisco Bay Area this Friday 30th May. If you are in the Bay Area, and fancy a FREE breakfast, followed by a FREE developer session, then pop on down to the Stanford Park Hotel in Menlo Park on Friday at 9am. more...
dev.mobi is going on tour!
dev.mobi has grown to be a significant developer community for the mobile web but, for the most part, it's been an online experience. That is about to change with dev.mobi taking to the field with developer events in the San Francisco, New York, and London areas. This is your chance to meet some of the dotMobi people behind dev.mobi and our other product offerings. It is also a chance to meet other mobile developers that are part of the same dev.mobi community as you. more...
Follow mobiForge on Twitter
Having trouble keeping up with all the new articles and forum posts on mobiForge? If you're a Twitter user, here's another alternative for doing so. Simply follow the Twitter user "mobiforge" and you will be subscribed to all our new blog, article, and forum posts. more...
