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• CTIA Wireless Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Dan Richards 0 Comments

  

  I attended the CTIA Wireless show a couple weeks ago.  Our reason for attending was to get a sense of the state of the mobile/wireless industry and to see and hear what some of the trends are that we should be thinking about.

   
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• Know What You Don’t Know Posted Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Jerry Gulla 2 Comments

  

  This past weekend, I attended No Fluff Just Stuff in Boston. It was, as usual, a great conference. One of the takeaways I’d like to reflect on is something Venkat Subramaniam said during Sunday’s speaker panel. (Update: Venkat was quoting another NFJS speaker, Mark Richards explaining the “Knowledge Pyramid”). I asked the question “how do you keep up with new languages, libraries and the like?”  I was very interested in his answer, because for me, it always seems as if I never have as much time as I’d like to learn and explore what’s out there.

   
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• Mobile Apps - Native or Web? Posted Friday, March 5, 2010 Reneldy Senat 4 Comments

  

  There’s been a lot of debate on the web and in the blogs over mobile apps and which are better: native device-driven apps, or its counterpart, mobile web apps. I’ve always thought this to be a totally fair question, because they both offer real benefits to the user and sometimes serious drawbacks for developers. The truth is, although I believe they both have their own measurable benefits, I don’t believe there could ever truly be a real winner in this debate. The question is too subjective for a user, and for a developer, it ends up being completely requirements driven.

  In this post I step away from a user’s perspective and focus on some of the decisions developers will have to make when determining which is right for their project. For developers, this decision should be driven by requirements, but for those occasions when you’re just not sure which is right, feel free to refer to the following analysis.

   
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• A “No Fluff” Weekend Posted Thursday, March 4, 2010 Jerry Gulla 4 Comments

  Early Spring is one of my favorite times of the year. No, it’s not because I’ve had enough of a New England winter (although that is usually the case). It’s because it’s one of the two times a year my favorite technical conference - No Fluff Just Stuff (aka NFJS) - comes around to the Boston area.

   
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