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“How your mobile site may not be much more complicated than building one with a data API or AJAX”
I am working on a project called ‘IvyRoot’ that is predominantly mobile and which is going to make me fabulously rich and famous.
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I’m somehow dissatisfied with mobile cartography.
On the Hollywood Walk of Fame site, we’re currently using Google Maps. When I first saw Google Maps on the web, I was thrilled with the cartography. The craft of good map-making started to shine through after a decade of turgid MapQuest vectors.
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Welcome to my new blog theme. It includes a pseudo-portfolio for my various mobile activities in 2009.
I had to generate some new resumé-style posts and they probably all showed up in your feeds. Sorry.
If you’re on the new site, I hope you like it.
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I was amazed to discover that Google don’t currently support Python as a language for their mobile ads. AdMob doesn’t either (thinking it’s more likely that people might use perl or VBScript for a contemporary web site).
But it’s a particularly strange omission for Google, since it’s one of their three ‘official’ internal languages (together with Java and C++), and because their Google App Engine platform mandates it. Do they assume that no-one would create a mobile application in their cloud?
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After someone I respect got banned from the WMLProgramming mailing list, I wrote to agree with one or two other members who were disappointed with the state of affairs.
I’ve been a member since, I guess, the first few weeks of the group’s existence – even if I haven’t been a day-to-day contributor. Sadly it’s gone downhill over the last year or so.
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