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I'm a mobile developer from Italy, and CTO of FuelMobile, a mobile software house based in Rome.

I enthusiastically work on multiple mobile platforms and technologies, but my primary interests are surely Java ME and Flash Lite.

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Guarana UI online Components Browser

Yesterday , the Guarana UI framework has been launched, with a complete set of ready-to-use components that will definitely be useful to all Web Runtime developers. It's now available a Guarana UI online Components Browser , that allows developers to quickly...

Adobe Flash Lite Distributable dropped

Just came back from a relaxing weekend, with a totally unrelaxing news: as reported, among others, by Leonardo , Alessandro and Mariam , Adobe just dropped the Flash Lite Distributable Player , to entirely focus on Flash 10.1 (for the mobile browser), Air Mobile (for standalone)...

Porting Opera mobile widgets to S60 Web Runtime

In the past weeks I've done some experience with Opera mobile widgets , and would like to share first some tips and guidelines about porting a widget, originally developed for the Vodafone/Opera widget runtime, to the S60 Web Runtime platform . Both platforms use Web standards such as...

Mobilise your website, build a Web Runtime launcher in few easy steps!

Today I'd like to give a first preview a new little tool that allows users, developers and websites' owners to create a mobile launcher WRT widget for their websites in few, easy steps: the Website Launcher generator ! The website offers a...

An alternative approach to Web Runtime widgets' update

Usually, when a mobile application needs an update , it is necessary to release a new version , and to deploy this new version on all the devices where the old version was installed. This includes scenarios as bug fixing, releases of new features, and also the smallest code changes. ...

Web Runtime JavaScript battery and network signal components

Developing Widgets for Web Runtime is absolutely easy and fun , specially if you come from Web development . While there are a lot of libraries and components that can be easily adapted and used within WRT Widgets , there are still not many components specifically tought and...

Mobilising websites: guidelines for WRT Widgets development, part 2

Some days ago I've put together 5 first guidelines that I usually find useful when thinking about any new WRT Widget . These can be summarized as follows: Widgets and Websites : same technologies, but with some differences Implement an update mechanism Create viral...

Mobilising websites: guidelines for WRT Widgets development, part 1

Since there's a lot of excitement around mobile Web , and particularly about WRT Widgets , I started thinking about which possible guidelines could help both Web and mobile developers to face this new opportunity. Of course, for developers already familiar with WRT and/or mobile environment,...