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Google web search traffic

Enough toaster jokes already, its April the second..... Techchrunch have posted an interesting analysis of traffic coming to websearch. http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/03/29/follow-the-mobile-user/ Ok, so there are some questions around the Andoid vs S60 search views...

Looks like I was wrong

It appears there might be a need for antivirus software on S60 phones after all. (More)

At the moment I'm willing to try anything to get ODD to work

Having spent the morning trying to persuade Carbide that I do not have an N73 at the end of the USB cable despite what windows and my self know I found this reddit post quite amusing One major feature request for ODD - can we have meaningful error messages: what does error code 20...

Symbian signed and openess

I hav'nt posted for a while, primarily becuase I am behind in whitepaper writing and partially due to work commitments. Anyway I am working on a new set of posts explaining the OMA-DM adapters and how to access them so this will be starting in a few days as I have realized the...

Article on Using RArray and RPointerArray on Symbians website

I had an article published last week on Symbian's website. This covers some of the more advanced use cases and constructs when using RArray and RPointerArray as well as some of the issues and common problems developers encounter using these powerful and useful classes. Note...

Nokia innovation article

Business week are running an article about innovation and Nokia. http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/apr2008/gb20080430_764271.htm Remember to click the slide show at the end of the article to see the phone designs people came up with. (More)

iPhone SDK released

I just finished following the presentation, and WOW! If it lives up to the hype it will definatly push Apple to the forefront of mobile application development. (More)

Some uses for the Morph phone

The new Morph phone - (the small green 'un) shown recently was pretty cool, though I am not sure how practical it is. Those folks over at Wired have come up with 7 new uses for it when it arrives at an operators shop near you Click here to see them Enough joviality, now back to...

Apple updates webkit

Computer world is reporting that the new webkit updates have made a massive performance increase - up to 2.5 times in Safaria Here's hoping that Nokia roll these changes into the web browser client so we can all get these improvements as the project now seems devoid of updates in the...

Nokia's purchase of TrollTech

A former work collegue Andreas Constantinou, now director of Vision Mobile has dissected Nokia purchase and why they did it. http://visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/ It does however provide a good insight into the many reasons that Nokia...

Android Dev Day

On Thursday Google had a developers day for their Android platform. Unfortunalty I arrived 10 minutes late and I thought it would be like last year when there were 1500 devs so I could just hide in the background - but oh no, there were a about 30 select dev's there. (More)

Useful design patterns

I came across a really useful link to a jpg/pdf that show most of the GOF's design patterns. For those of you that do'nt know, design patterns are really useful abstractions that help you write better code. When I am designing software I always try to think about how I can express my...

Some unrelated links

I just got bitten by the facebook bug and found out there is agroup for Symbian developers http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6322721335 One of the Champions, Marcus Groeber posted an interesting link in the forums which shows the Type Approval Codes for all the Nokia devices. The TAC...

Generating XML

Last year I decided to overhaul one of our internal modules. This module used hand coded XML for its output along with all the attendant problems - no support for utf8 or for escaping. In the end wrote a little class node class to build a tree and a helper class to dump the tree onto a...

Scalability

One of the things engineers are going to have to think about when the new widgets api's come out is not just to think about the device, but rather to think about the server side. I mean how great is your widget going to be if your server is being hosed by millions of clients. The biggest...