A lot of people are very skeptical about the latest between Nokia and Microsoft, puritans have issues with the bastardization of the platform and the OS. But windows phone has been running cross platform for years, and with Microsoft implementing a very strict minimum handset specification for all devices, substandard handsets is a thing of the past. And as for Nokia, I don't think there are more versions and builds of an OS floating around in the market place than Simbian.
The merger/partnership seems to be one of the mist interesting developments to come out of 2011. It has been a long time coming with both windows phone and and Nokia playing catch up on the smartphone market for quite some time now. Microsoft has a brilliant OS and UI, and Nokia has the marketshare, a vibrant ovi app and music store, and together they stand a chance to be a real player in the modern smartphone race. And from what we are seeing in the developer community on windows phone 7.1, there will even be apps for Africa soon enough. The tools are innovative, the language easy, and the support is there. Microsoft want input from developers, they want to improve, and they want to make it. Rumors are out that we can expect a windows phone Nokia late 2011.
This is an interesting development that I will be watching very closely.
Tuesday, 23 August 2011
XTEXT & DSL's
in a recent lecture at apps_world africa, one of the keynote speakers mentioned DSL's to provide basic templates for apps, creating a set DSL and teaching all in house devs to develop with it. now is this really an option? is it just a lazy man's way of working, or is there method in his madness? comments will be appreciated, as for me, let the search begin.
RANT!!!
LOL, you can follow yourself on Blogger..... isnt that like 'like'ing your own facebook status, or retweeting yourself?!
My 1st Post: Hello World
Ok, bare with me here, this is my 1st attempt at a blog.
My reluctance to blog stems from the fact that, well, everybody has got one these days, and stats show that up to 2 million blogs are being updated at any given time (not that I know what 'any given time' means in seconds, minutes or hours), along with twitter's billions of updates making opinions worth less and less.
Now you can differentiate yourself from the masses, by providing content that is relevant, interesting, focused, and/or moderately amusing, or helpful. Up until recently I havnt found anything in my life I really wanted to share that had at least a few of those characteristics, not from traveling, religion, previous work experiences, my dabblings in competitive gaming, fitness, healthy living, or even my opinions on Barney the purple dinosaur. there are others that just do it so much better, and THAT was my opinion.
Until now.
I've always been a bit of an entrepreneur and problem solver, and have recently stumbled upon a very interesting tool to distribute the services and solutions and ideas I come up with. That tool is mobile application design, that has following the major growth of smartphones exploded. And so, this blog will be on my experiences in app design, the challenges I face, obstacles I overcome, events and happenings in the smartphone realm I found I can share better than others, and information on the actual apps I design.
So If this is something that may be of interest, feel free to join me on this journey, and if it isnt, well then to you Im simply another one of the 2 million blogs being updated that just means nothing to you or your life.
And here.... we... go!!!
My reluctance to blog stems from the fact that, well, everybody has got one these days, and stats show that up to 2 million blogs are being updated at any given time (not that I know what 'any given time' means in seconds, minutes or hours), along with twitter's billions of updates making opinions worth less and less.
Now you can differentiate yourself from the masses, by providing content that is relevant, interesting, focused, and/or moderately amusing, or helpful. Up until recently I havnt found anything in my life I really wanted to share that had at least a few of those characteristics, not from traveling, religion, previous work experiences, my dabblings in competitive gaming, fitness, healthy living, or even my opinions on Barney the purple dinosaur. there are others that just do it so much better, and THAT was my opinion.
Until now.
I've always been a bit of an entrepreneur and problem solver, and have recently stumbled upon a very interesting tool to distribute the services and solutions and ideas I come up with. That tool is mobile application design, that has following the major growth of smartphones exploded. And so, this blog will be on my experiences in app design, the challenges I face, obstacles I overcome, events and happenings in the smartphone realm I found I can share better than others, and information on the actual apps I design.
So If this is something that may be of interest, feel free to join me on this journey, and if it isnt, well then to you Im simply another one of the 2 million blogs being updated that just means nothing to you or your life.
And here.... we... go!!!
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