Category Archives: mobile development

The old-school Objective C is approaching top 10

By Ben | Published: December 9, 2009
From time to time I check the index of the most popular programming languages by tiobe, check out how popular the old-school Objective-C is becoming! Given that this language is very old school, it makes me wonder what would have happended to the Appshop and Apple if they opened the Shop for Java, PHP or Python? Permanent [...]
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MegaTrend #9: Cross-platform Mobile Development

By Ben | Published: November 30, 2009
In a recent article by InfoWorld Cross Platform mobile development was mentioned as one of the top 10 emerging enterprise technologies. Until about 1 years ago the options for cross-platform mobile development were doing platform specific native builds for Symbian, WinMo, Blackberry, UIQ, etc. or Java development with specific twists per handset / handset group or WAP/XHTML Mobile Web [...]
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Obfuscation Bugs in J2ME Apps

By Ben | Published: November 21, 2009
Does this sound familiar to you? It really did drive me crazy. Bug only appeared in a certain phone model with a certain version of the app. Not in emulator, not in other phones, not with other version of the app and just 2 weeks ago – without major change in the app – all was [...]
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