Archive for July, 2009

Why your mobile site probably sucks

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Mobile phones of today can handle big sites fine. They can handle JavaScript quite well too. Then why is it that I constantly encounter crappy mobile versions of sites? What is it that makes these sites so bad, even though they were obviously designed with small screens in mind? While making ...

How to install Palm Pre/webOS SDK on Windows 7 x64?

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Note: latest versions of webOS SDK should install without problems on Win 7 x64. However you are free to try this if you encounter problems with it. Palm has recently released the Palm Pre webOS SDK to the public. Installing it on Windows 7 64-bit is a bit problematic however. When attempting ...

Opera Mobile vs. iPhone Safari Mobile

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Lately I've had the chance to use an iPhone 3G. As I've been considering purchasing the new 3G S, this has been a good opportunity to see if I like the thing, but what I think of the phone itself is a matter of another post - Today, let's look ...

Opera Command, JavaScript based Missile Command game

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Firstly I'd just like to let you know that the lack of posts lately is because I have a new full time job which I'm enjoying quite much so far, but it still means I have less time / motivation to write stuff. The unit testing series and other postings ...

Unit testing 5: test-driven development

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

In this post I'll introduce the methodology known as test-driven development, and how to use it in your projects. The difference between "normal" and test-driven development (TDD) is that when doing TDD, you write unit tests for your new code before writing the code itself. This way you ensure good test ...