Why your mobile site probably sucks

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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 a special layout for small screens is a great …

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

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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 to install it, the setup runs through fine …

Opera Mobile vs. iPhone Safari Mobile

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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 at its browse and compare it to Opera Mobile, which …

Opera Command, JavaScript based Missile Command game

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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 will continue (see how I didn’t say “next week”, but …

Unit testing 5: test-driven development

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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 coverage for your code, and your code will also …