Mobbu is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, check it out.
The URLs that are used to access an web application are important, they are part of the interface to the application. Here I put together some random principles which should help towards a quality URL design.
Keep URLs short. Short is easy to remember, to edit in the address bar, to write down, etc. The most [...]
OpenID has two good ideas:
The user identifies himself using an URL
The same ID (URL) is used to login to multiple web sites
Google, on the other hand:
Has a large number of users, and a large internet footprint
Uses a single ID (the gmail account name) for login to multiple google services (gmail, analytics, adwords, sitemap, blogger, etc)
Google [...]
Disclaimer: this article is in draft state, I plan to come back and improve it upon checking the facts, so take it with a grain of salt.
The fact that a midlet is signed by the author (vendor) certifies two things:
that the author really authored that midlet
that the midlet is in original state (i.e. it hasn’t [...]
A mandatory midlet attribute, which must appear in both the jad and the jar, is Midlet-Vendor; it designates, as the name suggests, the vendor (or the author) of the midlet. One problem with this attribute is that the structure of its value is not specified in the MIDP standard: it may contain any string (including [...]
I’ve been using Dreamhost for one year now, and I thought I’ll write a review, to see how the referral system works (disclaimer: I get referral fees for everybody who signs up following a link from this page).
The lowest plan costs about $10/month, and comes with about 180 GB disk space, and 1800 GB transfer/month; [...]
Since the 1st of January, 2007, Romania (and Bulgaria) is a member of the European Union. That’s great, congratulations to Romania and Bulgaria for making it. (I’m Romanian myself, and yes this EU accession does feel good).
The open-moko phone (FIC Neo) is now scheduled for release in February 2007. I can’t wait to get one. [...]