Friday I’m speaking at the Mobile 2.0 conference in Mountain View. The
topic is “iPhone for Business”, which, if I took the topic literally,
raises many issues about distribution and maintenance of smartphones in the
enterprise. But I’m really just going to focus on the narrower issue of
“iPhone apps for business”: how do you build compelling and useful
smartphone apps for enterprise information?
This is informed primarily by my experience helping companies build
smartphone apps for internal use using the Rhodes framework. Most of these
smartphone apps are internal company apps for areas such as: helpdesk service
requests, home healthcare patient service delivery, and CRM customer and
product management. A few are on the App Store such as VDG Group’s Issues
To Go for bug tracking and Koombea’s TrackR for Pivotal Tracker. To be
clear, not all of the apps I’ve s... (more)
Smartphone apps are the most exciting trend in computing since the advent of
web apps. How do you as a developer take advantage of this? More
generally, how do you do that and get maximum reach for your app across the
diversity of smartphones out there. If you’re writing a consumer app you
can get away with just targeting the iPhone (albeit missing some market
opportunity). If you’re writing a business app you need to be able to
reach all the users in the enterprise. There just are no homogeneous
mobile device environments in any place but the smallest mom and pop shops
n... (more)
I’m here at RailsConf 2010. What a great place to talk to current and
prospective Rhodes developers! Rails developers all get why its important to
have a full Model View Controller framework. They also get pretty excited
about the presence of the first mobile Ruby on every smartphone device. Rails
developers get the value of Rhodes deeper than any audience I’ve
encountered.
A couple of the other talks, from otherwise insightful web framework
developers, who apparently have “smartphone envy”, were disturbing. One
speaker talked about his efforts to make Rails a little better for ... (more)
CalOffRoad
CalOffRoad is a listing of popular offroad trails in California. Includes a
mapping funciton and a short description of the trails. Data is gathered from
Dirtopia. CalOffRoad is available for download on the App Store.
Download iPhone
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IVMeds
IVMeds is a program that allows the health care provider to have access to
more than 45 common IV medications. Some of the medications have 3 to 5
different concentrations. The user can calculate the doses on the IV
medications and then compare it to the data provided. (This is not a
substitute for calculating your doses.) Available on the Android Market and
the App Store.
Download Android iPhone
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Adam Blum is CEO of Rhomobile. He came from Good Technology and while spending millions on enterprise mobile application development he realized there was a need for a framework for enterprises to build mobile applications easily and cost-effectively empower their workforce without training their programmers to learn different programming languages and building apps from scratch. He has spoken at Interop in Las Vegas and at Ruby events all over the world.
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