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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)

Building Smartphone Apps

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)

“but isn’t HTML5 enough?” – why mobile usage will always be about native, not web, apps

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 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 ... (more)

IVMeds

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 ... (more)