Sean Cook

The worst part of developing for the mobile web is ensuring that you’re accounting for the quirks of each of your target devices’ browsers.  I often compare this to developing for the fixed web circa 1998–  no matter how great your site looked in one browser, you still had to hack it to pieces to [...]

If you have firmware version 2.0+ on your iPhone, you can quickly take a screenshot on the device by navigating to the screen you want to grab, holding down the home button, then pressing and releasing the sleep/awake button on the top of the phone. Your screen will “flash” to indicate that the picture [...]

Bitpim is an open-source program that allows a user to manipulate data on a CDMA handset, including the phone book, wallpapers, ringtones, and in some cases, the filesystem. While poking around the application’s source, which is written in python, I found a great class that provides a quick way to access the phone’s manufacturer, ESN, [...]

One of the easiest, most obvious ways to lower the data transfer footprint of your mobile apps is to compress data. For some reason, I still see mobile web decks that output XHTML-MP in plain text instead of very-easy-to-implement GZIP compression. I’ve implemented GZIP output on multiple J2EE projects with the help of Jayson Falkner’s [...]