Monthly Archives: July 2009

Lessons about web sites for mobile browsers

Posted on July 30, 2009 by David Megginson

Working on ourairports.mobi, the mobile version of OurAirports, I’m getting a crash course in writing for mobile browsers. Here, in no particular order, are some of my lessons: The OpenWave browser is horrendous, ignoring character encoding, randomly skipping some simple … Continue reading →

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Costing out Google App Engine

Posted on July 18, 2009 by David Megginson

The Google App Engine (GAE) is the newest of the major cloud computing platforms for hosting web applications. I’ve been experimenting with it for a couple of days, and will post my impressions later. For now, I thought it might … Continue reading →

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