Continuing its effort to get by with a little help from its friends, Nokia released a new version of its Qt user interface framework and Qt Creator, an integrated development environment (IDE). The new software is offered under the Lesser GPL for the first time, as well as the main GPL and two comme...

Last night I went to my second Silicon Valley iPhone Developers meetup . Tim Burks is the organizer  (13 so far!) and both times I’ve been impressed by the speakers and what I’ve learned. I’ll go again. If you want to get in next month you better say “Yes” now. I Tweet...

Josh Holmes has a great post about going the the mattresses to prove ROI for your application.  His post, “Moving From Cost center to Strategic Partnerâ€�, is well-written and is dead on the money. During my interview process at Microsoft, my interviews focused predominantly on two themes: ho...

Hello world. My name is Luke Nyswonger and I manage the Windows Mobile SDK documentation team in addition to promoting an active blogging community here at Microsoft. Over the past 3 months we’ve tried to put a steady stream of consumer and developer focused content out to the community for commen...

Mal wieder Lust auf einen informativen Video-Abend? :-) Die Windows-Mobile-Experten Peter Nowak, Patrick Getzmann und Simon Hackfort haben sich zusammengetan und eine sechsteilige Serie von Webcasts zu Themen rund um die Windows-Mobile-Programmierung aufgelegt, die für all diejenigen interessant se...

I’ve already mentioned this on Twitter, but so far I haven’t had a chance to write about the culmination of my first “proper� efforts to create a mashup: TwtrCtr. For those not obsessed with Twitter or their follower numbers, there’s an application you probably haven’t heard of called Tw...

I went to an interesting mobile event this week called "Mobile Persuasion" all about mobile user experience and design.  It was hosted by City University and Human Factors International.  "Persusasion, Emotion, and Trust are the design rage, but how are they applied to mob...

Belize is a fascinating country, and the role that mobile connectivity will play in its economic development has unique challenges.   After spending 2 weeks criss-crossing the jungles, remote villages, and tropical beaches of the country, I thought it'd be interesting to profile the ...

I took a lot of heat for my recent post on Symbian, but a recent ZDNet UK interview with Symbian research chief David Wood has me asking more hard questions. Should Symbian really be called open source? Wood says its Eclipse license only allows code to be shared among “Foundation Members.̶...

I’m a web guy. I have been working on web products and web sites for many years and have grown used to the tools and platforms available to web developers. The mobile web is different. There are so many layers of technology which are still evolving. The layers of abstraction which make web dev...