“Development as a service” is the newest buzzword in the cloud computing arena. Services such as Heroku and force.com have started to pioneer a new model of doing most of your development work out in the cloud with only a browser used on your local device. This is an exciting development in general. But no [...]
On Friday, I had the pleasure of participating in a panel at SDForum’s Developer Conference on trends in mobile application development. Alongside representatives from Sun, Nokia and others, we discussed emerging ways that mobile apps were being built. Two in particular seemed to capture the panel’s interest: high level, declarative development the success of HTML [...]
Two weeks ago we released 1.0 to far greater than expected press and customer uptake. Frontpage stories on CNet, VentureBeat, InfoWorld, ArsTechnica and others, with very insightful analysis (although a few other articles confused us with a mobile web development solution because of our use of HTML to create views). Ryan Paul from ArsTechnica even [...]
