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HowTo C# Mobile

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:53:24 GMT

I've been struggling with just how to write a mobile website. What I've noticed is a bunch of really crappy mobile websites and I sure didn't want to do one of them. My approach was to simply tweak my existing HTML websites for mobile devices. Here's what I wrote. When mobile is true, I simply remove the clutter normally in my HTML websites. Sorry for the lack of formatting. My code was partially based on code written by Richard Jones.

bool mobile = false;
try
{
System.Web.Mobile.MobileCapabilities cur = (System.Web.Mobile.MobileCapabilities)Request.Browser;
if (cur.IsMobileDevice
    || (Request.UserAgent.IndexOf("Windows CE") != -1)
    || (Request.UserAgent.IndexOf("iPhone;") != -1)
    || (Request.UserAgent.IndexOf("iPod;") != -1))
{
    mobile = true;
    Context.Items.Add("mobile", true);
}
}
catch
{
}

Facebook Mobile Sucks

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:52:39 GMT

Today, I was trying to use Facebook mobile. Wow! That realy sucks. Most everything in Facebook is unavailable in their mobile offering. You can barely do anything. This is perfect example of what I've complained about; mobile specific version of sites. Stupid! Website designers, especially mobile website designers continue to be some of the dumbest people on this planet.

Online GUID Generator

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:34:33 GMT

Nice idea!

http://www.guidgenerator.com/

Eat Your Own Dog Food

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:30:23 GMT

Eating your own dog food means using your own product. It's very common in software development. The advantage of doing this is that you quickly recognize bugs, deficiencies and potential new features.

Recently Google announced that they are moving their AdSense Help Forum away from Google Groups to a new platform. They describe a few new features that weren't available in Google Groups. I quickly asked myself why they didn't simply add those new features to Google Groups? That's part of eating your own dog food. Recognizing potential features and implementing them. I wonder if their was a conversation at Google where the AdSense team asked for the features and were refused by the Groups team? Or is the Groups product in maintenance mode (no new features)?