Today's Enable is dedicated to developers. You guys and gals don't get the credit you deserve and are typically blamed for product bugs and problems. Are these product faults really your fault?
You are being pushed from all sides. You need prototypes, beta sites, etc. Your marketing "friends" are pushing you to get the product to market in record time. You feel the pressure every day - but where can you turn for help? Can the Internet help you like it seems to be helping everyone else?
If you are a wireless developer, you're in luck. AnywhereYouGo.com provides you with online tools and other information to help you develop applications that work without bugs and other problems - fast.
The solutions AnywhereYouGo.com provides are crucial because, according to the IGI group, by the year 2003 more people will access the Internet via a mobile phone than via PC. This will drive mobile e-commerce, which Strategy Analytics forecasts will reach a total 14 billion transactions in 2005 for a total market of $200 billion. The challenge is for today's wireless developers to build applications for multiple technologies, devices, and country standards.
AnywhereYouGo.com is the largest independent community of wireless application developers. The AnywhereYouGo.com web site provides industry and product news, developer tools and resources, industry reports, online application testing, directories of developers and applications, training and tutorials, and discussion groups covering wireless application development:
The entire site is excellent - especially the newsletters which I subscribe to personally. But today is dedicated to developers only, and as such Enable only focuses on the developer tools and application testing sections.
Five Steps To WAP Development
Anywhereyougo.com provides developers with a five step process for WAP development.
The steps are summarized below:
- Step 1 - Understand WAP:
- Step 2 - Get The Tools You Need
- Step 3 - Write Your First Application
- Step 4 - Write advanced applications
- Step 5 - Test Your Application
Online WAP Testing Tool
This section is specifically designed to ensure that your WAP users seeing the application you wrote, the way you intended. You can test your existing WAP applications using the online utility for code errors, common mistakes, and valid links.
You can choose from the following tests to run against your site:
- Check the document's content type header
- Validate the document against the DTD declared in it
- Check the document for formatting tags that are not commonly supported
- Check the compiled size of the document
- Follow links that lead off of your site to other sites?
Developer's Notebook
The site also has a very detailed developer's notebook which contains articles submitted by members of the community - people who are working in the trenches to make wireless work around the world.
Some sample articles include:
- Real-Time Debugging Highly Integrated Embedded Wireless Devices by David Ruimy Gonzales
In this installment of the Developer's Notebook, Motorola's David Gonzales examines the trend toward reducing the number of components in these systems as it relates to cost, overall power consumption and manufacturing complexity.
- Dual Core Architecture for Cellular Handsets by David Ruimy Gonzales
The exponential growth of the wireless communications industry has created a multitude of new products with advanced features that allow users to stay in touch with every aspect of their lives wherever they may be. These new products are quite diverse, require more system performance with no exceptions to power conservation and have short product life cycles.
- Introduction to Location Services and Location-Based Services by John Davies
AnywhereYouGo.com community member John Davies provides part one in a three-part series on location and location-based services.
- Seven Steps to Success in the Mobile Wireless Enterprise by Tanya Candia
In a Developer's Notebook white paper, F-Secure VP Tanya Candia explains why companies who are looking to make it in the m-commerce space have to make changes in the way they do business.
All of the above are only brief highlights of what the site has to offer. Take the time to go to AnywhereYouGo.com and check it out thoroughly. Enable guarantees that you will return - again and again.
Published by Israel's Business Arena on September 5, 2000.