Rowland Gosling is a senior consultant for Magenic Technologies, Inc (www.magenic.com) a premier software development and consulting company focused on Microsoft technology. He specializes in data-centric applications using .NET and has also coauthored Professional Design Pattern in C# (Wrox Press, August 2003).
Last fall I predicted that the next killer application would be built on the
mobile platform, and so I bought a new PDA with a:
624MHz chip VGA Two kinds of expansion slots (CF I/II and SD) 192 MB of total
memory (128 MB ROM, 64 MB SDRAM) My prediction was based on the fact that
lots of people could now create mobile apps with .NET, and the fact that SQL
Server 2005 Mobile Edition would be licensed as part of SQL Server 2000/2005.
This meant that more people would be thinking about diminutive devices and
sooner or later we'd be wondering how we ever lived without some "gotta-have"
new widget.
The night I bought the IPAQ I set it up on the kitchen table and got out my
laptop. I wrote and deployed a simple list application in about two hours
sans data. Of course that littl... (more)
My goals for this article include reviewing some of the new toys for data
development on the mobile platform and providing some solid code examples for
you to review. I'm going to approach this as I have for many years through
the use of Design Patterns. This is not a thorough treatise on that subject;
rather, I'll be taking you along my own journey so that you might find an
answer somew... (more)
Rowland Gosling is a senior consultant for Magenic Technologies, Inc (www.magenic.com) a premier software development and consulting company focused on Microsoft technology. He specializes in data-centric applications using .NET and has also coauthored Professional Design Pattern in C# (Wrox Press, August 2003).
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