LiMo Foundation Blog

1. Thoughts from GUADEC 2011
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... Mobile Stacks and You!) I tried to drive home the fact that mobile needs to become an important part of GNOME developer thinking, more so than now. To demonstrate this, I showed some statistics on the ...

2. Unstoppable forces and immovable objects
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... vendors need to work more closely with open source projects in order to compete, bringing more tightly-integrated stacks to market. Linaro is just the start of this. Nabeel's Impact of Mobile Open Operating ...

3. WIPJam @ LinuxTag
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... the discussion group members were all conscious that we're entering a new era where we don't just need to worry about cross platform development, but also cross form-factor and cross-category development. ...

4. BONDI Web SDK v1.0 released
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... your web widget using breakpoints without access to a BONDI-enabled handset. This doesn’t eliminate the need to test your app on real devices but it does mean that you can iron out most of the bugs earlier ...

5. Thoughts from Open Mobile Summit, London 2010
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... will bring different experiences to mobile with many having their first taste of the Internet via their mobile device. It also suggests that price points will need to be different and so will the way that ...

6. API Design Guidelines
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... they reside.  In order to understand how to design an API, you need to understand and be able to empathise with the mindset of the developers who will use those APIs.  This may be reasonably straightforward ...

7. The Cake is Not A Lie
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  We hear you. We know that the LiMo SDK has been a source of repeated frustration for our developer community. We understand that we need to be more forthcoming with information for you, our developer ...

8. Apple v HTC – Update
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... is obtained against one party this could obviate the need to sue others as those using similar technology may - to avoid being sued themselves - change their product/technology offerings (and/or seek to ...

9. The BONDI Approved Release 1.1 Introduces New and Exciting Features
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... should point out anything untoward in your javascript code. Helping you migrate smoothly to 1.1AR. The bad news is that tests and BONDI 1.1AR implementations still need to catch up! For example the SDK’s ...

10. Should We Necessarily Try to Emulate the iPhone?
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... to make money. The drive and eagerness to create  the one ‘special’ phone to compete with the iPhone is taking the focus away from differentiation and this exacerbated by the need to maintain a certain ...

11. Mobile World Congress 2010 – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
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... certainly need to take some drastic actions to cut down on the number of muggings and armed robbery that visitors are subject to in the streets of Barcelona throughout the duration of the Congress. Adios ...

12. The Art of Software Roadmapping
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... company where this negotiation is acrimonious and is conducted at full volume!). The marketing/requirements side often need to strike a balance between serving the company's existing market and customer ...

13. Avoiding the pitfalls of Open Source – Part 2
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... support, achieve commitments for defect analysis, fix bugs or set bug fix priorities. So my advice is simple - if you are delivering a commercial product or service then you need a simple maintenance plan ...

14. Avoiding the pitfalls of Open Source – Part 1
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... not enable you to deliver a finished product. Typical software development activities such as integration, regression testing or development of feature enhancements still need to be performed. Given that ...

15. First Impressions
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... more work to do than people to do it, but in LiMo spirits appear high and somehow people seem to get more done than seems possible to complete in a day.  I will certainly need to be running to keep up! ...

16. Opportunities for Local Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
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... opportunities for its broad member community spread across the world. What is becoming clear lately is that an Open Mobile Platform can provide the necessary flexibility to meet market specific needs. ...

17. LiMo, License Compliance, and the GPL
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... with them. We can only hope to see increased openness in the future. Is LiMo Foundation code Version 2 GPL and/or its derivatives GPL ?? I suspect it is... then where is the code ??? do you need to apply ...

18. Top 10 crimes of Developer Engagement
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... want me to hastily rush in and adopt your platform and start being productive. I need to take some time to reflect on my decision - time I can spend evaluating your competition. Just don't expect me to ...

19. BONDI widget tutorial featuring the LiMo SDK
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... telephone banking and secret pagan meetings of the occult. We essentially need two bits of functionality: Generate the random password - easy with some Javascript We need to be able to save the ...

20. Free Software vs Open Source? The Real Issue is Pragmatism
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... but not sufficient, to deal with these challenges; technology is needed to support decision making, process automation and governance of components over an application’s lifecycle.  We partner with LiMo ...