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Monday, March 29, 2010

Top reasons you should NOT join to the mobile team at Pyramid Consulting

1. There are many exciting things in our activities. You may DIE if you cannot control your emotions.
2. There’re many interesting things to learn. You will be overloaded with knowledge and new things – but useful for your work & your life.
3. Your friends may envy you because you can do many wonderful & crazy things.
4. We’re NOT colleague only. We’re brothers in a family. If you’re afraid of having more brothers, don’t join us.
5. We share all things together, all troubles & happiness, both in work & life. If you’re afraid of sharing, this team is not a good choice for you.
6. All members are courage men. Dare to talk, dare to do, dare to share.
7. You cannot stand some our bad habits for relaxing at the weekend: drink & eat dog meat, play some games – may be good (or bad) for your health.
8. If you can think of more reasons NOT to join into mobile team, please share to us.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Multiple phone application framework

Multiple phone application frameworks are: frameworks/solutions that allow developers to build applications to run on multi phone devices.

Recently, there' re some companies trying to build these solutions. This may make a new trend in developing application on mobile: build once, run every where (at least on most popular mobile platform) :)

Actually, this idea is good. However, it meets some troubles:
  • Mobile Platform + their SDKs are changes frequently. The multiple phones application frameworks cannot catch up with the speed of change of the platform + SDKs. Mobile developers prefer to have chance to use the latest APIs to make use of the strength of the newest platform.
  • On some popular mobile platforms (Apple, Android, BlackBerry), there' re always some private APIs - means some APIs are not official public. Developers must work on the real platform & SDK to use these APIs. The multiple phones application frameworks cannot wrap these APIs into their library because it needs to be more generic to be used in a common way.


Anyway, we should wait.

You can checkout a list of some open source multiple phone application frameworks here