Mobile development tools are changing rapidly.
I had started work on comparing cross-platform mobile tools about a month
back. I had initially started with a list of 26 tools. Few got added on the
way.
However, what is most interesting is that in this short period of time one of
the tools (Open Plug) was discontinued. It was a Flash based tool. Since
Adobe decided to discontinue Flash for mobile in favor of HTML5 – they
really had no choice. Another tool (Pyxis Mobile) has been renamed as (Verivo
Software).
Coming back to mobile tool comparison – I had categorized the tools into
five categories (here is an overview). They are:
Mobile Web (JavaScript-CSS library), (here is the detail review) Visual Tool
(No access to Code), Hybrid App (Leverages embedded browser control), App
Generator (Native application for multiple platforms) and Game Builder.
In this post I give... (more)
Gartner says, in three years, mobile application development projects will
outnumber PC projects by 4-1 ratio and in four years, 50% of the people will
primarily access their emails from a mobile device. So, the necessity of
establishing a mobile channel for your customer is – well a no-brainer.
However, should you just build a mobile website or should you also invest in
building native applications is not easy to decide. There can be no doubt
that you need to have a website optimized for mobile devices. What is the
best way to build and maintain that website is not a simple deci... (more)
If you consider the CNN Money survey it is IBM which has beaten Microsoft by
a whisker. They did not consider Facebook as it is not publically traded.
If you listen to Eric Schmidt, it is off course Facebook. Off course anybody
from Google will consider Facebook in the list because Larry Page is turning
Google upside down to compete with Facebook.
However, if you go by what Jeff Bezos say then it has to be Microsoft.
According to him “…they’ve done a lot of innovative things, some of
which get overshadowed by their big existing businesses…”
So, who will it be – IBM, Facebook or Mi... (more)
Critics have always accused Microsoft of copying UI from Apple. As Chris
Madden in this interesting post point out that Apple fans state that:
“…every Mac OS feature and icon eventually shows up in Windows (and in
fairness many do)…”
First time Microsoft came up with a revolutionary UI design was when it
created the Ribbon. Like most revolutionary design it was thoroughly
criticized. Here is one such post – I am sure if you search you will find
many more.
It was different and if you keep all your previous learning aside, it was
much more intuitive. I think they did one big mista... (more)
Irrespective of what the Agile Manifesto says (“Customer Collaboration over
Contract Negotiation”) we do require a signed contract for ANY medium to
large software outsourcing engagements – and that includes agile projects.
Why? Because when there is a commercial arrangement between two parties for
delivery of any service where a significant amount of financial transaction
is involved, there needs to be a clear agreement on:
What is the service that is going to be delivered and what will be the
charges for those services? What happens when things go wrong? Do's and
Don’ts of how ... (more)
Udayan Banerjee is CTO at NIIT Technologies Ltd, an IT industry veteran with more than 30 years' experience. He blogs at 
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