Well what a conversation I think u2 has as much to do with mobile apps as sql server does. Completely divorced. As programmers we should take an interest in all sorts of technology , I don't call myself a picky i am a programmer, what language shall i use today ?
For mobile dev i think the way forward for many is html5 and css3 - there are many frameworks to make compelling ui's for the phone distributed by the browser, - sencha touch, jqtouch are two great examples. I have recently used sencha for a couple of apps, one on sql server the other for some system admin functions internally. It would be no harder to sit it in front of a u2 database as it would any other, so long as you have the web services in place. As for real apps - well yes i am in the process of writing a number of apps, android and windows phone are fairly easy as they are java and .net based so that comes naturally to me. Iphone a bit harder as you need to dev on a mac (urgghh) and it is in c, and it is a while since i did any c tbh. These are just hobby projects. I will let you into a secret here - i have dealt with a number of phone app development companies recently - they were all rubbish, none of them understood enterprise technology, software release cycles etc all the stuff we live and breathe as seasoned developers. But they are all writing stupid little apps that get downloaded by thousands of kids at 50p a go. So use your enormous brains and get out there and write some apps !! _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
