Posts tagged “mobile”

Save RAM with mobile middleware

2008 October 07

A while back I wrote an article on how to set up a mobile site with Django. Currently I have a Slicehost account which includes 256MB of RAM. My resources are tight and I really dislike having another set of unnecessary Apache processes for a mobile site that, aside from different templates, is using the same code base. The solution is quite simple, write a middleware.

Going mobile

2008 February 18

Over the weekend, I decided to whip up a mobile version of Playground Blues. I walked into Broadway Cafe around 3pm on Saturday, and by 5:30, I had m.playgroundblues.com. Here's how it went down.

iPhone dead; $30 rental?

2007 August 15

This morning I woke up on my own. Normally I hear little crickets chirping around 7am. This would be my iPhone letting me know it's time to face the coming day. This morning, no crickets. At first I thought, maybe the battery was flat, but that's not possible. I charged it the day before and didn't put it through any rigorous use. iPhone CPR commences.

First impressions

2007 July 01

How does a machine have soul? We could try and answer by throwing around terms like usefulness, elegance and grace but all our attempts would sound prosaic next to the device I recently became acquainted with. Run and hide Crackberry, the iPhone is here