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The Super OS – Internet

| Filed under Cloud Mobile Mobile Web Search Web

Note: this is one of discussion questions from the programme I am current learning. This is a very interesting topic, hence I think probably can post here to record my current thoughts.

In Brookshear’s book, the definition of an operating system is “software that controls the overall operation of a computer” (Brookshear, 2008, p.122).If we strictly follow this definition, we cannot simply agree on the “Super Net OS”. But from a different perspective, I will consider the internet itself as an operating system which provides the operations to data and services via the internet. The “Super OS” is the combination of internet and its infrastructure, protocols, web, server, client, and other technologies.

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Windows Phone 7, Hammock, OAuth and Sina Weibo’s API

| Filed under Mobile Programming

OK, I am developing a windows phone 7 app for Sina Weibo. I just simply don’t like the basic authorisation… And OAuth is much better since once you get the access token, you can use it all the time rather than always passing the username and password around. though there are already two Sina Weibo client apps (1 free and 1 is asking for $0.99) in marketplace, my friend Remy and I still want to develop a new app which will be free and open source.

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Windows Phone Marketplace Tip for 5.6 Technical Support Information

| Filed under Mobile Programming

OK, it turns out that Microsoft is forcing this policy from the new year, I mean from 2011. My little simple free app’s update was failed the certification at 5.6, which simply requires you to expose your app’s version number and your contact information to end users. So if your app has just single page, probably just put it in some corner and set the opacity lower. If you have multiple pages, adding an about page will be a good idea.

So how about contact info? I tried to add my twitter link to the app, and it just works. From some internal discussion, I would think following information will be OK (not guaranteed…) since in basic, it just requires you to provide a contact approach for end user to contact/feedback to you.

  • twitter link
  • a webpage/website
  • embedded contact form page
  • email
  • anything else can find you…

Hope this helps…

Is Windows Phone 7 Series the One I Expect?

| Filed under Mobile

Microsoft announced WP7 series on WMC2010. (Announce video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-HtdW03Zs, pretty cool!) And there are lots of people are talking about it. But what I expect of a mobile OS? I write this down 9 months ago:

1. Small/Micro kernel.
2. Powerful UI.
3. Simple Application development.

And what I can see now is it really has an innovative UI and I like it. The kernel should be neat althought it definitely should be based on Win CE (guess). So what I really want to know is how to develop app based on this new UI. It should bring a tough switch… But let’s check it out on MIX10…

Widgets on Windows Mobile

| Filed under Mobile

Microsoft just released the new mobile 6.5 developer toolkit, and you can get it from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e

Normally you only can develop application for windows mobile via C/C++ or .Net CF. But as to me, I pretty hope to use more simple stuff to build app, like html and javascript, which means widget: http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets/. Like Opera widget, provides this dev feature, but it’s not Windows Mobile nature…

Great thing is coming, Windows Mobile 6.5 now supports the widget although I’m still hoping a better app list interface! Check out this about building widget on WM6.5, http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2009/06/04/getting-started-with-widgets-on-windows-mobile-6-5.aspx. Going to try creating something. :)