Software Engineering and Data Science
Competitive research and traffic analysis is an important part of launching a new site or web app.
I did a quick study that uses source code search sites as the subject for comparison. Here I highlight some key metrics from these two Firefox add-ons:
There are a number of online emulators available to test your mobile web applications once they are deployed. Opera Mini has an online demo at www.operamini.com/demo/ for example.
When developing locally it’s helpful to do some functional and visual design and layout testing before deploying.
Some notable links from my delicious bookmarks related to things I’m currently working on:
– The ME Awards 2008 | London | Mobile Entertainment
www.mobile-ent.biz/me-awards
– WURFL
wurfl.sourceforge.net/
A great visual Map of the Cloud Computing/SaaS/PaaS Markets:
Here’s two trend analysis examples from two different sources that I use regularly.
The first is based on job posting keywords which is useful to gauge how marketable your skill set is or how likely you are to find staff given the skills you require. Here’s a simple example. Go Java!
via: indeed.com