Chris Degiere and Associates

Well it’s been a busy few months with the new baby and new work taking most all of my time. How to quickly recap? How about a peek at my Delicious links or my Twitter stream.

Noteworthy Links

- Ext JS – Blog

http://extjs.com/blog/2008/03/31/implementation-spotlight-jama-contour/

- Ext + Java + Spring + DWR – Ext JS Forums

http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5586

- Firebug Console Object and API

http://getfirebug.com/console.html

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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:

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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 http://www.operamini.com/demo/ for example.

When developing locally it’s helpful to do some functional and visual design and layout testing before deploying.

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Some notable links from my delicious bookmarks related to things I’m currently working on:

- The ME Awards 2008 | London | Mobile Entertainment

http://www.mobile-ent.biz/me-awards

- WURFL

http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/

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Oh Firefox, how I love thee. If only you launched a little faster on OS X. But I can’t quit you. Why? Add-ons!

del.icio.us Bookmarks – tag your bookmarks, access them anywhere, share with your friends.
Firebug – indispensable inline DOM visualization, and much more.
Web Developer – a ton of handy page hacking tools.
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