Dewald Botha
open source web thoughts
architecture
the down-low on mobile device detection
Feb 19th
so – you say you want to detect which mobile devices hit your site? – in the past, this has been a bit of an issue, but lately – with really nice projects available out there such as WURFL or DeviceAtlas, you are able to concentrate harder on other issues, instead of having to write a complete library of your own.
so for this, i’ve decided on DeviceAtlas. just head on over to DeviceAtlas and open a developers account – you will get a one year developer’s license to play around to see how cool it is.
applying game theory patterns to development
Feb 11th
mobile – that damned device that makes our life so easy, yet sometimes so inheritely difficult.
as a developer, we kind of try and convince ourselves that developing for mobile and developing for a desktop browser is kind of the same thing. but we all know that this is a stalling technique for the inevitable, since invariably it becomes a whole different field of play.
every little feature you add, every little flow created and every branch of navigational hierarchy is a challenge on its own.
enter the game theory pattern
the great search balancing act
Jan 14th
it’s been a while since my last post – and as interests fade with time, others jump up faster than a beach ball at a nickelback concert.
so i’ve been looking into solr the last couple of days. solr is relatively new in the arena and probably outshined a bit in popularity by other search engines such as lucene and nutch. “but why solr?”, you may find yourself asking.
Well solr has a couple of tricks up the sleave – which is likely due to the fact that its a fresher version of the old, dare i call it legacy, search engines.
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