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I recently had the opportunity to put together some research for a customer who has been interested in the MEAP (Mobile Enterprise Application Platform) space. My premise is that the market has become flooded with MEAPs (Mobile Enterprise Application Platforms, as coined by Gartner), yet most of them are fundamentally taking organizations and developers down [...]
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Over the past few months I’ve been fortunate to have worked with several customers creating Mobile Web applications for different devices. These have included an iPad based Mobile Web app for a healthcare provider, a cross-platform Mobile Web app for a commercial real estate broker, and an Android tablet solution to allow scientists to research [...]
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Are you passionate about developing applications for mobile devices? Do you have deep experience with either iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, or Mobile Web? Would you like to be involved in some of the coolest mobile projects for organizations? If the answer to the above is yes, we’d love to hear from you. We are [...]
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A couple of my previous blog posts have shown how AppFabric ACS (Access Control Service) can be used as part of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS to enable federated authentication with Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and other providers. I was recently asked whether it’s possible to extract an OAuth token as part of the ACS [...]
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At the end of August, Microsoft published the Windows Azure Toolkit for Android. At Neudesic, the partner behind developing the both toolkits for iOS and Android, we’ve been working with customers that use the toolkit to connect mobile applications to the cloud. One of the recent requests however has been to provide a walkthrough of [...]
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In late July, Microsoft announced availability of a new build of Mango, build 7712 – also commonly known as the RC Build. Given that we are close to RTM, yet it may still take carriers some time before deploying Mango to your device, you might be itching to try out the new bits. If you [...]
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In my last post, I showed how to implement authentication using Google, Facebook, etc. for your iOS application – using the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS. This works well for iPhone applications written in Objective C, but what if you are developing a Web based mobile applications that span multiple platforms? Given that everything is [...]
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Last week, Microsoft released v1.2 of the Windows Azure Toolkit for iOS. As development partner for the toolkit, Neudesic has been working with several customers on implementing ACS for iPhone and iPad applications. Due to popular demand, I wanted to share a short overview of how simple it is to get this up and working [...]
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Following a few recent presentations, I’ve had a couple of people ask how I run Visual Studio on the Mac. You’ll be sad to hear that I don’t have a special version of Visual Studio for Mac OSX – instead I am using VMWare Fusion 3.1 to run a copy of Windows 7 in a [...]
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Additional thanks to those who attended my session this morning (DPR303 – Developing Enterprise-Grade Mobile Applications). I’ve uploaded the deck to SlideShare – you can find it at the bottom of this post.
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