I was very excited to receive my copy of Spring Roo in Action. This is a fairly recent MEAP offering from Manning and is scheduled to be ready by the end of this year (2011). A 500-page quick-start guide, and IMHO, the missing manual for anyone interested in learning agile and rapid prototyping using Spring [...]
Image via Wikipedia This post follows my earlier review of the first six chapters of “Location Aware Applications”. I recently received an update containing two new chapters covering topics on connectivity issues and how to monetize your LBS applications. Chapter 7 briefly looks at issues affecting mobile devices that affect connectivity, e.g. acquisition rate of [...]
After weeks of deliberation, I finally decided to abandon the Drupal platform and go with a framework that is more niche and simpler to maintain. Drupal is an excellent platform for managing content, no doubt about that. However, it had more features than I needed, more time needed to maintain. Here’s a big plus with [...]