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BusinessWire: Press release for the book Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building Javascript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-Based Applications for iPhone, Android, Palm Pre, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60

New Book Teaches the Ins and Outs of Smartphone Development !

Medio Architect and Developer Shares Insights on Standards-Based Mobile Web Development

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Even with the excitement about mobile technology, smartphones, and applications, the need to train the next generation of programmers to take maximum advantage of new technologies is often overlooked. Mobile technology and development is similar to Web 2.0 development, however, there are enough differences and nuances by device, operating system, and form factor that even veteran web developers can be surprised by mobile web development’s complexity. A new book written by Gail Frederick and Rajesh Lai perfectly addresses this gap in the market by explaining the fundamentals of mobile web development. Although the book is written primarily for developers that are “dipping their toes” into mobile technology for the first time, expert practitioners will appreciate the detailed instruction for reference and review.

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Buy the Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Building Javascript, CSS, HTML and Ajax-Based Applications Book from Amazon.com

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Below is the detail from Amazon.com

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Part 1: Getting Started with Mobile Web Development

1. Introduction to Mobile Web Development
   Introduces the mobile industry, mobile users, and the Mobile Web.


2. Set Up Your Mobile Development Environment
   Prepares for Mobile Web development by setting up your desktop and server environment.

Part 2: The Syntax of the Mobile Web

3. Markup Languages for Mobile Web Development
   Teaches the markup and style languages of the Mobile Web: HTML, XHTML, XHTML-MP, WML, CSS2, Wireless CSS and CSS Mobile Profile.


4. Device Awareness and Content Adaptation
   Uses the WURFL and DeviceAtlas mobile device databases to identify web traffic from
   
   mobile phones and adapt mobile markup to target specific mobile devices and browsers.


5. Adding Interactivity with JavaScript and AJAX
   Enriches a Mobile Web site with interactivity powered by mobile JavaScript and AJAX.

Part 3: Advanced Mobile Web Development Techniques

6. Mobile Web Design and Usability (authored by Rajesh Lal)
   Improves the design and usability of your Mobile Web pages to help the mobile user easily and rapidly achieve their goals.


7. Enhancing Mobile Web Pages for Smartphone Browsers
   Investigates the advanced features of smartphone browsers, including iPhone, Android, Palm webOS, BlackBerry, Nokia Series 60, Opera Mobile, and Windows Mobile.

Part 4: Deploying into the Mobile Ecosystem

8. Optimizing Mobile Web Pages
   Optimizes a Mobile Web page by compressing document size, reducing web server transactions, and coercing
   
   mobile browsers into caching Mobile Web content.


9. Validating Mobile Markup
   Validates mobile markup syntax, styles, and overall site readiness using validation services from W3C, dotMobi and other organizations.


10. Testing a Mobile Web Site
    Tests a Mobile Web site using mobile browser emulators and actual mobile devices.


11. Deploying a Mobile Web Site
    Releases a Mobile Web site into the ecosystem, distinguishes between Desktop and Mobile Web traffic and acquires mobile traffic using on-page and off-page mobile SEO.


12. How to Play Well in the Mobile Ecosystem
    Identifies and adapts to requests from transcoders. Defensively fortifies a Mobile Web site to discourage transcoding of mobile markup.


13. The Future of the Mobile Web
    Explores industry projections and expert opinions about the future of the Mobile Web.

Part 5: Appendices

1. Sample User-Agents for Mobile Devices
   Provides user-agents from smartphone and featurephone mobile devices.


2. Sample HTTP Requests from Mobile Devices
   Provides HTTP request headers from smartphone and featurephone mobile devices.


3. Glossary
   Definitions for mobile industry acronyms, jargon and technical terms.


4. Case Study for Smartphone Browser Caching
   Examines the actual caching and concurrency behavior in smartphone browsers.

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Mobile Widgets are the latest trend on mobile devices, Here is the Presentation I gave on designing Mobile Widgets at Maemo Summit, Amsterdam Netherlands, 11th October 2009

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