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Sam Gentile recently presented at
Boston
’s Code Camp II: http://samgentile.com/blog/archive/2004/10/17/12235.aspx.
Most importantly he posted slides to the best Mobile Dev Presentation I have seen
yet – even though I have only read the slides, most of them make a lot of sense and
summarize important ground.
Very soon I may just email Sam and ask very politely if he will permit some of the
material to be re-used in
Atlanta
’s first Mobile Dev SIG meeting.
Over the last couple of weeks I have been scouring the web for information on Mobile
Development. There is a lot of interest, but the space seems littered with blogs of
people who were once very enthusiastic, but suddenly went silent. Can one assume they
found non-mobile related work, and feeding one’s family wins over love for small shiny
devices?
My own view is that more large companies will soon start integrating mobile
devices with their
Enterprise
systems. WeRock247 (http://www.learn247.net/werock247/)
demonstrates the amalgamation of many Microsoft technologies to integrate many classic
business problems. It does what many companies don’t yet achieve (certainly not seamlessly):
taking the software to remote information workers such as warehouse pickers and delivery
guys. I am leaning towards presenting their ideas at our Mobile SIG. There should
be much excitement to come in this arena, take RFID (ignore privacy issues for now)
– just think how it will improve supply chain management. Today tech firms are struggling
with where to locate RFID readers and the timing of synchronizations; what if every
employee carried a
Mobile
device that included such a reader? Using a little P2P magic (like FedEx/UPS do) and
the central server should have a good real-time picture of where the
company’s inventory is. Maybe I read too much SciFi as a child, but I’m on this bus.
