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Testing mobile websites with Firefox Mobile for PC (Fennec desktop)

Posted on July 8, 2011

Firefox Mobile (Fennec) has also desktop builds. They are very useful for mobile web site testing as the browser is fast, has real keyboard and is only one mouse click away.

Here are instructions how to run Firefox Mobile on Ubuntu Linux (tested on 32-bit Ubuntu 10.10)

wget http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/releases/latest/linux-i686/fennec-5.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
tar -xjf fennec-5.0.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2
cd fennec
./fennec

.. and thats all you need. It works out of the box! 400x times faster than using Android emulator browser.

There are also OSX and Windows builds available.

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Web and Mobile 1.0.3 released, Plone 4.1 compatible

Posted on June 2, 2011

I just released Web and Mobile 1.0.3. It has some minor compatibility fixes for Plone 4.1 (in fact there was nothing broken besides unit tests).

Please update your buildout pindowns for Dexterity 1.0:

extends =

http://dist.plone.org/release/4.1rc2/versions.cfg

http://good-py.appspot.com/release/dexterity/1.0?plone=4.1rc2

Please report all the issues in the issue tracker.

 

 

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Finding an application download link for App Store or Android Market

Posted on January 28, 2011

For App Store, search your application in itunes.apple.com and copy-paste View in iTunes link.

For Android, search for your application in Android Pit and copy-paste Android Market Link. Android Pit also provides QR code (2D barcode) for your application.

Note that URL shorteners (bit.ly) do not like market:// protocol, so you might need to use alternative http://market.android.com notation. This, however, prompts a dialog in the device “Would you like to open this URL in a browser or in Market Place?”

More info

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Vote Mr. Moo for Ploneconf2010 speaker and see how get free beers

Posted on September 15, 2010

I am running for a speaker seat in Plone Conference 2010. As a strategy to gain this glamored position I have submitted several topics which might interest you.

Vote here.

  • Backpacking with Plone: how our team has redefined North Lapland travel industry with Plone sites. I promise to bring a genuine Lapland snowball with me and toss it to the first person asking a question.
  • Mad about mobile: How to turn your Plone web site to a mobile site in 15 minutes (* the actual time varies on the status of PyPi and buildouting speed). If you can’t afford iPhone 4 yet, I promise the site will be 100% functional on a 40$ budget phones also.
  • Culture of good documentation: Plone is hated because newcomers cannot grasp how to customize it. I belive this is an attitude problem, not with the newcomers, but with module authors. This manual is now 86k words. If we can make it to go up to 100k words in the conference I’ll buy a beer everyone who participates the effort.
  • The world outside Plone: Why there exist 13 600 000 Joomla! sites, but 20 000 Plone sites? Why single Joomla! freelancer-entrepreneur can make 250k€ a year alone? How we could make Plone more succesfully by learning what others are doing? Our team has some cross-system experience and we want to give you the best bits what others are doing right (and Plone might be doing wrong).

Vote here in the case you missed the link above.

Ps. If I am too boring I promise I will do only PHP/Joomla! jobs in the future, so vote me now or I will forever hold my peace :<

because Plone community has had problems with the attitude

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