dotMobi – Small Business

Found a great blog entry about .mobi and small business. Great Stuff!

Now all I need is my own business! Ideas anyone?

I’ll tell you about some of the NON-mobi enabled web stes that bug me:

www.realestate.com.au The site isn’t too bad from a desktop computer, same as www.domain.com.au. They are both property web sites that have links and information to just about any property on the market in australia. Thing is, I tried to access these sites once upon a time from my phone, when I was out and about, It was a bad idea. No utility! A mobi interface would be great.

http://dotmobi.typepad.com/dotmobi/2008/04/how-small-busin.html

New Light

Further information has revealed that the wml standards are old! The web resources were not as accessible as they ought to be! The latest craze is xhtml mobile profile, which is a subset of xhtml that renders on your phone. Same language as the normal web! For scripting on your phone, ecmascript, like java script is available. I think javascript may be an implementation of ecma. anyway, phones are just about implementing javascript anyhow.

see mobile web on wiki

Further Setup

I had to add the following type handlers into my apache config and restart it:

# Adding support for mobile web pages
AddType text/vnd.wap.wml .wml
AddType application/vnd.wap.wmlc .wmlc
AddType text/vnd.wap.wmlscript .wmls
AddType application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc .wmlsc
AddType image/vnd.wap.wbmp .wbmp

Thanks to: http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/10825_1127221_3.

A note about SELinux Security! its a bit of a pain. If you are trying to read through to your user homes through apache you may need to authorize it for sel linux. I had wrong permissions set and needed to run:

/sbin/restorecon -R /………./public_html/

On my home directory/www folder

In the past sel linux has also stopped me from hosting ftp on my box, I can’t remember the fix for that, google is your friend.

Stuck in the Web!

I have had a it of a rough time finding the things I need to get started on any mobile phone development!

For starters this is my development machine:

AMD 3700 San Diego
Fedora Core Linux 8
2GB Ram

My mobile phone is a Sony Ericsson W910i it’s Hot!

First thing I wanted was a WAP browser so I did not have to fuss with my phone, to do some quick testing of works in progress. I managed to find an open source wap browser written in perl / Tk called wApua. It looks alright for the moment, haven’t done anything cool with it yet. To get it installed wasn’t too bad! I wasn’t in the mood for the usual linux installation process but it wasn’t too bad. The necessary step in the process is INSTALL CPAN! It is like your apt-get / yum installer for perl! So install cpan, hook into the cpan prompt and install your prerequisites from there! a lot easier, the ‘force install …’ option comes in handy too.

Now that I have a browser and I already have a apache I need to configure my apache for WAP!

Mobile Development

Wow! My first blog entry. This blog is going to hopefully get me motivated to work on some of my projects.

I’ve got a few ideas for some mobile web sites and web development. Only a few of my mates have mobile web but it is sooooo handy! I am with three and even though they apparently used to get really bad coverage for mobile broadband, it’s not too bad. So long as I try not to use it when I’m in the valley.

mobile web dev

Pretty good tutorial about WML – Wireless Markup Language
mobile phone emulator

Two of the other things that I’d like to do:

Get back into shape!! I lost 20kg last year through diet & exercise!!!!!! You can’t go wrong with old fashioned diet and exercise. This really means a lifestyle change for it to be long lasting! I have been slack with my workouts for the past 3 months. What a surprise that I’ve put on a little. However, I’m still at a net loss so I don’t mind that much.

One of the things that I would love to do is be a gym instructor. As in take classes for body pump / body attack! Those classes really motivated me and help me find the energy and motivation to get fit and enjoy doing it! They’re really fun!

And the third thing, I did say three right? Well anyway it’s to learn another language. I am thinking manderin chinese. That would be awesome!!!!!

Oh and a fourth thing, I think it would be good to read more: books! Real books! Wiki doesn’t count!