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Fragmentation Dilemma – What BlackBerry Models Should My App Support?
It’s no secret that BlackBerry is one of the most challenging mobile platforms to support. This is due, in part, to the vast number of BB models and OS’s currently deployed in the market. Our Flick Labs group currently has three puzzle apps on BlackBerry App World that have been downloaded 225,000 times in the...
Just How Much Stuff can your Mobile Salesperson Carry?!
iPad vs Sample Bag: Which Would Your Mobile Sales Team Choose? Does your company sell physical products through an outside sales force? If it does, chances are your sales folks are lugging around trunk-loads of product samples, catalogs, order sheets and demo gear to prospective customer sites. This is how outside sales have been done...
Microsoft Cloud VS. Amazon Cloud Part 1 – Introduction
Cloud computing is getting a lot of play recently but, for many, the cloud is still a bit, well, cloudy. In this blog I will put some parameters around what we call cloud, I will touch on three cloud service models and discuss 2 commercial implementations from Amazon and Microsoft. The National Institute for Standards...
Number Cruncher 2.0 for BlackBerry Beta is now Open
For those of you taking part in the Number Cruncher Beta, please report bugs, gripes, suggestions etc by commenting on this blog post. Thank you for participating in the Beta! Tweet This Post
BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) for Telemetry? Why Not?!
Flick Labs is Flick Software’s experimental playroom. It is where our engineers can take time out from their day jobs to experiment with new and interesting technologies. About a year and a half ago, the team started experimenting with a tile game platform that could be adapted for every major mobile platform. This project...
Ready, Design, Code – Flick adds UX Design Services
They say that an application, no matter how well it’s implemented, can only ever be as good as its design. Well, at Flick we buy into this mantra. Developers are very good at building to spec (ours are exceptional), but you really need to have a spec to ensure quality results. For years Flick...
The Mobile Message Queuing through Azure Platform (Part 2)
In the previous blog(http://flicksoftware.com/2011/07/the-mobile-message-queuing-through-azure-platform-1/), we looked at how to do mobile message queuing using Windows Azure Queue Service. In June, Microsoft released an update of Azure AppFabric which includes a service bus component(http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17691). In this blog, we will discuss how to use the service bus to do mobile message queuing. When I first looked at...
HTML5 vs Native Apps
Working for a software company that specializes in mobile development is fun these days; you end up working with lots of fancy devices and new technologies. But there are challenges too; this field is highly fragmented and very “fluid” with the mobile OS innovations occurring at a furious pace. We do a lot of research...
No SQL – AWS Simple DB
Simple DB is a distributed non-relational database part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS). It can be used in stand-alone mode or in conjunction with any other AWS services. Next paragraphs describe how to use the database with Visual Studio 2010 (VS 2008) and .NET/C#. Service Setup To create an AWS project in VS 2010...
The Mobile Message Queuing through Azure Platform (Part 1)
In the next two blogs, we are going to discuss how to do message queuing on mobile devices through the Azure platform. This post is about using the Azure Queue Service. The next one is about using Azure Service Bus Azure Storage has Queue Service for reliable, persistent messaging between Web and Worker role instances. There...
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