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WURFL and Google Glass

Jul 2nd, 2013

Google Glass has received quite a lot of media attention lately.

Initially, we had gathered the information that the new tool did not come with a browser. But someone in Google had tipped us that this would change soon.

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Couple of Things (Smashing Magazine and Google Analytics)

May 14th, 2013

“The lack of money is the root of all evil”. — Mark Twain

Haven’t blogged in a while. Will two halves of a piece of news make a full blog post?  Let’s see.

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You are not a man until…(WURFL InFuze and Raspberry PI)

Mar 20th, 2013

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Pretty much everyone must have heard several instances of the “you are not a man until…” sentence followed by some more or less moronic action.

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WURFL and Responsive Web Design (RWD)

Feb 19th, 2013

Pretend for a moment that you’re working as a front-end developer.
(If you’re already a front-end developer, well, pretend you’re also wearing a pirate hat.)
— Ethan Marcotte, Responsive Web Design, page 17

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Dealing with the WURFL Manager Object in ASP.NET

Jan 23rd, 2013

WURFL is a cross-platform API available for a variety of platforms and languages. Any programmatic access to the data that WURFL holds passes through the WURFL manager object. In the end, using the WURFL API is quite easy; more interestingly, it requires the same approach and development pattern regardless of the language and platform you’re using.

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Using the WURFL API with Microsoft WebPages for Mobile Device Detection

Dec 17th, 2012

Dear WURFL User, it is with great pleasure that I announce that Dino Esposito, Dino for friends, is now officially our WURFL Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Technologies.

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Perl and WURFL: There is only one way to do it right

Oct 15th, 2012

I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
Perl (Martin Lewis Perl)

November 5, 2012, IMPORTANT UPDATE: Perl Cloud Clients now Available in CPAN too!

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HTTP and Mobile: The Missing Header

Oct 2nd, 2012

I cannot count the times I heard someone wonder why on earth device manufacturers never added an HTTP header that would make it obvious that an HTTP request is coming from a mobile device. I typically had witty answers to that question. ‘The header existed. It was called UAProf. Apple killed it’.

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BDConf and Exposing WURFL Capabilities to JavaScript

Sep 28th, 2012

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
– Leonardo Da Vinci (disputed)

Important Note (April 2014): If you are interested in using WURFL from Javascript, you may want to check out WURFL.io (or this blog post).

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WURFL in the Cloud with Node.js

Sep 16th, 2012

JavaScript was my first love, but will it be my last?
in this world of trouble, we put Node.js to the test.

Adapted from a popular song by John Miles

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