24 Hours of Windows Mobile Webcast Series Continues – Creating Adaptive Applications

It has been quite a while since I posted as the summer has just been crazy busy. With the start of a new season (today's the first full day of autumn), I'm now getting back to my more regular blogging schedule.

What better time is there to get back into blogging than when one has the opportunity for shameless self-promotion? J Tomorrow (Wednesday 24-September-2008), I'm presenting a webcast on Creating Adaptive Windows Mobile Applications.

As some of you may know, I've done webcasts and written papers on the topic of application adaptability in the past. The thing I find so interesting about the issue of application adaptability is how much solutions and techniques evolve. It's been nearly 3 years since I last did a Webcast on application adaptability and during that time a lot of new devices have been released making it a good time to revisit the topic.

Let me start by saying that this is not a talk about "Write Once Run Everywhere" … It is a talk about writing a single adaptable application that runs successfully across the entire family of Windows Mobile devices. "Write Once Run Anywhere" is really just marketing hype that many people in the mobile device space get excited about (I was once guilty of promoting the term myself).

Device adaptability is designing an application so that the application's core functionality is decoupled from the application's interaction with the device features. Adapting to differences in each device's user interface is part of the story but it's not the whole story. There's also the issue of adapting to differences in network capabilities, phone features, GPS access, and any other features that may vary between devices.

As mobile devices become increasingly rich, the differences between device features will become increasingly significant. Please join me on Wednesday (24-September-2008) as I talk about techniques for assuring that your application takes advantage of individual device capabilities while assuring that all users, even those with less capable devices, have the best possible application experience.