Comments for John Boxall

Comment on Notes from “Mobile Device Detection” by Idel

Idel — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:21:01 +0000

I have published the new version of Apache Mobile Filter, now the filter is give to you the information of capabilities as apache environment.
Now you can develope in any language (php,jsp, ruby etc.) and have the information of mobile capability.

Comment on Notes from “Mobile Device Detection” by Mikko Ohtamaa

Mikko Ohtamaa — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:25:02 +0000

Hey,

I just came across your Bloom project in Google Code. We have been cooking something similar here far back Finland. Please check at least this project:

http://code.google.com/p/mobilesniffer/

It’s related to user agent stuff - I hope you could take a look on it and see whether we could join our genious billionaire playboy forces.

Comment on Using Jquery to display your GitHub repos by John

John — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:19:15 +0000

Thanks for the excellent article Josh! Check out Josh’s full reasoning here:
http://www.learningjquery.com/2009/03/43439-reasons-to-use-append-correctly/comment-page-1#comment-71018

Without knowledge of JQuery’s internal working it’s very easy to write inefficient code.

John Resig also had excellent post about profiling JS functions using FireUnit:
http://ejohn.org/blog/function-call-profiling/

Comment on Using Jquery to display your GitHub repos by Josh Powell

Josh Powell — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:03:33 +0000

Thanks John, you made my day One thing I learned after writing the article, and added in the first comment, was that it is much quicker to append a single node with a lot of children then it is to append a bunch of nodes. So in your example above, if you could find a way to append the complete list instead of the list items it would be measurably quicker. Possibly use replaceWith() or replaceAll() instead of append.

Comment on Device Atlas API and Django-Admob by john

john — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:00:32 +0000

@versae DeviceAtlas has had a Python API for some time though 2.3 compatibility is still in the works:
http://deviceatlas.com/downloads/beta

Thanks for the link to the W3C simple API - I find it interesting that these methods appear verbatim in the original Device Atlas API. Most (web) programmers are looking for higher level functionality from their device library - for example - what kind of video is optimal to serve to this phone? While you can get this information by querying a number of properties on WURFL or Device Atlas, an ideal library would present these most common use cases as higher level functions!

Cheers,

John

Comment on Device Atlas API and Django-Admob by versae

versae — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:44:39 +0000

I never knew that there was DeviceAtlas API for Django, so far I have been using WURFL in djangobile (http://code.google.com/p/djangobile/), but I would like DeviceAtlas formed part of procces of device detection.
Although the ideal would be to implement the interface proposed by the W3C (http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-DDR-Simple-API-20080917/).