Author Archives: mike

A European living in Finland who occasionally makes technology “Do Stuff”(TM)

Planing for MDC3 has started

We have already started to plan for MobileDevCamp3, it will be on 26th Febuary 2011. You can already sign up on the Facebook event here.

2010 Agenda

In the future we will have more devices and more platforms that we have to develop mobile services for. Cross platform development is one of the key drivers when developing mobile services in the future. With the iPhone we have seen the number of mobile applications explode. Will the future of mobile internet be inside [...]

2010 Speakers

Sami Viitanen Sami works at Forum Nokia as a technical consultant. Currently his main tasks are around technical evangelism related to Nokia’s key developer offerings of technologies like Qt and Web Runtime, and technical support for Forum Nokia developer partners. Previously Sami has worked in the consultancy team of Digia, providing technical training and consulting [...]

2010 Competitions

You have 48 hours to build an application for one of the four platforms; Nokia – Qt, Symbian & Maemo Microsoft Android iPhone The folks over at Nokia have “narrowed” their category down a little, in that the application must; use the Qt Module QNetwork, must have a social web integration and be based around [...]

so how did we do on the day?

thanks to all the sponsors for making the event possible. A big thank you also to the presenters, panelists, workshop room hosts and competition judges. Now, let us know in the comments what was good and what we could do better.

See you tomorrow at Arcarda

So with under 24 hours to go we are all ready for you. Check the Venue page for how to get to Arcada (its a big building, and we will have posters/signs to help you find the entrance) Oh and one small change, Göran Ericsson had a last minute emergency so his college Vladimir Katardiev [...]

Couple of hints for on the day

Use the tag #mdchel for twitter or send messages to @mobiledevcampfi and we will pick them up. For on the day, we have teamed up with the folks from FreeJamTV to get live streaming of the main stage on the day. Check FreeJam.TV/live for the feed Oh, and of course the Nokia folks are hanging [...]

you 48hours, starting…

NOW! So, the rules of the competition are; You have 48 hours to build an application for one of the four platforms; Nokia – Qt, Symbian & Maemo Microsoft Android iPhone The folks over at Nokia have “narrowed” their category down a little, in that the application must; use the Qt Module QNetwork, must have [...]

Some interesting links post MWC

Now that Mobile World Congress is over, a couple of links around some interesting points over the last few days. But first, 20 key trends from Mobile World Congress 2010 oh, and some interesting Finnish companies were there as well Tomi Ahonen gave a short post (for once) on the top 25 mobile companies by [...]

Getting Started with Android

And the final post in the series (for completeness) covers Android. The main site is at Developer.android.com. You can pull the SDK from here (please do this before coming to lighten the load on the network at the event!) A good place to ask questions is on StackOverflow, but it is probably wise to at [...]