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Posted by:
Scott Willhite
8/25/2010 4:56 PM
 I got my wife an HTC EVO last weekend (way cool, by the way). Her first stop? The Android Market to load up on all of her favorite apps for getting information and staying connected. But why is that interesting?
From a technology standpoint, my wife is like many people who kind of skipped web surfing and moved right into the wide world of mobile computing. My 13 year old son is right behind her, although you now know ahead of him that he's getting my wife's old HTC Hero as a "back to school" gift! It'll be his first phone and he's likely never to experience a laptop at all in favor of a tablet device. Bottom line is... if there's not an app for it my wife, my son and likely many of your prospects may never see your offerings. Innovate or perish.
DotNetNuke has always been a destination for innovators. Open source, generously BSD licensed, highly extensible, solid ASP.Net platform, lots of resources both free and commercial, examples and helpful community members and the availability of professional and enterprise options... it's no wonder that more than 600,000 websites have chosen DotNetNuke as their platform for innovation. But what about mobile?
DotNetNuke has always been a "mobile friendly" platform! This month we've set out to both demonstrate that for you and help you do it for yourself. We've started conducting a bi-monthly "Hackathon" to showcase community innovation and the theme for this round is Mobile DotNetNuke! In addition to accepting community contributions, we're also launching a mobile application ourselves for keeping up with the DotNetNuke Community called DNN Pulse. Source code for this application and every Hackathon project is freely available under BSD license from the DotNetNuke Forge.
 DNN Pulse is being developed on the open source Appcelerator Titanium platform. Initially rolled out only for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone 7 versions are in progress and before long you'll be able to find these applications in their respective online marketplaces. On Friday you'll be able to take a look at all of the Hackathon entries, download and install them on your devices and vote for your favorite (there are prizes at stake)!
 We're excited about helping you innovate beyond the web and into mobile computing powered by DotNetNuke! In the coming months you can expect us to continue our community emphasis on mobile; see an increasing number of mobile projects in the DotNetNuke Forge; read many more blogs on web service deployment and mobile application development; and see your favorite DotNetNuke extensions become more mobile accessible.
Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7... Meet DotNetNuke? Oh, I see you've already met! We look forward to spending more time with you both!
5 comment(s) so far...
Re: Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7... Meet DotNetNuke!
Why not BlackBerry? Win Phone 7 has 0 market share and BlackBerry is bigger than Android and iPhone. RIM is a Canadian company, DNN has strong roots in Canada. DNN is widely used in the business community where BlackBerry is dominant. Most of my customers carry a Blackberry, very few on Android and iPhone. /rant
By Mike Cox on
8/26/2010 7:49 AM
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Re: Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7... Meet DotNetNuke!
Not trying to exclude anyone, Mike. And part of the beauty of open source is that if there is a Blackberry developer out there who would like to contribute a BB version, we'd be very happy to make it available and distribute it! The development platform we are using, Titanium, simply works out of the box for Android and iPhone. And as a Microsoft based project, we have a lot of "MVP" types who play with cutting edge MS technologies so that is a natural fit for us. We're also not developing this community app for the SymbianOS (Nokia) which, arguably, has a larger global install base than RIM, Android and iPhone combined. Then again, if there turned out to be a lot of demand for it, we'd consider it! The point of a Hackathon is to open people up to new possibilities and demonstrate potential. Maybe you can help wake up a couple of Blackberry developers to a whole new range of possibilities they may never have previously considered with DotNetNuke!
By Scott Willhite on
8/26/2010 8:15 AM
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Re: Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7... Meet DotNetNuke!
Unless I'm reading this wrong, it looks like support for Blackberry is already in the works:
www.appcelerator.com/2010/04/appcelerator-announces-beta-support-for-blackberry/
By Eli Facuseh on
10/15/2010 11:10 AM
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Re: Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7... Meet DotNetNuke!
Well Blackberry is a lot more used by Professionals, and in my opinion now that BES Express gives you a free & easy way to have a BES server, more companies will be more intrested! Anyway there are many benificts about using BB, but that would be another topic...
I do remember I was in a webinar just when this all started and when we voted for the most used devices, I'm pretty sure BB was on of the most used so... I think that should be taken in account, I think the most important are in fact BB and iPhone.
So the best thing would be to direct this things to iPhone and BB...
I do understand that Titanium makes it easer to devolep not only for iPhone but Android and others, so if you can why not...
I think that Titanium Platform was working on a Beta for Balckberry developmet!
In fact:
The Latest Titanium News
Apply for early access to the Blackberry Beta,
coming soon ( press release | signup )
Introducing Titanium Professional: premium support,
app analytics, and iPad/Blackberry beta access
So if your using this platform I guess you'll eventually end up doing apps for BB too :D
I sure hope so :)
By Miguel Clara on
10/15/2010 11:10 AM
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Re: Android, iPhone, Windows Phone 7... Meet DotNetNuke!
Hi Scott,
Somewhat off-topic (my aplogies) but I am wondering how you came to the decision to use a cross-compiler to deliver an iPhone app in light of Apple's recent changes to their developer license agreement prohibiting such activities.
I know Appcelerator's stance on the issue as of April (developer.appcelerator.com/blog/2010/04/update-on-apple-sdk-4-0-and-tos.html)
but at some point you guys had to decide that the benefit offset the risk of not having your app listed by Apple.
Being in the position of preparing to deliver a multi-platform mobile app, I (and I am sure, others) would find it very helpful to understand how an organization like DNN reached this decision.
If possible, thanks.
By Bryan Lowes on
10/15/2010 11:11 AM
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