Boardmad » iPhone http://www.boardmad.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:22:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Connecting the iPhone to Google’s App Engine http://www.boardmad.com/2009/02/04/connecting-the-iphone-to-googles-app-engine/ http://www.boardmad.com/2009/02/04/connecting-the-iphone-to-googles-app-engine/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:52:35 +0000 Scott Brown http://www.boardmad.com/?p=154

Absolutely loving this piece of work !

Shakespeare's Sonnets (summary view)

Then clicking on these summaries takes you to a detail view

Shakespeare's Sonnets (detailed view)

Not particularly groundbreaking you might think but the implications are significant…data (the bard’s poems in this case) reside in the Google App Engine ‘Cloud’ and the heavylifting gets done by a little python scripting to get the content down to the iPhone client.

For extreme programming or agile delivery prototyping the opportunities are considerable and not just limited to the iPhone client (which was picked in this instance) it could as easily have been leveraged in a silverlight RIA or an Adobe Air.

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“I laughed so much a little bit of wee came out”

  • No headphone jack
  • No bluetooth stereo
  • No iPhone-like touchscreen ability
  • No Client for sync’ing your calendar, contacts etc
  • Keyboard quoted as ‘mediocre’
  • Plastics and build quality reported as poor

Wow…what an own goal !

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