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We’ve assembled a panel of local developers, experts and enthusiasts to participate in a conversation about several topics of interest in the mobile business. Chris Howay, Valiant Media Ean Schuessler, Brainfood Miguel Razo, UT Dallas Todd Marshall, Sungard Food and refreshments are being generously provided by SunGard Global Services. Venue is graciously hosted by TechWildcatters [...]

Ingredients for Mobile Success You’ve landed a big mobile project. Great! Now what? Let’s get down to business baking up a great mobile experience. Join Oven Bits’ Chris and John as they share their process for designing, building and deploying mobile apps. Topics include selecting the best platform for the job, designing a seamless mobile [...]

Use Web Skills to Build Mobile Apps Yes it’s true. It has been a couple of months since we’ve had a DalMob Conclave and so this month we’re partnering up with Refresh Dallas to get back in the groove of things. We’ll be posting future upcoming speakers and events shortly. Matt Baxter and Nathan Smith [...]

Automated Testing of Mobile Apps Functional Testing in a Continuous Integration Pipeline Kris Gonzales will be demonstrating how to extend a continuous integration server to execute automated functional testing of mobile apps, so that we can detect other defects that are not compile time errors (e.g. my button takes me to the wrong screen now). [...]

UX Kick Start: Start your mobile project off on the right foot Today’s app markets are crowded with several competitors in each niche. To stand out from the crowd you’ll need to design and execute a compelling and unique experience for your users. Mark Kraemer, Credera’s UX Practice Senior Manager, will discuss concrete ways to [...]

Calvin Carter, founder and president of Bottle Rocket Apps, will cover the major decisions and most common pitfalls encountered when developing high-performance mobile applications. He’ll go over the best practices, tools and processes that lead to the finished product. Food and refreshments are being generously provided by SunGard Global Services. Venue is graciously hosted by [...]

We’ll be having an open discussion around Mobile Web. To start the evening, Ean Schussler from Brainfood, will be presenting a demo on how to build an app for 5 mobile platforms in 30 minutes. He will be using PhoneGap, Sencha Touch and custom JSON feed built on top of the Dalmob Word Press instance. [...]

Michael Perry, a Window Phone Developer, will present a technical and design overview of the Windows Phone platform. He’ll spend some time showing off Expression Blend, the design tool, and technical features that are unique to the platform. Features like data binding, the visual state manager for animations and live tiles. Michael will work these [...]

We’ll be hosting our first Open Discussion night. You will have the opportunity to ask the group or individuals anything and open the door for further discussion. This conclave will be informal and relaxed. Food and refreshments are being generously provided by SunGard Global Services. Venue is graciously hosted by TechWildcatters in the Tech Church. [...]

Doug Russel and Luke Wallace, from Bottle Rocket Apps, will be presenting on the current state of Accessibility on iOS and Android. Their presentation and sample code will highlight what’s normal, what’s possible and the kinds of concepts to keep in mind when designing for low vision users. Food and refreshments are being generously provided [...]

James Spargo, a recent Graduate of UTA, will be presenting his Masters Thesis on Location Based Privacy for the mobile phone end users. An incredible amount of personal information can be determined by a users location, not just where you’ve been but who you are and more. This information can be used for both good [...]

Michael Griffith, Creative Director with Bottle Rocket Apps, will be sharing high-level mobile design considerations that will get you and your App going in the right direction. Designing for mobile is different than designing for web. Designing for iPhone is different than designing for iPad. Designing for iPad is different than designing for Xoom. So [...]

Ean Schuessler of Brainfood will be presenting the Disturbathon Invite System. It’s a java based mash-up of texting, AJAX and the Asterisk PC-PBX platform. While not specifically a “mobile” app in the conventional sense, this system allows any touch tone phone to control part of a multimedia invitation experience. Part art piece, part technology experiment, [...]

On Tuesday, March 1st 2011, Drew Wimpy, from Nextpressions, will be demonstrating how he created an autocomplete Text Field for the iPhone. As you begin typing a Table View is presented with a list of choices to complete your text entry. Please feel free to pass this invite on to anyone else that would have [...]

The next Dallas Mobile Development Users Group is approaching quickly and I wanted to give you a heads up of what to expect. On Tuesday, February 1st 2011, Kris Gonzalez will be demonstrating how to use an ordinary cell phone to build a simple SMS-based query service. A Motorola Razr, with a T-Mobile SIM, will [...]

I am reaching out to everyone to see if there is an interest in starting a Dallas based Mobile Development users group. Over the last year or so, I have meet up with several other fellow developers, here and there, to talk shop and compare notes on current and ongoing development. I have found our [...]

The next Dallas Mobile Development Users Group is just around the corner and I wanted let everyone what to expect. I know it’s right after the holidays, but we wanted to keep the ball rolling and not let the group fall into the “We’ll do it next month” design pattern. (Drum Fill, Please) At the [...]