S60 Open to new features

Just got this from a colleague:

I have figured out that even being closely involved with Mobile Web Server development, I every now and then need to turn back and start to read our user documentation: the User Guide, the Quick Guide, our book, developer documents at Forum Nokia, or the discussions. This is not because I couldn't use my mobile site, but just to figure out things like 'Oh yeah, that's how to do this in a different way" or "I didn't remember we had this possiblity too". This is somewhat common with this kind of technology with endless possibilities. So far it has been a pleasure to to browse through the manual just for fun, and find new non-used corners such as sharing material with albums, how to set the user rights, using WebDAV etc. So really my favourite channel has become RT FM.

Well said, I think. What's your favourite channel? Or would you like to see a completely new one?

-Jukka

Just a quick heads up: I set up a page on Facebook as well. So if you like us, come on in and become a fan!

-Jukka

Johan Wikman (father of the original Apache port for S60) writes:

I can now reveal that we at the CCNC conference in Las Vegas in January, 2008 will demonstrate and release what we call the PAMP stack.

PAMP stands for Personal Apache, MySQL, PHP, so yes, the full LAMP stack will be made available for S60 smart phones. In addition, there will be PHP extension modules that provide access to the core functionality of the phone. And on top of PAMP you can basically install any LAMP based content management system. For instance, Drupal can be installed off the shelf.

Yes, a fair amount of memory is needed and it's still pretty experimental stuff, but it runs quite nicely on E90.

Source: Mobile Web Server Discussion Board (post #5)

How cool is this?

-Jukka

If you go to my mobile site and check out Presence, you will notice we've added a Connection type entry in there (2G, 3G or WLAN). So this entry will definitely be available in our next beta release towards the end of the year.

Now, what would be your ideas for new items to have in there? I know some are pretty obvious choices such as location, but then what to do with that more specifically?

As always, any other ideas welcome too!

-Jukka

Here is a cool and yet practical application for a web server (like ours) running on the phone. With Contacts Browser Plugin you can make a call by simple clicking on a phone number in a web page. You can also add the number into your contacts or send a SMS to a number. All this without needing to touch the phone!

I just put this out in our site:

We will have a scheduled maintenance break at 13th November 2007, between 4:00 and 5:30am GMT.

During this time there will be breaks in mymobilesite.net services. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this might cause you.

By the way, if you haven't noticed we have an RSS feed also for our official news items: subscribe here.

-Jukka

This is certainly good news for anybody interested in the subject: a whole book dedicated to Nokia's Mobile Web Server technology. Here is a brief quote from the introduction:

This book was designed to fulfill a multitude of roles. First, it provides an introduction to the mobile Web server concept and the actual products currently available. This enables readers new to the topic to learn quickly and easily just what the whole thing is about. The introduction also prepares readers to follow the feature descriptions and create content for their own mobsites.

After covering the basics, book moves on to cover background on the technologies and concepts related to Mobile Web Server. In the final chapter the system's architecture is explained in full detail.

So, whether you just use it, want to tune it or develop on top of it - this book will have something for you! After checking it out please send in your comments, the authors are listening and happy to hear your thoughts.

Download Mobile Web Server Book (PDF file, 2.6M)

-Jukka