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Confirmit Flex: A new development platform for creating applications

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By Real_Wire - Posted on 17 November 2009

OSLO, Norway and NEW YORK, NY – November 17, 2009: Confirmit, a leading global vendor of software for Customer Feedback, Employee Feedback and Market Research, has announced the creation of Confirmit Flex, an innovative new framework that will enable Confirmit, its customers and partners to quickly create new applications for the platform. The framework opens up the Confirmit platform to new developments that take advantage of the latest data collection methods, design technologies and reporting requirements.

Pat Molloy, Chief Strategy Officer at Confirmit explains: “Confirmit Flex is a huge new step for the platform. Our standard development cycle ensures the consistently high performance, security and scalability of the platform, but until now didn’t allow for the speed of change that customers sometimes demand. With Confirmit Flex, we’ve created a way of building fast, agile ‘speedboats’ to run alongside the ‘super tanker’ that is the Confirmit platform.”

Confirmit Flex has two applications running in beta testing, with many Confirmit customers taking advantage of the opportunity to get involved.

- iPhone Surveys: With an increasing number of people using iPhones to access the Web, researchers need to ensure that their surveys provide the same rich user experience in this environment as they do on a PC. When a survey is opened on an iPhone, the application automatically renders the survey into a format which takes advantage of the unique iPhone interface. This produces an excellent user experience, improving response rates and greater survey reach.

Cool App: Joomla client for iPhone

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By Bryan - Posted on 31 August 2009

Several weeks ago, I mentioned the Wordpress for BlackBerry client which allows you to submit articles to your WordPress blog remotely. Recently, CMS Report, was pointed to a Joomla! client for the iPhone, the J Admin Mobile! application.

Similar to Wordpress for BlackBerry, J Admin Mobile! (JAM!) allows you to manage many of the core features of your Joomla! 1.5 site remotely. We can only conclude that the smarter and more Web capable our phones become the more established this trend of moving the CMS client over to mobile devices will become.

JAM! 1.4.0 was recently submitted to the Apple App store with the developers expecting to see the updated version available soon. Some of the new features in JAM! 1.4.0 include:

  • Inserting images into articles
  • Adding users
  • Ability to change the user type (Registered, Author, etc)

Turning the iPhone into a Moodle Server

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By Bryan - Posted on 29 June 2009

Lots of people do interesting things once they've jail-breaked their iPhone. Dan Poltawski is no exception when he tries to turn his once client-only device into a Moodle Server.

Having ended up with a spare iPhone from a recent upgrade I decided to try jail-breaking the old one and see what software was out there away from the restrictions of the app store. I discovered that lighttpd, php and sqlite were all available from the software repositories for download - these three combined are enough to run a Moodle server. So out the window went cleaning my flat and sensible tasks - I had to make my phone into a Moodle server!

Once you start reading the article you will find that his first attempt at installing and using Moodle on his iPhone wasn't that successful. Still, Moodle on the iPhone is an interesting concept. To say the least, the concept is much more interesting than the YouTube video he provides of his experience. Dan, couldn't you at least added some background music or some audio of you swearing at your iPhone?

Looking at multitasking on the iPhone and Palm Pre

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By Bryan - Posted on 06 May 2009

I'm one of the unfortunate souls that is a Verizon customer.  I'm unfortunate in the sense that my cell phone company has been very slow in bringing modern SmartPhones with full browser and Wifi capability under their service plans.  Oh how I would love to have an iPhone or G1 Android in my hand, but neither AT&T nor T-Mobile includes big 'ol South Dakota in their service plans.  But someday things may change and I might get the iPhone or possibly even better, the Palm Pre (we have Spring here!).

I've been extremely interested in the Palm Pre since Palm first made their product announcements earlier this year.  How well the Palm Pre can compete with the Apple iPhone is up in the air, but I'm hopeful.  Today, I really enjoyed this article at CNET, Can a Palm Pre multitask better than an iPhone?

Ever since its January coming-out party at the Consumer Electronics Show, Palm has generated buzz for the Pre unlike any other phone released since Apple's iPhone arrived in June 2007 (that includes impressive phones such as Research in Motion's BlackBerry Bold and HTC's G1 Android phone.) The two phones will be forever compared--not just because of their consumer-oriented styles and emphasis on gesture-based user interfaces, but because of the very real enmity between the proud team that worked on Apple's historic iPhone breakthrough and the ex-Apple executives and engineers attempting to rebuild Palm.

While the iPhone has set the standard for future smartphones, Palm's WebOS delivers two important improvements that the iPhone can't yet match: true multitasking between applications, and a subtle notifications system that doesn't interrupt your train of thought. It does that while unveiling its own stamp on the multitouch user interface that Apple introduced to the masses with the iPhone and finding room for a slide-out hardware keyboard favored by CrackBerry addicts.

Be sure to read the rest of the article. Perhaps, someday Verizon will get smart and get into the game.  Meanwhile, I'll be weighing my options.