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We were pleased to see that Unlocking Android, for which Robi Sen and Jesse Dailey contributed to, just got slashdotted.

Senior Vice President and Managing Partner Robi Sen launched his blog series, Building Higher Performance RIAs for Smart Phones today on InsideRIA. The series will address the challenges of optimizing software for mobile platforms.

Today’s smart phones are not only used for making calls, taking pictures, and listening to music; now people are using their phones to do business, build presentations, make quick edits to important files, and even surf the web.

Yet contrary to what the commercials would have you believe, few smart phones provide a web experience equivalent even to a netbook. In large part this is because web application developers rarely consider the memory and CPU constraints of smart phones. At the same time, an increasing number of people are using their smart phones as a secondary or even primary method for accessing the web (http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/03/02/iphone-mobile-browser-share-67/). This becomes problematic because most websites are slow to download, hard to navigate for mobile users, and, most importantly, often take a long time to render, which is driving more and more mobile users away from the interactivity and power that Rich Internet Applications promise to deliver. The answer to this dilemma is that developers need to create RIAs, generally using AJAX, that are specifically designed and optimized for mobile phone users. In this series of blog posts, we are going to look at how to make applications that are not only rich and powerful, but respond quickly and offer users the experience they have come to expect from the web.

Leveraging its digital media and RIA expertise, Twin Technologies is creating web applications for the mobile platform.  These are optimized for use on mobile devices and offer the  functionality of desktop software and the agility of RIAs so users can access the material they need whenever they need it.

Charlie Collins, has setup a Google Code project with updated source for the Unlocking Android book here.  There are several really interesting projects in the source and all the code is running and working on the lattest 1.0 builds of the SDK.  Whats great is the authours will be actively updating the code and you can leave comments at the Manning forum if you find issues.

If you are trying to learn Flex you should check out Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source which was co-authored by Twin Technologies founder Ben Elmore.

We are always busy here at Twin Technologies even when we are not working helping our customers create some of the most innovative solutions to their problems we still find time to contribute back to the community. With that in mind I just wanted to announce that Ben Forta’s latest and greatest ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit (WACK) books are out. I was lucky that Twin Techs let me have the time to contribute to the 2^nd and 3^rd books and hopefully you will find their content as good as I did. Lots of great stuff in them and you can purchase them from the Amazon links below.