Paul Poutanen

While in Barcelona, I went to the Mobile Jam put on by Rudy de Waele and Caroline Lewko.

This was a great event. The mobile developer space is in a bad state.  Chaos in the industry is frustrating the developers. There was about an hour discussion on testing and the difficulties in doing this.

The developers have 4 major problems.

1. getting handsets (costly or difficult to get)
2. having to pay for subscriptions in North America or switching out of sims
3. Having to test in other countries to confirm the application will work (travel costs)
4. Tester Bias ( even an in company tester has bias and may not do as good a job testing)

I met a lot of great people at this event. Thanks to Rudy and Caroline for putting on such a great event. The event was at the Mystrands building. Betavine was a major sponsor as was Forum Nokia and Flickr

I will be attending the March 31 MobileJam at CTIA in Las Vegas. I would suggest if you are a developer you go as well.

I was in Barcelona for the 3GSM Mobile tradeshow and met Margaret Gold from www.betavine.net

“Betavine is an open community & resource website, created and managed by Vodafone Group R&D, whose mission is to support the wider development community in stimulating ideas, developing, testing and launching great new applications for mobile and Internet communications.”

Betavine is a social mobile developer website allowing developer to talk and discuss various things about the mobile space.

The mobile developer needs to be able to communicate with other developers. I like it.