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08-26-2003, 07:32 PM
I am posting this for a friend of mine. I don't know anymore detail than what is provided here. The best way is for you to PM me with your email address and perhaps your website. I would forward the information to my friend so you can discuss this project in more details.
"Hello! I need the assistance of anyone in the group who may have developed a database-driven interface for handheld devices. As you've read here, we are now offering wireless access (free) at [a shopping district] and are just about to 'go public'. The service is accessible now but we're just tweaking at this point.
We have the laptop interfaces designed and functional but, through
miscommunication, the team did not design the accompanying handheld version. I need it done and I'd like to talk with anyone who has executed this.
We are not looking for anything fancy -- just the ability to allow the user
to see basic directory listings in a reasonable fashion (think of the Yahoo
mobile interface that shows up on a PDA). People will use it to find store,
restaurant and entertainment tenant listings and we would like a very small space to provide a sponsor logo in addition to the [shopping district's] Wireless logo. The data pulled into the device would be from existing tables located on a SQL server providing tenant name, location, and telephone number. If you know how to make the telephone number 'live' -- to interface so that if the person is using a phone device they could select it and it would dial the number, that would be a plus.
A bonus feature would be to provide the events calendar listings. Again,
these reside in the SQL database and have abbreviated description versions that are already feeding the laptop interface. This would consist of pulling the name of the event, the date, time, location and brief
description (2 sentences worth max).
We are using BrowserHawk to direct people to the interface that best matches their device. As some of you may know, our preferred development tool is ColdFusion (I can be moved otherwise by anyone with experience who could execute this quickly in a language of their choice). I have seen phone device execution using CFML/WML and know it's possible but anything makes it work will be fine.
We MUST design for Palm, Pocket PC and internet-enabled phone devices as well so the developers who are interested in this project MUST have experience beyond just one platform... "
"Hello! I need the assistance of anyone in the group who may have developed a database-driven interface for handheld devices. As you've read here, we are now offering wireless access (free) at [a shopping district] and are just about to 'go public'. The service is accessible now but we're just tweaking at this point.
We have the laptop interfaces designed and functional but, through
miscommunication, the team did not design the accompanying handheld version. I need it done and I'd like to talk with anyone who has executed this.
We are not looking for anything fancy -- just the ability to allow the user
to see basic directory listings in a reasonable fashion (think of the Yahoo
mobile interface that shows up on a PDA). People will use it to find store,
restaurant and entertainment tenant listings and we would like a very small space to provide a sponsor logo in addition to the [shopping district's] Wireless logo. The data pulled into the device would be from existing tables located on a SQL server providing tenant name, location, and telephone number. If you know how to make the telephone number 'live' -- to interface so that if the person is using a phone device they could select it and it would dial the number, that would be a plus.
A bonus feature would be to provide the events calendar listings. Again,
these reside in the SQL database and have abbreviated description versions that are already feeding the laptop interface. This would consist of pulling the name of the event, the date, time, location and brief
description (2 sentences worth max).
We are using BrowserHawk to direct people to the interface that best matches their device. As some of you may know, our preferred development tool is ColdFusion (I can be moved otherwise by anyone with experience who could execute this quickly in a language of their choice). I have seen phone device execution using CFML/WML and know it's possible but anything makes it work will be fine.
We MUST design for Palm, Pocket PC and internet-enabled phone devices as well so the developers who are interested in this project MUST have experience beyond just one platform... "