Rob Tiffany | Mobile Strategist, Cloud Architect, Author, Speaker, Teacher, Coder, Advisor

Is it Time to Convert your SOA Infrastructure?

Rob Tiffany — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:52:48 +0000

Is your SOA infrastructure ready for mobile devices & unreliable wireless networks? It’s time to convert SOAP to REST, XML to JSON, uncompressed to compressed, uncached to cached. It’s time for MSOA.

Proximity Sensors and Bluetooth in Windows Phone 8

Rob Tiffany — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:58:50 +0000

During this video, Andy and I cover local communication with Windows Phone 8. After a Bluetooth overview, we show you how to use Bluetooth from an application, Near Field Communications (NFC), bump-to-connect, as well as the proximity API functionality. Be sure to check out previous Windows Phone 8 Jump Start videos from Rob and Andy: Introducing Windows Phone [...]

Facilitating BYOD at your Company

Rob Tiffany — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:36:19 +0000

I’m sure you’re inundated with a steady stream of news and information about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) component of the Consumerization of IT (CoIT) phenomenon on a weekly basis. Yes, a good percentage of your employees are walking into the office with a wide range of smartphones and tablets every day and they want to [...]

The Future of Enterprise Mobility – Live from the Mobile World Congress

Rob Tiffany — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:59:34 +0000

Learn about the future of Enterprise Mobility from me, Benjamin Robbins: Principal at Palador, Vishy Gopalakrishna: VP at SAP, and Ben Smith: Head of Mobile Product at Tribal Labs. We’re broadcasting live from Barcelona; the Mobile Capital of the World. https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/288/67769

Windows 8 Tablets Love your Existing Win32 Apps

Rob Tiffany — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:59:32 +0000

If you’re a CIO, IT Director or Manager that’s considering introducing Windows 8 Tablets into your enterprise, I do not want you to think that making this move requires you to rewrite your corporate apps. I repeat, the apps you currently use to run your business that are written in .NET, C++, Java, Delphi, VB6, [...]