Nick Gauthier Nick Gauthier is a web freelancer focusing on Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. His experience spans from SQL to Sass and he always tests, all the time. He wrote “Recipes with Backbone” with Chris Strom and recently released his most recent eBook “Mobile Web Patterns with Backbone.js”. Aside from freelancing Nick runs B’More Awesome, a Baltimore-based web training organization, and he also co-founded Exobrain, an online mind-mapping tool.
The mobile web is a harsh environment: mobile processors are slower than their desktop counterparts; network connectivity is flaky; bandwidth is low; latency is high; and touchscreen keyboards are slow. The best mobile web applications are the ones that excel at handling these challenges.
In this article, we'll look at how to identify the tasks your users want to accomplish on a mobile... Read More
