Reed Shilts

Reed Shilts' Blog People have been asking again about the PocketBuilder roadmap and its state... (a) PocketBuilder 2.0.4 - EBF #5 is wending its way through all the paperwork to be released onto the download site. (b) PocketBuilder 2.1 - a major update (but not requiring a migration) will soon be looking for some beta testers.  I was hoping to start the beta program right after Easter, but PB-11 and UL-10 kept sucking time away from PocketBuilder-centric activities. Official Windows Mobile 6 supportLOADS of SCC updates (beyond what PB-11 has)more IDE usability enhancements that did not make it into PB-11 (on top of essentially all the updates that were put into PB-11 - in fact - most of the IDE enhancements were put into PocketBuilder first...)SA-10 support and MobiLin... (more)

Using Web Services in a PocketBuilder Application

A shortcoming of PocketBuilder 1.x and 2.x has always been the difficulty in accessing Web Services. This shortcoming had always irritated us, but the limitations of the PocketPC and the size of the traditional PowerBuilder approach prevented us from providing an adequate traditional solution. We have a sample up on CodeXchange that wraps a simple API around the free "Pocket SOAP" client... (more)

WindowsMobile Share of Smartphone Sales and Traffic

Some interesting numbers about worldwide market shares of Smartphones (not dumbphones since those are so uninteresting to me). First - the handset sales - for Q1-2009 (Gartner link (1) below) a) Total Smartphone sales over 36.4 Million units, 12.7 percent from same period last year. b) Regular mobile phone sales of 269 Million units, an 8.6 percent decrease. Another report contained the OS b... (more)