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The Evolution of Web Development for Mobile Devices

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Building Web sites that perform well on mobile devices remains a challenge.

NICHOLAS C. ZAKAS

The biggest change in Web development over the past few years has been the remarkable rise of mobile computing. Mobile phones used to be extremely limited devices that were best used for making phone calls and sending short text messages. Today’s mobile phones are more powerful than the computers that took Apollo 11 to the moon, with the ability to send data to and from nearly anywhere. Combine that with 3G and 4G networks for data transfer, and now using the Internet while on the go is faster than my first Internet connection, which featured AOL and a 14.4-kbps dialup modem.

The Evolution of Web Development for Mobile Devices

 

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Making the Mobile Web Faster

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Mobile performance issues? Fix the back end, not just the client.

KATE MATSUDAIRA

Mobile clients have been on the rise and will only continue to grow. This means that if you are serving clients over the Internet, you cannot ignore the customer experience on a mobile device.

There are many informative articles on mobile performance, and just as many on general API design, but you’ll find few discussing the design considerations needed to optimize the back-end systems for mobile clients. Whether you have an app, mobile Web site, or both, it is likely that these clients are consuming APIs from your back-end systems.

Certainly, optimizing the on-mobile performance of the application is critical, but software engineers can do a lot to ensure that mobile clients are remotely served both data and application resources reliably and efficiently.

Making the Mobile Web Faster

 

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A Decade of OS Access-control Extensibility

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Open source security foundations for mobile and embedded devices

ROBERT N. M. WATSON, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE COMPUTER LABORATORY

To discuss operating system security is to marvel at the diversity of deployed access-control models: Unix and Windows NT multiuser security; Type Enforcement in SELinux; anti-malware products; app sandboxing in Apple OS X, Apple iOS, and Google Android; and application-facing systems such as Capsicum in FreeBSD. This diversity is the result of a stunning transition from the narrow 1990s Unix and NT status quo to security localization—the adaptation of operating-system security models to site-local or product-specific requirements.

A Decade of OS Access-control Extensibility

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Your Mouse is a Database

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Web and mobile applications are increasingly composed of asynchronous and realtime streaming services and push notifications.

ERIK MEIJER

Among the hottest buzzwords in the IT industry these days is “big data,” but the “big” is something of a misnomer: big data is not just about volume, but also about velocity and variety:

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2169076