Tags: Internet, Software Solutions, Technology Industry, Telecommunications
By Alexander Villafania
QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA – The rise of Internet-enabled mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs is enticing software programmers to follow the trend.
However, a software development pundit is saying that success as a developer can only be measured by knowing the basics of programming on core information technology infrastructure.
During the recently held DevCon Mobile Code Camp, Orange & Bronze Co-founder and CEO Calen Legaspi said software programmers have to learn to develop on client-side server computers where applications are hosted, managed, and run.
Legaspi stressed that many end-user applications are running on server computers, from corporate applications, remote-access services, to consumer-level Internet applications.
These, he said, are the core infrastructure that enables other types of services to happen.
Among the programming applications that he said software developers must learn are JavaScript and hypertext markup language version 5 (HTML5), which are stable core development tools that are also being used in the latest mobile development trends.
While he acknowledges that there will be more mobile phone devices in the coming years that would require newer and better applications, Legaspi warned that focusing only on mobile application development could be dangerous to developers especially with the history of mobile operating systems that constantly change.
“In the last ten years, there was the Palm operating system, the older versions of Symbian, Windows CE, older versions of the BlackBerry operating system, and even wireless applications protocol WAP),” he noted.
“These became obsolete over time as new mobile operating systems came. You have to learn to stretch your skills beyond what’s currently popular but also focus your skills on what is stable and is used for core development,” Legaspi said.
Legaspi cited that 30 percent of mobile users currently own a smart phone, which he said would grow to 41 percent by 2015. Developments in newer versions of the Google Android operating system, the Apple iOS, and Windows Mobile 7 would enable users to increase their usage of the Internet, which will push development for more Web-enabled applications.
Ovum previously predicted that by 2015, there will be 1.6 billion small-screen mobile devices in Asia Pacific, which will account for 77 percent of all devices connected to the Internet.
For Philippine mobile providers, the goal remains to be to get more of the 80 million mobile phone subscribers to go to the Internet.
Legaspi also said businesses would invest more on improving their ICT infrastructure, which means they will be looking for better business applications. As such, the potential market for application development for servers remains large and lucrative.
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