While Jack’s sleeping, and Bella’s shopping with her sister, I’m reading a great online textbook written by one of the masters, Philip Greenspun, on building Internet Applications. From time to time, I’ve read his writing on aviation and listened to an interview of him, and he simply has a great way of writing clearly and effectively (that I certainly don’t, but I admire still). Paul Graham quotes him about Lisp, too – another interesting point.
This textbook he’s written along with 2 others is full of interesting points about how web applications are built and where they may be going. I’ve noticed he has a mobile section that seems to be heavy on mobile browsers, but perhaps there are some more likely endpoints discussed (SMS, mobile gateways, push-networks). I’m interested ultimately at making mobile information access more accessible and far more interesting; part of the reason no one (outside of Japan) really uses mobile browsers is that the experience is terrible (takes too long). Maybe Philip gets to that in his mobile section, I’ll just have to see. Regardless, this is a well written book anyone interested in the web should be reading.