About
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Quick Bio
Jonathan Stark is a mobile application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web.
He is the author of O'Reilly's Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and is often quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends.
Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.
My Spiel
Thanks to mobile phones, we have moved from virtually no one having access to information, to virtually everyone having access to the vast resources of the web. This is arguably the most important achievement of our generation.
Despite its overarching importance, the mobile web is in its infancy. Physical, technical, financial, and political forces have created platform fragmentation like never before, and it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Organizations that need to engage large groups are faced with a seemingly impossible challenge – "How do we implement our mobile vision in a way that is feasible, affordable, and reaches the greatest number of participants?"
In many cases, the answer is web technologies. The combination of advances in HTML5 and mobile devices has created an environment where even novice developers can build mobile apps that improve – and in some cases, save – lives on a global scale.
The future of computing is mobile. The future of mobile is web. Start building our future today.
More Information
If you would like to know more (or are insanely bored), you should follow me on Twitter, check out my picture feed, my favorite quotes, my personal blog, my work experience, and this interview done by Tim Dietrich over at FileMaker Addict. Most of my client work is private, but there are a few public examples. I have also posted a bunch of nice testimonials. Thanks for your interest!
