Blogs

Our PHP device detection API includes a feature to update the rules and data used to identify requesting browsers, operating systems and hardware via a single PHP script (51Degrees.mobi.update.php). Plug-in developers want to use this script to provide a simple button to update the device data from within their favourite CMS' administration interface. However our update script simply writes status messages back to the browser as plain text. Some browsers don't display these messages as they arrive, instead waiting until the entire message has been received. This is no good if we want to provide the user update status messages as the update is happening. For example; "Calculating Delta" or "Verifying Changes". We therefore need a method to display these messages as they arrive. This blog explains a surprisingly simple solution.

This week sees the launch of 51Degrees.mobi's C detection software into Beta. This implementation will assist webmasters with high volumes of traffic to manage. With this first entry, I'll show you how to implement a simple log parser that can produce tailored statistics about device usage from a web server's log file.

New 51Degrees.mobi Device Data update for .NET and PHP.

UK Trade and Investment have chosen 51Degrees.mobi Ltd to represent Britain at the British Business Embassy's ICT Summit on 3rd August 2012.

Pekka Ollikainen's article on mobile device detection with 51Degrees.mobi originally appeared in the July 2012 edition of the Software Developers Journal. He has kindly provided us permission to republish the article.

On 11th July 2012 I held a web seminar with DotNetNuke titled "Take Your Site Mobile with 51Degrees.mobi and DNN". A recording of the web seminar is available on the DotNetNuke web site. We received far more questions than I was able to answer in the time! This blog post contains a consolidated list of questions and answers. Please use the comments if you have any follow up questions. Thank you.

New 51Degrees.mobi premium device data now available for PHP and .NET.

New 51Degrees.mobi device data for PHP and .NET.

On 1st June 2012 I'll be arriving a Bletchley Park in the UK with a backpack, tent, sleeping bag and a set of slides for Over the Air 2012. This blog post contains a link to those slides, as well as video and other useful stuff relevant to the event.

Find out what's new at 51Degrees.mobi in our May 2012 news letter.