RhoMobile was selected as a finalist in the About.com readers choice awards for the Best Cross-Platform Formatting Tools. Yet another validation of our direction and technology as being recognized as one of the finalists. Now – its’ our turn to lever this nomination and help show our strength in the market. Get out and VOTE! Vote RhoMobile!!!

Today we released RhoConnect 3.4.4.  The RPM/DEB installers have been updated with the following stack:

* ruby-1.9.3-p392

* redis 2.6.10

* nginx 3.1.13

* RubyGems version has been locked to 1.8.25

This release only fixes installation issues with the RPM/DEB packages, there are no rhoconnect gem changes.

Today we released RhoConnect 3.4.3.  This version addresses an important security patch that was added to rack, a 3rd party dependency we use.

Here are some technical FAQ's to answer your questions on WE8HH

Q. How does Microsoft “Windows 8” relate to enterprise customers?

After my webinar yesterday on the SB1 application development, a co-worker came to me asking if there was a faster way to enable the scanner on the device. Before I get into what we ended up doing, let me discuss the current way most people enable and disable the barcode scanner using RhoElements. In our Scanner API we have the .enable() and .disable() methods. When you do:

RhoElements and the MC2100

I have spoken to a number of customers over the past few months about their experiences using RhoElements on the MC2100 and wanted to share my findings.

This blog describes how you would go about porting an existing PocketBrowser application into RhoElements for Motorola devices and how to do so in a high performing fashion.

What is PocketBrowser?

When a device resumes from standby, it can take a while for the radio (WLAN) to establish a connection. If your application requires interaction with a remote server then notification of a valid network connection may be required. This can be achieved using the Network API supplied as part of RhoElements. Here is a quick walk-through example that makes use of the Network API.