Forum Nokia Champion Personal Introduction Page

Mr. Alessandro La Rosa
Master’s degree in software engineering
Italy

A mobile enthusiast, designer, and developer, I’m the CTO of MobileSoft, an Italian mobile-software house. I maintain www.jappit.com, a blog about mobile development, where I share technical knowledge through practical articles and tutorials.

As a software engineer, I specialise in software design, accessibility, and usability in both web and mobile environments. I’m an active contributor to the Nokia community in areas related to Java™ Platform, Micro Edition (Java™ ME), Flash Lite from Adobe and Web Runtime (WRT) — the technologies I use most in mobile development.

Development Areas of Interest

Mobile platforms

Java ME, Flash Lite, Series 40 platform, S60 platform, Microsoft Windows Mobile, WRT widgets, Opera Widgets runtime, Android, iPhone

Application categories

Games, fun, music, imaging, communities, information services, messaging, streaming-media players, location-based services (LBS)

Programming languages

Java™, ActionScript, PHP, Perl, C#, JavaScript™, Objective-C

Integrated development environments (IDEs)

Eclipse, NetBeans, Microsoft Visual Studio, Flash Professional from Adobe, Carbide.c++, Xcode

Wireless device technologies

GSM, general packet radio service (GPRS), EDGE, universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS), High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA), Bluetooth, short message service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS), Wi-Fi

Other areas of interest

Web development on Perl, PHP, Java, and .NET technologies. My main interest is in building rich user interfaces, using Asynchronous JavaScript™ and XML (Ajax) technologies to provide simple and effective tools. Some examples are:

www.stripegenerator.com (a striped background generator)
www.faceroller.com (a Twitter-style community)
www.tvprogrammi.com (a TV guide for Italian audience)

My passions include (in random order) game development, biking, Japanese culture, and pizza.

Personal Competencies

Languages

Italian, English

Mobile competencies

Design and development of mobile applications, games, sites, and platforms for multiplayer game playing. Integration of existing web services and resources into mobile applications. Sharing knowledge about mobile technologies on both www.jappit.com and within the Forum Nokia developer community.

Forum Nokia Community activity areas

Wiki, Discussion Boards, Blogs

Forum Nokia Discussion Board user name

jappit

Other competencies

Design and development of Ajax applications, games, widgets, and social tools. Wide experience with accessibility and usability topics in both web and mobile development. Database management and web security competencies.

Main Nokia Platform Related Achievements

Applications

Website launcher generator
GCal: a Java ME Google Calendar client
Forum Nokia website WRT widget
Bing search engine WRT widget
SMS TAG WRT widget
FliKun: a KuneriLite-based Flash Lite photo uploader for Flickr.
AnimaLogic: a casual-logic game for demonstrating WRT capabilities for games

Books and other publications

Mobilising websites: guidelines for WRT Widgets development, part 1
Mobilising websites: guidelines for WRT Widgets development, part 2

WRT articles:
How to implement Live Scrolling in a Web Runtime widget
How to update WRT widgets without installing a new version
Contacts component for Web Runtime widgets
How to create animated images in Web Runtime widgets
How to dynamically change font size in Web Runtime widgets
Web Runtime image gallery JavaScript component
Battery JavaScript component for WRT
Network Signal JavaScript component for WRT

Articles about using mobile mapping:
How to use Google Maps data in mobile applications
Displaying GPS position using Google Maps images in Flash Lite
J2ME Google Maps API

Java ME library for Image effects:
J2ME image effects library

Awards

June Mobile Design Challenge Winner
Special Prize in Forum Nokia Wiki 2008 Code Example Challenge
2008 June Poster of the Month on Forum Nokia Discussion Boards

Hosted web pages

www.jappit.com

Mobile communities in which you are active

http://mobile.actionscript.it/
http://forum.kuneri.net
www.flashmobilegroup.org
www.betavine.net/bvportal/forums/index.html

Other achievements

Winner in Betavine Summer of Widgets competition

Personal Information

Personal web pages

www.jappit.com
www.twitter.com/jappit
www.facebook.com/alessandro.larosa

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