Want to know what went  on behind the scenes of JavaRanch’s mobile site creation?
Timeline

January 2009 – We started talking about how poorly the site renders on a BlackBerry
July 2009 – I got a BlackBerry for work.  And ugh.  The forums do look horrible.
August 2009 – Tried out BlackBerry emulator and explored the minimalistic approach possible [...]

In August, I blogged about how to use the blackberry simulator because information was so scarce.  I’m happy to say the Android emulator documentation is much better.
My goal
About a month ago, beta testers of  JavaRanch’s JForum implementation told me the iPhone and the Droid had a large blank column on the right side of the [...]

I’ve been meaning to blog about jmap/jvisualvm for a while, but this JavaRanch question finally prompted me to do so.
My goal was to see where the memory was going in our JForum installation at JavaRanch. This was a one time thing, so I decided to see if I could do so without JProbe.   I colleague [...]