About
I am a man who is living the mobile dream – in more ways than one. I am a technologist, executive & entrepreneur, working in the arena of the mobile web, and living around the world. (This year: an island off Belize.)
Most recently I was the CTO at dotMobi. Previously I’ve worked for startups, consultancies and a telecoms vendor. I start, grow, & lead teams by example; I speak at industry events; I write on technology topics; and I can hold my own in board meetings.
Software satisfies my creative side. I use Python, Javascript, PHP, Ruby, C#, Java… and after that, they all start to look the same. Django, WordPress, Drupal, Rails, nginx & node.js are my server technologies of choice. MySQL and SQL Server databases like me: I love them back when I get them to draw beautiful pictures, blazingly fast.
Welcome to my life online, and please take a look around. And if you like things a little more formal, here is my resumé.
Recent projects
(a whistle-stop tour in approximately reverse chronological order)
- IvyRoot – cloud-based mobile business intelligence for the 21st century
- WhitherApps – debunking mobile app myths with HTML5
- Professional Mobile Web Development for CMS Platforms (Wiley/Wrox, Spring 2011)
- PercentMobile – Python, .NET, Java and node.js bindings for mobile analytics
- tinySrc – scaling graphics for mobile devices doesn’t get any easier
- WordPress Mobile Pack – popular mobile plug-in for the WordPress CMS
- HWOF.mobi – the mobile Hollywood Walk of Fame guide
- MetaJam – an ultra-fast entertainment database for mobile devices
- mobiForge – the world’s largest independent mobile development community
- Mobile Internet For Dummies (Wiley) – proving that the mobile web is for everyone
- DeviceAtlas – the largest, fastest, and most comprehensive mobile handset database
- Mobile Monday Dublin – you can’t beat an evening of mobile debate and Guinness
…and a number of secret projects that I would have loved to have told you about.
Additional information and screenshots of my various activities are available on the projects page and on the front page of this site.
Career
- Founder, IvyRoot
- CTO, dotMobi
- CTO, Argogroup
- UK Director, AnywhereYouGo.com
- Founder, WAPtastic.com
- Management Consultant, Ernst & Young
- Product Manager, Sema Group Telecoms
- Physics Teacher, Kings Sch. Macclesfield
- MA (Hons) Physics, University of Oxford
Telefonica Developer Blog | Blog | The Beautiful Game:
June 24th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
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Ajaxian » Will Native Mobile Applications Wither Away?:
August 19th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
[...] James Pearce has started a fascinating series, called WhitherApps.com, trying to rewrite the BBC iPhone application and other native mobile apps using HTML5. From the kickoff blog post: WhitherApps is a bandwagon-busting experiment. I believe there are far too many native client apps which could have been far better written as mobile web apps. What we’re going to try and do is take a few examples, apply a little reverse-engineering, and rewrite them, warts and all, with web technologies. [...]
Enter WhitherApps « XaaB – Anything as a Blog:
August 22nd, 2010 at 4:08 pm
[...] apps as compared to native client apps. HTML5 has great potential in building mobile we apps and James Pearce is ready to show us that potential. He and “his team” started WhitherApps. [...]