A pretty slow day in the office allowed me to take a look at a fairly new mobile SDK framework called Blueprint, that is offered by the Yahoo! Developer Network . At first glance this looks pretty good and was something I had been looking for. Earlier last year I was hoping to start developing some small applications for the iPhone, but was thrown a roadblock when I found out that Apple does not provide an SDK for the PC – something that seems extremely stupid to me. I mean, they are missing out on a lot of developers by doing that. Hopefully in the future it will be come available, but until then…

Anyhow, back to the subject on hand – Blueprint. I did a brief look through of  their online documentation to get a sense of what it’s all about. Basically, its an XML-based technology that allows you to create mobile-friendly applications that run on a variety of handheld devices. Using PHP (or any other server technology), you can serve up this XML and Blueprint will render it according on the user’s device; each having it’s own look and feel.

Since this is a fairly new developer kit, there is not a whole lot of  support and tutorials out there, save one offered by IBM – “Develop mobile widgets with Yahoo! Blueprint”. I plan on taking a look at this tutorial and will offer up my thoughts upon the completion of it at a later time, so stay tuned.