So another day spent  knee deep in Compact Framework programming.    It still amazes me that with little work some amazing solutions can be produced.   From nothing to a fully fledged mobile application takes a couple of hours rather than days of traditional development.

Working the detail of a mobile application is always a challenge but having the correct tools (Visual Studio 2005, Anglia DataMaker) makes the effort shift to mostly interpreting customer requirements rather than solving technical issues.

Today's hot tip from me is to always show the customer lots of screenshots of the proposed solution well ahead of the build.   Customers usually don't know what they are going to get from a mobile solution so some upfront story- boarding lakes much of the pain out of the build process as expectations are already set.