I am not a mobile web developer. Rather, I am more of a “weekend programmer” focused on traditional web applications. (I am a co-author of Apache JSPWiki, a Java-based wiki software package. No prizes for guessing that I wrote the security bits.) But even though I haven’t tried to do any mobile development just yet, my iPhone’s web browsing capability has gotten me curious about makes a good mobile application — from the nuts-and-bolts perspective. So it was with great interest that I read Brian Fling’s excellent Web 2.0 Expo presentation, Design and Develop for the iPhone and Beyond. I recommend it highly: not only did Brian teach me a few technical tips, he also clearly explains the mobile development stack, from the mobile operators up through the application toolkits. It’s a cracking good deck, too; almost as elegant and entertaining as Dick Hardt’s rapid-fire Identity 2.0 presentation from 2005.