Who remembers creating bit-encoded packet structures along with checksums to serve as your wire protocol for connecting distributed systems? It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was doing just that in order to get telemetry from a distant vending machine into a Windows 3.1 PC at a speed of 1200 baud over a wireless 450 MHz business radio link. Just ten years ago we suffered from a complete lack of wireless bandwidth and reliability.

Rob Tiffany is currently writing a book for Apress about SQL database development with eVB that will hit the shelves this summer. eVB books are very hard to come by at the moment so deVBuzz wishes him all the luck and speed. In the interim Rob shares a few of his thoughts relating to wireless development...

For some time now I have been developing locally using my wireless LAN and now feel comfortable enough with the setup to recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone who hankers to ditch the wires. In the beginning the goal...