Hi – my name is Kerry Jones, and I’ve been programming (on platforms ranging from mainframes to desktops) since 1970 (commercially since 1979). I’m currently CTO at Pocket Soft, Inc. where recent (obvious) trends in computing have moved this mobile-curmudgeon, who almost never carried his cellphone until very recently, into the brave new world of mobile software development.

My blog records some of the bumps and challenges along that path, and will hopefully be helpful to anyone else making the transition from traditional desktop development into mobile development. I will cover development on the Android, iOS, Tizen and Windows RT platforms, as well as any others that crop up (and are sufficiently interesting to me) in the intervening time.

I’m also the husband (since 1981) of a wonderful wife, the father of two amazing daughters, father-in-law of a terrific young man, and grandfather of the cutest little guy on the planet (I’m completely serious here).

Less importantly, I’m a professor emeritus of mathematics, a composer of concert music, a brass player (principally tuba) and vocalist, an amateur horseman, a music minister, an alum of Rice University, and a seventh-generation Texan (though currently living in exile in the Midwest).

Naturally, any opinions expressed on these pages are my own and not the views of any employer past, present or future.