If you own a home, or are looking to buy one, check out Zillow.com, a very cool website/tool. You can look at homes, or if selling, check your home, and all the information, photos and charts based on public records, market history, and…
Interesting, I just read via Olle’s blog JavaWire, about MSA version 2 (JSR 249)… I haven’t been able to keep up with JSR 249 for a while; so I decided to take a look at it today. …wow, lots of things have happened.…
Mowser lives; pretty awesome. Just read that dotMobi has acquired Mowser, and that Mike and Russ will join dotMobi… From dotMobi Loves Mowser (dotMobi): At long last we can announce some great news! dotMobi is acquiring the well-known Mowser service that provides content…
Sun has released (at J1) its Lightweight UI Toolkit (LWUIT) for Java ME, the library, demos and example code, as part of the a new project LWUIT on Java.net: LWUIT is a UI library that is bundled together with applications and helps content…
I had missed this; thanks to Alex Kerr for point this out: Talking Transcoding (Mobile Marketing Magazine) where Novarra’s President and COO, Jayanthi Rangarajan, was interviewed. Also make sure to scroll-down and go over the comments. My response to this: Prime example of…
A good writeup by Joel Spolsky where he covers the concept or role of Architecture Astronauts: I tried to coin a term for the kind of people who invented Hailstorm: architecture astronauts. “That’s one sure tip-off to the fact that you’re being assaulted…
Like 3 weeks ago I was reading about Fuzzy Databases. I used Google Books to mark an interesting book titled Fuzzy Database Modeling that I saw online. But since then, Google believes my name is “Fuzzy Database Modeling”. …on my Google shared items:…
We are moving towards the next phase in mobile-based marketing? Some people call this Mobile Marketing 2.0: “…combines business and customer interaction data to automate the delivery of relevant marketing information.” So what’s the next phase after MM 2.0? For some folks, the…
One of my Pet peeves is “why create unnecessary fragmentation?”. A good example of such unnecessary efforts is JSR-324 the On Screen MIDlet API for Java ME, a JSR that basically attempted to duplicate functionality in MIDP3. Submitted by Dave Kim of SK…
I was interviewed by Ericsson for JavaOne: Java and mobility enthusiast and visionary C. Enrique Ortiz gives his thoughts on why mobile application development is still a niche activity for developers, and what the hot topics about mobility will be at JavaOne. See…
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