Thoughts on systems, engineering, technology, and life.

Article on Externalizing Resources in MIDP – Persisting Images in RMS

Check out a technical tip I wrote for the Java Mobility Developers website, where I cover a useful utility/technique for Java ME/MIDP to externalize resources, in this case images. If you are encountering size restrictions when OTA provisioning your MIDlet, or you need…

The Mobile 2.0 Event

Very, very neat… Mike Rowehl from MoMo Silicon Valley, and Daniel Appelquist from MoMo London are organizing the first The Mobile 2.0 Event, Nov 6th, 2006, in San Francisco… ceo

Article on Obfuscating Your MIDlet Suite

Check out the article that I wrote for the Java Mobility Developers website titled Obfuscating Your MIDlet Suite… with a few simple steps you can reduce the size of MIDlet suites using an obfuscator. Reduced size equals smaller, faster downloads – saving OTA…

The Java Ring

…while cleaning my home office, I've found my Java Ring! Wow, it has been a long time since I played with it. Have you seen one? OK, I'll admit it, it's kind of geeky, but it's cool, and is part of Java history……

Paul on Mobile IM

Paul Golding has written a good piece on Mobile IM – is it really IM?… a reality check. ceo

The Java ME Device Table

Sun has updated their Java ME Device Table . The device matrix is a very handy table/tool that allows you to filter handsets by functionality, for example, only show handsets that support certain API, configuration, profile, and so on. Use the above device…

What I took away from the Texas Wireless Summit

The other day I attended the Texas Wireless Summit 2006. It was a good event. The summit is a reltively small event but with a great set of (influencial) speakers that included Paul Struhsaker, Motorola, Dr. Sanjay Jha, QUALCOMM, Dr. Sandeep Chennakeshu, Freescale…

Sorry for the feed republishing (Feedburner)

If you received a repeat of blog entries from my feed (via Feedburner), sorry about that. I was tweaking Feedburner parameters, and it republishes the feed when doing so… ceo

The Car of the Future

While driving to work yesterday morning, the traffic was heavy. I stopped at the gas station to refuel. While the gas prices have been getting lower, the prices are still expensive (I was able to find a gas station with $2.29/gallon). This gave…

Good article on using JUnit for Java ME

A good artile by Jim White on JUnit Testing Using Java ME JUnit Framework… ceo