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I've to admit, I love computer animations… I admire the folks that have the talent to create virtual worlds that transcend reality. And I love computer animations with music… If you too, checkout Animusic — it is pretty awesome… STARSHIP GROOVE POGO STICKS ceo
A very good piece by Shawn Conahan of Intercasting Corp., makers of Rabble – see “Social Networking” is a Construct (part 1 of 2). I share many of Shawn's concepts and definitions. Related to this topic see Elements of Social Networks Software. ceo
Google has introduced Google Code Project Hosting… their open source project hosting offering that competes with SourceForge. Google… Google… they know our searching patterns and web content (Google search), our email (Gmail) and IM (Google Talk) conversations, our blogs preferences (Google Reader) and calendar events (Google Calendar), the groups we publish or follow (Google Groups), … Read more
One of “new” JSRs in the block is the Mobile Internationalization API (JSR 238). This specification defines localization resource file formats and their organization, and of course, the API itself to manage the resources. With the Mobile Services Architecture specification (JSR 248), the mobile internationalization API is one of the mandatory JSRs to be present … Read more
From W3C: Participants in the International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository have published their report. … the workshop participants debated the expected nature of the Device Description Repository (DDR). All agreed it should be simple. The API and a vocabulary of essential properties are high priorities. The DDR should not merely … Read more
Just read via Wendong's Smart Phone Weblog that Sony Ericsson has released Mobile JUnit 1.0 for Java ME CLDC phones. ceo
If you have an MMS application that you want to put it front of Cingular's marketing folks, do the following: In 2-3 sentences, write why your application is unique and how a customer will benefit from it. What multimedia components are included in the application (e.g., static photo, video, audio). In an overview or storyboard … Read more
The date was July 20, 1969. The mission was Apollo 11. A day like today, 37 years ago, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon… Forgotten by many, the trio of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, together with thousands of other people who worked on the mission, made history like it was never done … Read more
The act of coding vs. the act of deploying… Is coding deploying in Java ME really a pain? Previously I wrote Is coding in Java ME really a pain? where I bring up a couple of points on that topic. But I've been recently reminded — the real pain is not the coding part, but … Read more
The commercial (Java) IDE market has been going through a transformation that started more than 3 years ago. And it all started with the introduction of NetBeans and Eclipse free IDEs. I remember (and experienced in person) the love-hate relationship between Metrowerks and Sun, with the CodeWarrior (CW) folks creating the CodeWarrior for Wireless product, … Read more