Updated on: 2008-06-17
QIK-ing @ CommunicAsia 08!
Posted on: 2008-03-27
Thanks to my good friend, I got the honour of being an Alpha user for QIK! It is an excellent platform for live webcasting. Worth a look or two!
I was stumbled upon this online tool that let you create simple motivational poster.
And in this forum, there are numerous interesting posts.. but many are not that 'motivational'.
I once saw a very amusing and very motivational liner, hence I remake it with the tool..
Updated on: 2008-06-29
To install and setup Netbeans 6.1 on Mac is no problem. Running a J2EE or J2SE application would then be fairly similar to Windows. But running J2ME has a little problem.
To work with mobile application, one can follow the helpful Netbeans + Mobility + Mpowerplayer Guide. However, the guide did not cover how to add optional java package such as jsr75, which I would cover below.
The complete steps to set up a mobile development environment with Netbeans + J2ME Mobility Pack + Visual Designer + Mpowerplayer emulator + optional java package:
$ unzip sun_java_wireless_toolkit-2_5_2-linux.bin
platform.bootclasspath=${platform.home}/stubs/mmapi.jar:${platform.home}/stubs/midp-2.0.jar:${platform.home}/stubs/cldc-1.0.jar:${platform.home}/stubs/jsr75.jar
Updates
Instead of using the 2-years-inactive Mpowerplayer emulator, we could instead use MicroEmulator. The difference is to download its Netbeans plugin here.
Tips
In step 13, editing the platform.bootclasspath property is only a temporary solution. The drawback is that when ever you change/view the project properties, platform.bootclasspath will revert back to its original.. What I do is to comment my edited platform.bootclasspath (with a #) and copy and paste it whenever the property is reverted.
Q1 2008 - For US
Statistics of smartphone sales from Q4 2007 to Q1 2008 from smh.com.
BlackBerry: 35% > 45%
iPhone: 27% > 19%
Treo: 7.9% > 13%
Samsung: 5% > 9%
Now who is the king of smartphones?
Updated on: 2008-06-10Q1 2008 [iSuppli]
Information on mobile vendors handsets shares.
In December 2004, I bought my first laptop Fujitsu T4010, which I name it Terminator (the T-series robot send by John Connor from the future). This is a faithful and very very good tablet PC, which still can run things except it has grown louder, hotter and clumsier. I decided I would need to retire it soon on the day that it growls so loudly when I was in NUS library..
In June 2008, I bought an my second laptop Apple MacBook, which I named it Light. It is white and pure in color, and it runs on the Mac OS X! No more evil M$!
I have never use Mac enough to convince me that I should switch to join the light. I make the decision purely on the fact that I see many people using it - credible geeks, professionals, youngsters, and ladies! It is now a change of era.
And I do believe Mac will make me more efficient, despite that some softwares cannot be run. Developers are still in the phrase of transitioning, and would now realize Mac is not to be ignored, and hence more softwares will be available from now on! Soon/Already, windows user are complaining why they don't have what mac have!
Lastly and strangely, Terminator cost me $2500 at student price (retail price at about $3600!), while Light cost me lesser at $1820! Looks like either I am more spendthrift now, or laptop price is falling (:
Last Updated: 1 June 2008
Developing an application that has a sexy GUI is the hardest thing to do on J2ME. You may not believe as you have seen some great applications with good GUI. To name a few outstanding ones... Yahoo! Go, Opera Mini, Google Maps, etc... But these applications are not done easily. They have their own proprietary GUI library.
I have always been seeking for a good and free GUI library. But good things are seldom cheap. And cheap things are seldom complete. These are some better mentions:
Good Blog with many J2ME resources/libraries:
Others - good but not very promising:
