Taking a Break with Ubuntu 8.1
Sometimes its nice to take a break and goof around with an OS. I’ve used RedHat, SuSE, and Fedora and they are all nice, but there’s a lot of buzz around Ubuntu. I had...
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RIM Gets Bold and Brings a Storm to Cupertino
RIM picked Santa Clara for its first developer conference right in the back yard of new rival Apple. RIM brought a few friends with them and some pretty darn impressive new phones. There’s the...
OMG – DirecTV, why do you suck so bad?
Its been quite a while since I went on a rant. These days I pride myself in remaining calm and collected, unlike my younger days when I could blow a gasket at any moment....
9,000 Miles, a Coat of Wax, and a Turbo-X
Its been 9000 miles and about 5 months since I last mentioned my Turbo-X. I get a lot of questions about my #19 from friends, family, and of course the predictors of doom (those...
Building a MIDlet 2.0 App for a RIM 8100
If you read my last post then you’ll know I’m having some fun with a RIM 8100 and J2ME programming. Last time I looked at some tools and got a “Hello World” type application...
Going Mobile with RIM’s BlackBerry 8100
Recently I’ve been looking at mobile application development with J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition). Programming on mobile devices really is a tricky problem. Screen sizes are all different, memory is very constrained, processors are...
