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Technical Review

OMG – DirecTV, why do you suck so bad?

Beren Erchamion
October 15, 2008

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. However there are some things that…

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Saab

9,000 Miles, a Coat of Wax, and a Turbo-X

Beren Erchamion
October 8, 2008

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 who thought Saab too unreliable to…

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Building a MIDlet 2.0 App for a RIM 8100

Beren Erchamion
October 7, 2008

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 deployed to my phone. Now I’m…

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J2EE/Java

Going Mobile with RIM’s BlackBerry 8100

Beren Erchamion
September 28, 2008

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 not exactly “robust”, and even keypads…

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J2EE/Java

Using Seam 2 and JBoss Portal Pt.2

Beren Erchamion
August 17, 2008

This is the second post in my quest to screw around with JBoss Portal and Seam…the first post is here. Seam is an application framework based on several different technologies: JSF, Facelets, EJB3, and AJAX. If you are interested in…

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Liferay…I need a Life Jacket; Giving JBoss Portal a Try.

Beren Erchamion
August 8, 2008

After completing my previous post on Liferay I began to see that things were really not deploying properly from the EXT environment. I went back and tried the simpler plugins SDK and continued to experience more trouble getting just the…