Java Kecil 2x

The Groovy RFID project will use Groovy scripting with the Sun Java System RFID middleware to intelligently manage sensors, RFID, strobes, alarms and Java motes. Cool, huh?

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Some tips to the attendees this year from the Hani of two years past. Learn, Enjoy, and make Merry!

My top ten JavaOne 2004 tips

If you’re going to JavaOne, or even if you aren’t, check out the JavaOne 2006 Mobile Conference Companion from Kallisto, a neat little app that features all the schedules for the greatest IT event, including the all-important After Dark timeline. The Nokia 3650 and Razr jars stall on my Nokia 9300 (they had not optimized it for the phone, but I had to try anyways), but worked great for my wife’s Razr v3 and my old Nokia 3650.

Note to Kallisto: Instead of a standalone app, one feature to add in future might be a way for people to upload new, shall we say, “informal” get-togethers into a server, which the Java ME app can query. Anyways, great job guys!

I mean, just LOOK at the REALLY COOL stuff going on just for Java ME!

Java ME Schedule

Wahhhh!!!!!!Wahhhh!!!!!! Is my mouth actually salivating???!!!!!

I had surgery yesterday, and am recuperating today.Interestingly enough, i still managed to do some work. No, i could not bring a laptop with me, but i had my nokia 9300, which i’m slowly coming to realize is wonderful for many situations. Add the opera mini java browser and you can do work and play from anywhere! In fact, I’m currently bed-ridden right now and posting using these!

They’ve got 1 million subscribers as of this April, 2006. They bring the Discovery Channel, CNN, Bloomberg, The History Channel and other cool programs to you whenever and wherever you go. They come to you via Java ME, and they’re called MobiTV.

So, if I had one of those “lower-end” devices like the Nokia 6682, or the Motorola Razr, it would be a snap to download the Java ME application OTA via a MediaNet portal entry page. Snap to reality, where I have a Nokia 9300, a smartphone that (seemingly) has no Cingular MediaNet portal entry. I’ve searched far and wide on the web, but there does not seem to be a way via a JAD or JAR file to get this baby into my baby.

It sucks to be one of the few who opts for a smartphone.

Who would have thunk it? Does Apple, the sick old man of desktop computing just a few years ago, now have enough muscle to sway an entire industry? Some quotes:

The digital-music powerhouse is reportedly trying to convince movie studios to include iPod-ready versions of movies on new DVD format releases. If Steve Jobs has his way, all new movies coming out on the new Blu-Ray DVD format will include iPod-ready versions–yet another content driver for Apple’s iPod. That’s the word from a handful of iPod insider Web sites this week, a move that would substantially bolster the amount of iPod-ready film content, particularly if Apple unveils a video iPod with a larger display screen later this year. As of now, the only full-length feature film sold on iTunes is Disney’s High School Musical.

The reports indicated that Jobs is leveraging both Apple’s decision to support Sony’s Blu-Ray format in its battle with HD-DVD and his increasing clout in Hollywood as Disney’s biggest shareholder to convince movie studios to include iPod-ready content on Blu-Ray discs, which are set to hit retail stores next month.

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Click here to read more about Blu-ray Java development.

My take on why Verizon sucks. Feel free to argue with me or add points to my arguments. In fact, if you’re a webmaster and feel like I do, put up your own Sucks page, or link to the one already there. We may be ants who will make nary a difference in the big scheme of things, but at least we can say we tried.

Marlin is a development tool lets you build data-driven JME mobile applications quickly and easily using a declarative XML markup. It is heavily inspired by OpenLaszlo - an excellent platform for building rich, data-driven Flash applications for the web.

Marlin is essentially a code generator - it comes with an Ant task for converting the XML markup into Java code which can then be compiled, preverified and deployed.

Marlin has been designed to simplify the development of a specific type of mobile application - those which interact with XML based web services. By limiting the scope in this way Marlin can hide many of the repetitive and error prone aspects of developing this sort of application in the components that it offers.

Check it out.

You know the best thing about this ad? It’s not the sleek and powerful desktop PC. Nor is it the imposing presence of the DVD player, with its Sony mark of quality.

No, it’s the fact that Java ME (J2ME) will provide the interactivity of the Blu-ray discs that make all these possible.

Coming to a store near YOU.