Okay - I'll try this again. I got some responses for the J2ME developer a while ago, but no one who responded really had a lot of hands-on experience and no one was local. Let's try it again for JSP Developers. I need someone to work with me here in Emeryville. So "no" to everyone who can't work in the next cube with me...

I've been ranting for quite a while now about the importance of enterprise developers to the mobile market. Last year during JavaOne, I focused on Sun and Java, and then later Symbian and Nokia. The idea is that Microsoft has an integrated suite of tools for corporate mobile developers and these other guys just don't have anything nearly...

I've joined the hoards of TiVo devotees. Last night we drove down to Best Buy and while I was picking up the i730, I finally could resist no longer the siren call of the TiVo so I grabbed the big orange box and headed for the counter. I got the TiVo brand TiVo with 40GB of space. It's awesome - as good as all it's press and more. I...

I interupt this regularly scheduled Nokia love-fest for a review of a new mobile phone I just bought for work. It's a Motorola i730 for the NEXTEL network here in the U.S. and it's being sold by a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO like Virgin Mobile) called Boost Mobile. It's a pretty amazing bit of tech being sold at an...

For a variety of reasons yesterday, a thought came to me about the place of camera phones in popular culture and it dawned on me the obvious parallels to Kodak's $1 Brownie camera launched in 1900. I couldn't find any detailed history of the camera online, but from what I remember of some History Channel documentary on the company, the...

I've got an announcement to make: Thanks to some help from Robert Scoble and some contacts I made while attending Microsoft's Mobile DevCon last week, I've received and accepted an offer to become a technical evangelist for Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform! Yes, I know what you're thinking, "Russ, but you hate...

WATCH this video Here's my thoughts recorded on the new Nokia 7610 loaned to me by Christian Lindholm (THANKS!). It's a 6MB video in 3GP format - you'll need the latest version of Quicktime to view it. I hadn't messed with the settings when I recorded the video, so it cuts off around 15 minutes. Had I spent 30 seconds with the...

I've been trying to say this in varying ways for a while now. I'm a Java programmer, but I'm not a Computer Scientist. What that means is that I usually use Java the same way someone else uses Perl or Python. I love discovering great libraries that save me time and let me just wire up a solution, rather than trying to do it all...

Woohoo! UrlRewriter is 1.0! I just *love* this library so much, I wanted to give Paul Tuckey some more link love for it. Thanks to Ken who gave me the heads up in my comments that it went 1.0 today. Fantastic. Now I have to go through every web app I've created in the past few months and upgrade. In case you missed my earlier post about it,...

In case you missed it, Diego launched CleverCactus Share over the weekend. This is a personal file-sharing app with an interesting invite-only method of user access. Unlike many of the other P2P systems out there, this one allows only your friends to access your files. Very cool. A few things - first is to note that the technology behind share...

I'm just about at the end of my rope when it comes to spam. I'm getting *way* less than 1% real email now. Overnight I regularly receive 200+ emails and maybe 1 or 2 is a real email. Then throughout the day it's just constant. This is insane. Is it just the price for having a weblog and open emails, or is it just a completely...

No significant posts from me for days. Oh-oh. I was waiting until the sensation that I *had* to post went away. I hate when blogging feels like homework, which is what it's felt like since early last week, and just got more intense as things happened later on. I'll have to catch up now. Another gorgeous weekend in San Francisco -...

The Eclipse project has continued it's metronome-like release schedule and released 3.0M8. I'm very excited about this version as it addresses one of my main annoyances with Eclipse, lack of dynamic Workspace selection. Yes I know you can do it via a command-line hack, but I've been waiting for it to be part of the UI. Lots of other...

I'm a Java head, but I'm really starting to warm up to PHP, especially the next version PHP 5. I just saw this neat article about the new XML support in PHP and it's pretty great. I really like the simplicity of dealing with XML and XPath. (All bow down to XPath). Check it out: $sxe = simplexml_load_file("articles.xml");...

I had a thought the other day that the next revolution in mobile handsets is going to come in the form of cellular watches. This thought came to me when I saw the latest prototype pic of this gigantic mobile thing strapped to someone's wrist and I thought, no way. That's not going to happen - it's way too big. Trying to cram in the...