So the link below reminded me that I have a subscription to JavaOne Online which gives access to many of the presentations given during the past two conferences. I blogged about this a few months ago, and then summarily forgot about it because only about 1/3rd of the presentations were online. That has obviously changed with time and now...

I didn't get nominated, but I got invited to the ceremonies! Woohoo! You are cordially invited to the Series 60 Platform Community Awards 2003, at the Hotel Negresco in Nice, to share and celebrate excellence in the Series 60 Platform Community. A full programme The day will start with a business seminar - an update on the Series 60 Platform and...

More Palm news lately, and it's hard to know what to make of it. Here's what I'm talking about: PalmOne/Handspring launches the Treo 600 PalmOne Launches IBM's J2ME for Tungstens and Java dev portal TapWave Zodiac PalmOS Based Gamepad launches PalmSource Announces PalmOS 6.0 By the end of the year PalmSource Announces a "Smart Phone Version" of...

In my continuing new love-affair with all things Macromedia, I just read on Mike Kriser's site about FlashCast. I had heard about it last week during all the DemoMobile news, but I hadn't really paid attention to what it was: FlashCast is to Mobile Flash, what the BREW Distribution System is to BREW based apps. Oh, wow! That's cool! What's even...

I had lunch with Anil today and you can check out the pics here. He brought along some new toys of his for me to fondle, including the *massive* Motorola A830 that Anil scored during his trip to that Motorola conference I wrote about earlier this year in London. There's not much nice to say about that phone, and the fact is that we've all moved on...

I just saw this link to Berkeley DB XML Getting Started Guide for Java and it made me think again about using an XML repository instead of a relational db for my server-side data which is mostly document centric. From the introduction: DBXML is an embedded database specifically designed for the storage and retrieval of modestly sized XML-formatted...

I'm not saying that server-side MVC is bad, but when idiots start using the complexity of MVC and of J2EE in general as a whip against Java, I start to get a bit annoyed, both with the bozo who doesn't know anything about the power of Java and with the status quo for pushing overly-complex methods as a one-size-fits-all solution. There are lots of...

Mobile Review has an overview of the newest Windows Mobile Phone and they're catching up. In classic Microsoft style, versions 1 and 2 of their phones have been pretty much duds - big, slow, and missing critical features such as integrated camera or Bluetooth. The Mio 8380 - though aimed only at the Asian market - shows that Microsoft is moving...

Interesting news on the Symbian front. I just read this PMN article about how Symbian is expanding its developer outreach by holding a series of Developer Days in various cities in the U.S. and Europe starting in October. (Symbian's development newletter also had the news, but I missed it.) This is a good start for Symbian which, as we've written...

I'm such a dork sometimes. You'd figure with all the time I'm spending on XML lately, I would have thought of this myself, but I hadn't. What I'm talking about is putting an XSL Stylesheet header in your RSS documents so that when a browser like Moz or IE6 sees it, it'll render the XML instead of dumping raw tags in case you click on it. I got...

Cool beans! I just saw this article by Elliot Rusty Harold about StAX (Streaming API for XML), a new "Pull API" for XML created in the Java Community Process. I didn't have any idea that this was being worked on, and I think it's great! In case you're not down with XML Pull, I'm not surprised as I only started working with it in May when I was...

Here's an overview of the apps and functionality you can tap into to use your Nokia 3650 as an on-the-go mobile office. I'll be the first to admit Series 60 lacks a bit in this area because intelliphones aren't as easy to enter data in as a PDA-model type phone such as the P800 or a Palm phone, however if you want to keep track of what's going on...

Is anyone else *astounded* by the announcements coming out of the Sun Network event in San Francisco? I really am. From what I've heard and seen so far, Sun is really doing what it needs to do to both change their business model and communicate (read: market) their message. Check out this series of really well done online presentations on the Sun...

Okay, so we got that Immigrant Visa package from INS today and it's pretty much what we expected, except for form I-864. This is where I prove to the U.S. government that I'm going to be able to earn at least 15% more than the poverty level in the U.S. and that I will have continued financial viability so that Ana (who I am sponsering) does not...

Check it out! Above is a pic of a little Neko Applet from this article at Sun's Wireless center. I think this is *fantastic*. I installed Neko years ago on my Mac in college (I didn't realize it was a Sun thing at all. I thought it was a Mac invention) and spent many long minutes playing with it. That was back when a mouse was something still...