Jamie’s Weblog

I’ve been meaning to ask this rhetorical question for a while <amateur psychology>When was the last time you rushed home or put aside some other activity to watch an episode of the Simpsons? When did you last see a Simpsons episode? When was the last time you saw a Simpsons episode which you hadn’t seen [...]

Russ and Karlin talk MMSRussell Beatie has an in-depth post on MMS whilst Karlin has an article in the Irish Times on the same subject (subscription required, but maybe she’ll post a copy on her site). I’m particularly struct by Russ’ description of the technical workings of MMS (of which I was only vaguely aware [...]

ha habut sadly it’s true

This made my day! I’m glad someone finds the logging api useful. One other feature I particulary like: I was involved in the expert group for JSR-47 (the logging api) and I pushed specifically for the static global logger. For the work I was doing at the time, it was important to be able to [...]

Cool…footnotes for your browser, assuming you are using a Mozilla-based browser.

J2ME PushIBM have a tutorial on using Push activation in MIDP 2.0. I haven’t got around to reading it yet as I object to SMS being called Simple Message Service – it’s called the Short Message Service. Yeah, I know I’m being pedantic and we can hardly expect Americans to be experts at all this [...]

Java 1.4.2is finally out of beta and available. There’s also a cobundle with netbeans 3.5 at the same location. BTW, there is now a web-based installer (339k) for Windows which will download the required components or you can opt for the old-style offline installer (~44Mb)

apple lock-in and other annoyancesThere’s much talk about Apple what with Steve Jobs’ keynote being online now. I like macs – they look good and function well. But I don’t use them, won’t buy them (and couldn’t if I wanted to). The problem with macs is not the individual products but the way they all [...]

Another wish come trueSome time ago I mentioned that it’d be great to produce diffs of an API rather than on a per-character or per-word basis. Well, that’s exactly what JDiff does. It acts as a javadoc plugin (so I guess Ant will make light work of it) and produces a HTML report of every [...]

warstalkingthe act of following someone around with the intention of hacking their Bluetooth connection. Inspired by Martin’s post. You heard it here first.