I don't understand why you'd use Interface Builder to create a UI for an iPhone application.When I started building my first iPhone application at Shine, my colleagues advised me to avoid using Interface Builder. They'd tried using it when they were first starting out, but...
... or is that the wrong question?It has been bothering me for a while that I can't understand why Sun spends money on Java. Don't get me wrong, I love the fact that they do. But surely there is a wider financial goal rather than...
Shine Technologies Senior Developer Kon Katsaros has written an article entitled 'Java ME Mobile Phone Applications - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'. Inspired by the popular spaghetti western, he covers 'the many highs - and a few of the lows - of developing...
I dragged myself away from Mini Kiss and Robot Fighting at the 'After Dark' bash on Thursday evening (seriously, this was geek entertainment to the max) to head to a session title JRubMe. OK, it was a typo and it was actually JRubyME. ...
I went to a 'birds of a feather' session at JavaOne this evening about the way forward for J2ME. There were people from Ericsson, France Orange, Nokia and Sun. All had been involved in the latest JSRs. The comments from them were...
Today was the official start of JavaOne 2007, and of course there was a keynote. The VP of Software for Sun, Rich Green sauntered on to the stage with music pumping out from a DJ and with massive video screens showing lots of shiny,...
A site of interest if you're doing some Bluetooth J2ME coding: http://www.javabluetooth.com/...
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