In my last post I mentioned that I was unable to retrieve the Bluetooth address of my GPS receiver, this wasn’t entirely accurate. I stumbled across Benhui’s Bluelet library that simplies Bluetooth device/service discovery. This worked like a charm but the problem turned out to be making a call for the first service [...]

I’ve been working hard to move my BlueGPS application to J2ME. This will enable the application to run on millions of more devices than it’s current Symbian implementation. The key will be getting past the technical hurdle that I’m currently faced with. I’m having problems with programmatically retrieving the device address of [...]

With my ongoing investigation and fascination with Ruby on Rails I’ve been extremely impressed with the ajax integration. In most development scenarios you’re left with conjuring up the XMLHTTPRequest code on the client. While I’m a huge advocate of actually understanding the lower-level code I’m an even bigger advocate of abstraction. That’s [...]

I’ve been wanting to upload photos to my blog from my Nokia 6620. I first decided to tackle this using Symbian but realized that it would take me ten times longer than writing it using J2ME. Don’t get me wrong, I love Symbian and the power it brings to development, but it’s extremely [...]

If you’ve read anything about Ajax lately you’ve probably heard it’s the next big thing. Everyone seems to interpret Ajax as this incredible framework for web development that should simplify our lives. The reality is there’s no framework at all and it’s simply a transport mechanism to send data to the server and [...]

I spent a little time this evening updating my Google Maps app to support clicking on a location icon. I struggled with this a few weeks ago where clicking on an icon didn’t do anything even though I had added the necessary code to display the info window. It turns out that I [...]

I’ve been reading a great book called “Agile Web Development with Rails”. I stumbled across Ruby on Rails a few weeks ago and was intrigued with all the hype. I come from a strong ColdFusion background with moderate experience working with JSP and PHP. ColdFusion has enabled me to rapidly prototype and [...]

If you’ve ever used linux then this about sums it up:
http://mirror1.spikedhumor.com/1209/SwitchLinux.swf
My favorite line is when he mentions “patching your kernel” and throws up a nice salute. Despite this anecdotal Flash movie, Linux has become much more user friendly and if you decide to give it a go I would recommend Knoppix which runs from [...]

A good friend of mine emailed me early this week asking if my Golf Tips widget would run in Konfabulator. I was fairly optimistic that it would work with a few tweaks. I think he knew that if he planted the seed I would get around to porting it. So I got [...]

Lately I’ve been doing a good amount of soul searching to find out what it is I really want to do in life. I won’t go into detail about that here and promise to get back to it in a future post. It basically boils down to the fact that I need to [...]