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1st Household Electronics Recycling Event of the Season

Total Reclaim is sponsoring a Household Electronics Recycling event Saturday, June 14, 10am – 3pm at Service High School (5577 Abbott Road). Bring your household electronics, including computers, printers, TVs, stereos and much more, for recycling. A small fee per item will be charged. The Total Reclaim warehouse in the Huffman Business Park also will be open during the hours of this event,...

Software Professionals of Alaska: First Meeting!

PangoMedia will be hosting the first ever SPA meeting here on Tuesday, June 12 at 5:30pm. The agenda will be short and simple. We're going to discuss the mission and structure of the organization and line up some goals for the upcoming quarter. This is a brand new organization and to-date has been envisioned only in the coffee-addled minds of myself and Jeremiah Dunham (a la WAI fame). We...

xhtml: what, why, how?

xhtml (eXtensible hypertext markup language) is the big buzzword in the web standards community [link], but what is it exactly, how does it help us, and how much should we implement it in our projects?

xhtml: What?

Resistance is futile. You will be Standardized.

Web standards have been on the way for a while but they have always seemed slightly out of reach. The threat of Microsoft refusing to comply with the W3C XHTML standards has kept a lot of designers and developers from developing validated, compliant code for the web. There were intellectual battles over the need for compliance though many pressed forward with...

The Windows Mobile RSS feed has moved

The Windows Mobile RSS feed has been divided into three separate feeds for different Mobile-related technical topics. Please visit the Windows Mobile Developer Center home page to subscribe to the new feeds for Applications for Smart Devices, Mobile Games, or Mobile Web topics.

Developing Stylus-Free Windows Mobile Professional Applications

Designing your application to be easily used without a stylus can often reduce the complexity of interacting with your application and make the user more efficient overall. Similarly, designing your application so that users can interact with the application without a stylus dramatically increases the number of devices that can support your application. This article demonstrates how you can develop applications to reap the benefits of stylus-free design.

Dynamic Graphic Text Resizing

This is the latest article from the Windows Mobile Developer Center "Adapt Your App" series. One of the many challenges Windows Mobile developers face is adapting their application user interface to the many available Windows Mobile device screen sizes. This article provides a simple class that automatically adjusts the size of displayed text so that it makes the best use of available screen space.

Webcast: Windows Communications Foundation and Mobile Devices

In this webcast, we discuss the .NET Compact Framework v3.5 Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) implementation with a specific focus on store-and-forward messaging, an asynchronous messaging architecture that enables mobile devices to communicate with one another without requiring both devices to be online simultaneously. See this webcast live on 12-Dec-2007 at 11:00 AM PST (1900 UTC) or On-Demand starting 13-Dec-2007.

How to Intercept Incoming Short Message System (SMS) Messages

Short Message System (SMS) messaging provides a convenient way to communicate between applications running on separate devices; the MessageInterceptor class allows you to easily incorporate SMS message handling in your application. This paper provides a description of the MessageInterceptor class' capabilities and includes samples of the class' most common uses.

Java Mobility Podcast 54: Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA

Jonathan Knudsen talks about his new book, Kicking Butt with MIDP and MSA and his tutorial on the Light Weight UI Toolkit.

Pimp My LWUIT!

This is part one of hopefully a long series covering UI customizations in LWUIT, it is written mostly for the programmers among us and to a lesser extent for the designers (although they can probably grab ideas from here/make them beautiful). I will try to cover as many grounds of UI look as possible, from advanced rendering concepts to animations and customizations. ...

Falling In Love With My Sentilla Perk Kit

I got a Sentilla Perk Kit. This is my first introductory post showing how to set up the environment and create a simple Hello World.

Comparing LWUIT and JavaFX Mobile

Open sourcing LWUIT last week has created a lot of buzz - the response has been phenomenally positive. We've also gotten a few questions regarding the relationship of LWUIT and the upcoming JavaFX Mobile platform - there still seems to...

Ask the Experts: Java FX Preview, August 18-22

The recently released JavaFX Preview helps early adopters become familiar with JavaFX. Got a question? Post it during this session and get answers from three key members of Sun's JavaFX engineering team.

Find the Java Bugs That Pose a Threat with FindBugs

FindBugs enables you to isolate and correct dangerous Java bugs. Its unique features separate it from the many static analysis tools in the Java world. Find out what makes FindBugs so special.

Play an MP3 Using Java Media Framework

The code in this tip shows you how to develop a simple Java application that can play MP3 files. This application is based on JMF (Java Media Framework).

Create a Menu Bar with JavaFX

Here's a JavaFX example that creates a nice menu bar.

Silverlight Streaming: Free Video Hosting for All

Video has long been the bane of developers for lack of hosting and bandwidth. But with Microsoft® Silverlight? Streaming, almost anyone can get their videos online quickly, easily and for free.

Doclets: Decipher and Document Java Code Easily

Developers are increasingly required to take over and maintain multiple projects. Doclets, a new addition to Java SE 6, provides a mechanism for learning the source code of Java projects with relative ease.

The Server Side Java Symposium Europe : Day 1

Its about 6.30PM here in Prague and the day 1 of The Server Side Java Symposium (TSSJS) is wrapping up for the day with an award ceremony (sponsored by GigaSpaces). I am too tired and sleepy to carry on after...

Workflow and Business Rules - why you need both

Tom Baeyens (jBPM / JBoss workflow project lead) has a good post on the jBPM (JBoss workflow) community day held at the Guinness brewery in Dublin. Warning - slides may contain pictures of people drinking beer. In case you missed...

NIH in the SOA.

Vincent Pardington has a good post up on DZone beginning an SOA pitfalls series. His first post, on NIH in the SOA world is a good one, but I think misses one important point: First of all, the idea of...

UML: Not dead yet

So this has made the rounds on /. I will say this about UML: some of us are visual people. As the token Left-Handed guy in the software world, I admit, I see the world in somewhat visual terms. I...

NASA's Mars24 Sunclock (Keeping Track of Phoenix)

The Phoenix Mars landing is tonight (Sunday), you can Watch NASA TV starting at 6:00 PM EST. You can expect live commentary to start around 6:30 PM EST. If you want to follow along and watch the landing, there is...