Monthly Archives: September 2006

RSS Reader for BlackBerry

Posted on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 by Tommi Laukkanen

There were some anonymous requests for releasing a BlackBerry version of the RSS Reader MIDlet so I took the challenge and was able to build a version for BlackBerry. The application seems to work with the BlackBerry emulator and according … Continue reading →

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OPML support for RSS Reader

Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 by Tommi Laukkanen

I added OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) support for RSS Reader MIDlet. User can now import list of RSS feeds from simple text file or OPML file. User can import list of feeds by selecting “Import Feeds” command from main … Continue reading →

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Test-Driven Development

Posted on Sunday, September 10, 2006 by Tommi Laukkanen

I have been moving towards using the Test-Driven Development (TDD) more and more both as professionally and in my hobby projects. Even the slightest use of TDD have shown to give a good results. As the basic rule of software … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Web Day 2006, Helsinki

Posted on Friday, September 1, 2006 by Tommi Laukkanen

Last Thursday, 23th of August, I visited the Microsoft’s Web Day 2006 event at Helsinki, Kinopalatsi. Microsoft and their partners gave good presentations about various new web technologies like Atlas, which is Microsoft’s AJAX library for ASP.NET. There were also … Continue reading →

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