Archive for September, 2006

RSS Reader for BlackBerry

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006

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 to the anonymous comment it installs over the air on the actual device. Here are [...]

OPML support for RSS Reader

Friday, September 15th, 2006

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 menu. Next user needs to enter the URL address for the text file or OPML file. [...]

Test-Driven Development

Sunday, September 10th, 2006

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 development says: “It is always better to identify bugs as early as possible in development [...]

Microsoft Web Day 2006, Helsinki

Friday, September 1st, 2006

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 cool presentations about the Vista’s gadgets and Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF.
I especially liked the key [...]