Archive for December, 2006

How to fix Nokia 770’s 3.5mm audio jack?

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Nokia 770 3.5mm audio jack
I have used my Nokia 770 as a portable media player since the Canola player was released. The Canola player was also the reason I was forced to disassemble my device.
I’ve been using the player during the bus trips to work and even though the device is quite small it is [...]

Google Code offers download services

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

Google Code’s project hosting service was updated a while ago. Now it contains services for file downloads and wikis. Check out the file downloads section on my Mobile RSS Reader project.

I just finished up coding the ATOM feed support for RSS Reader so now you can read great blogs like On Be(come)ing Agile. I also [...]

Coding standards and practices

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

I’m in a position where I once in a while find my self maintaining parts of _really_ old code. The code that have been revisited multiple times over the years by multiple developers. At the times like those I really hope that the coding style guide practice would had been around from the day one.
Every [...]

RSS Reader MIDlet v1.3 released

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

I did some programming for the RSS Reader MIDlet. New version of RSS Reader includes the following new features:

Sync feeds from OPML
Save feed items when application is closed
Update all feeds with one command
Improved text rendering (HTML tags are removed)
Improved feed support

You can download the latest binaries and source code here. I also was able to [...]

BlackBerry JDE, NetBeans IDE 5.5 and Vista

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

I’m just about to release the next version of the RSS Reader MIDlet. I had a bit of a trouble when I tried to get a BlackBerry JDE to work with NetBeans IDE 5.5 and Windows Vista. As I wrote earlier it was rather easy to setup for Windows XP.
I set up the environment like [...]