Substance of Code

It has been a few months since I bought a Java game for my Nokia 6670. Today I found out that they had made a mobile version of Leisure Suit Larry and I just had to download it for the old times sake (Can’t forget the Larry 1’s shaking black boxes :)). But what a [...]

If you have ever programmed a bit more complicated mobile applications you have noticed that you need to make your own custom UI controls. The J2ME 2.0 brought few additional controls to the default palette but still one needed to make their own components for their killer applications. Fortunately the NetBeans IDE’s new Flow Designer [...]

Bill Colwill from company called apps for phones informed me kindly about the new release of their commercial rapid application development (RAD) tool, apps for phones. The version 2 has two interesting new features compared to previous release: JSR-120 implementation for sending and receiving SMS messages and support for apps for phones Basic language.
The SMS [...]

Matt Volpi from Sun Microsystems was kind enough to send me an email about the final release of NetBeans IDE 4.1 and Mobility Pack 4.1. I’ve been using both the IDE and the Mobility Pack since early 4.1 beta and I have now switched using the final release. As I have said a few posts [...]

NetBeans.org have published two of my J2ME MIDlet tutorials that I wrote for their Win With NetBeans competition. Follow the links below to read the tutorials:
How to create and use Mobile Class Library with NetBeans 4.0
How to create a J2ME MIDP RSS Reader application with NetBeans 4.0
You can also download the finished RSS Reader MIDlet [...]

I have not been a great fan of RAD (Rapid Application Development) tools as I wish to keep my hands dirty on the code level. But as I first tried the new NetBeans IDE 4.1 beta I was stunned how much the UI designer can speed up the development time for J2ME applications. The new [...]