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I have made a small improvements to my mobile Twitter client that is called Twim. I contacted Twitter engineers and they helped me so that status updates will now have a correct source in style “… from Twim” as seen on my Twitter page. poker texas holdem,poker texas holdem gratis,texas holdem poker downloadsexy poker gratis7 [...]

I’ve been coding dashboard applications lately with Java SE. I have used JFreeChart library to generate all pie, line and bar charts. The library is awesome and is also Open Source. It would be very nice to see similar projects in the .NET world.
It was very easy to create first charts with JFreeChart mostly because [...]

I thought it was already Christmas as I just received a package from Sun Microsystems full of NetBeans goodies. I won these from the NetBeans.TV competition. Package included nice T-shirt, Rich Client Programming book, NetBeans pen, 1Gb memory stick and stress ball (or cube actually).
I have used NetBeans IDE 6.0 from the early daily builds [...]

I have had this idea of visualizing global networks and connections with 3d globe for a long time but haven’t had time to try it out. Now that I’ve been exploring possibilities of Java 3D I was able to implement this feature quite easily.
The current API looks like this:

Globe globe = new Globe(this);
globe.addConnection(”Finland”, “Germany”);
globe.addConnection(”Finland”, “Italy”);
globe.addConnection(”Finland”, [...]

The developing of Mobile Trail Explorer is progressing well. We have received excellent code contributions from the community as I’m proud to present the OpenStreetMap integration in Mobile Trail Explorer. Big thanks to Gareth and Dennis!

There are also other new features such as filtering recorded positions by maximum speed, minimum distance etc. Information view [...]

Social services have become very popular recently. I have already created an account to such sites as Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku and few others.
Twitter seems to be quite popular amongst geeks like me. It is a great platform for micro-blogging but as I really don’t want to use SMS messages to update my status on [...]

I think (and hope) that every developer have been in a situation where a very simple feature just doesn’t work even if everything looks to be okay. This happened to me today when I tried to do a simple thing: I wanted to change the default icon for my JFrame window:

First I tried the obvious [...]

I tried to find information about developing desktop applications with Bluetooth support using Java but it seems that most of the articles are concentrated in mobile J2ME implementations. Now that I wanted to develop desktop bluetooth application I thought that I’d write down how I managed to do so. Read on, if you are interested…