Substance of Code

I have been thinking about moving my source code to a hosting service like SourceForge or other *Forge site as I would then be able to use issue management systems for my projects. I have used the CVSDude’s Subversion services for now but now that I found out that Google has a service for hosting [...]

Leading operator in Spain, Telefónica, have published my article “How to create a J2ME MIDP RSS Reader application with NetBeans 4.0″ in their website for developers (MovilForum). The site seams to be mostly in Spanish. The article can be found under the Tutorials / Java section.

NetBeans have released 5.0 Beta versions from the IDE and the Mobility Pack. The interesting new feature in the IDE is the Matisse form editor that even surpasses the Microsoft Visual Studio’s GUI editors in some areas.
What’s new in Mobility Pack 5.0:

Improved Wireless Connection Bridge - easily access web services and other server-side data [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

My website has now been moved here: http://koti.mbnet.fi/surface. Old website (http://www.tpu.fi/~eetomla) won’t work after a while because I have finally graduated as a Bachelor of Science in Software engineering from Tampere Polytechnic.So now I have been able to upgrade my site and I’m also slowly trying to become acquainted with this weblog that seems to [...]