Substance of Code

New release of Twim is once again out of the door.
With the latest version (v1.11) you will gain the following new features:

Twitgoo support. Now you can take a photo and send it directly to Twitgoo service.
Retweet feature fills up the status update box with the selected tweet.
Clock is shown in the bottom of the menu [...]

It seems that Twitter made some changes to their API since the Twim application just started to have some trouble when parsing the date stamps for the statuses. That turned out to be a simple bug that was causing it. The bug was fixed in a second but I couldn’t make a release before I [...]

I’m learning to use the git, distributed version control system. It seems to be much faster then Subversion that I have used with my Google Code projects. I just created a repository on GitHub for Mobidentica project. Source code is available under the Apache License 2.0. If you like to clone the repository, use this:
git [...]

I coded a prototype how we could record fewer GPS positions in Mobile Trail Explorer and therefore save some memory but still have the same level of detail of the trail. Video might explain it best. Unoptimized recording is on the left and optimized trail is on the right.

The algorithm simply checks if the current [...]

I just coded a new version of Mobidentica application. Now you can define custom service URL when logging in. This way you can use it with all services that are built on top of Laconi.ca platform. This is possible because Laconi.ca has built-in support for Twitter compatible API.
I just tried it with identi.ca and miggi.fi [...]

It took a while to make this release. There was some kinky issues with the S40 devices which caused them to crash on NoMethodFoundException (Issue 145). Release notes for v1.14:

New logo and icon (Thanks Ash)
Improved MapCache initialization time
Fixed information screen scrolling
Splash screen hang fix (Issue 106)
WGS84 coordinates in degrees and minutes (Issue 162, Thanks Marco [...]

My Twitter client, Twim, is getting a lot of positive feedback from users which is always nice to hear. There have also been few requests to create a version for Identi.ca service. Identi.ca is same soft of microblogging service as Twitter but maybe a bit different kind of users.
Today I spent few hours to create [...]

Here is my first software release for the year 2009. I just updated Twim client with the following new features:

Show direct messages
You can use unicode characters in your status updates
You can easily send direct messages from the menu

So if you are a Twitter fan then head yourself for example to Phoload page and download the [...]

I added UTF-8 encoding support to the Twim application. In case you didn’t know, Twim is Twitter client software that runs on all phones that support J2ME. With the latest version you should be able to see correct characters in tweets if your phone has required fonts available. Here’s for example my test tweet containing [...]

I was finally able to push the v1.13 release out of the door. There have been large amount of bug fixes that were annoying users in v1.12. There are also punch of excellent new features. Here’s the release notes for v1.13:

Option to prevent Map tiles from being downloaded over the network (Cached tiles will still [...]