Substance of Code

My previous posting “Using Bluetooth stack in desktop application” was quite a success if measured by the number of comments. It seems that there aren’t many tutorials or articles about the Desktop usage of Bluetooth.
Here is a next chapter in the same category: using Bluetooth to send files from a computer to a mobile phone.

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I’m nowadays working in an international company which has offices in multiple countries. I was looking for a way to get our Confluence, Enterprise Wiki, to display current time in all of our offices in one page. I didn’t find any simple solutions as lots of services just provided me a chunk of HTML that [...]

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 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…

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 [...]

There were some anonymous requests for releasing a BlackBerry version of the RSS Reader MIDlet so I took the challenge and was able to build a version for BlackBerry. The application seems to work with the BlackBerry emulator and according to the anonymous comment it installs over the air on the actual device. Here are [...]

The NetBeans IDE’s new GUI builder called Matisse have gotten my attention since until this editor I had lost the hope for decent desktop Java application development. Now the project Matisse have taken the GUI building to the same level as seen in recent Microsoft Visual Studios. I’m sure that we’ll see some interesting Java [...]