Now this process isn’t 100% ideal. If you are an experienced developer you probably already know you need four key components. Rapc compiler Signature tool Simulator Javaloader The first two components works fabulously in Linux. The second (signature tool) needs a kick in the pants to work (shame shame shame!). The third is hit or [...]
This was actually pretty trivial since the MDS simulator is pure Java, and a good portion of it is actually just Tomcat. Since Tomcat is not developed by RIM, the chances where pretty good that there where no hard coded backslash directory separators (no, I will never let that go) MDS simulator log output All [...]
8800 Simulator in Wine/Linux Call me crazy but I just can’t seem to accept that if you want to (or have to) write BlackBerry software you’re stuck with Windows. It bugs me. There is good news and bad news regarding the simulator. The good news is with a recent version of Wine you can actually [...]
Being obsessive and all, I decided to sit down and figure out why the signature tool doesn’t seem to work in Linux. After all it’s a rather trivial Java application. I suspected from the start that the symptom was some sloppy programming on RIM’s part, hard coding Windows style path names and my suspicion was [...]
I received an email from Keith Neufeld (awesome electronics blog) about my Arduino LCD library with some tips on how to improve it. So over the weekend I dived in and did just that. Specifically, this version removes the hard coded delays after each command is sent to the LCD and checks the LCD’s busy [...]
I’ve written a library for interfacing the Arduino with HD44780 based LCD modules. For now it lives here on my site, but if it’s popular enough it might need to move somewhere like the Arduino Playground. Check out the Arduino LCD Library page for more details. Here is a short video demonstrating an animation sample.
In this two part series I’m going to try my best to describe how I use Apache Ant and Eclipse to write/debug software for the BlackBerry platform.
So I’m watching High Fidelity and thought I would make a top 5 list of my own. So top 5 dream jobs: Robot maker Prop maker for the movie industry Google Python developer Bar owner BlackBerry software developer I don’t really want to be a BlackBerry developer but I had a hard time coming up [...]
You know what I’m tired of? I’m sick of people in my MSN list having HUGE nick names. I come from a time when ICQ was the messenger and even then it was a cute little gimmick that people familiar with IRC laughed at. Regardless a nick name should be one to three words long [...]
Ok, so you have an arcade joystick which you either built or bought but you really want to play some “Golden Tee” or “Marble Madness”. Well you could buy an arcade trackball already assembled, or if you are lucky enough to find one for cheap at a surplus store you can be a man and [...]
