Communications Features

After more than a year of intensive development the SIP Communicator project team is proud to announce a very first alpha1 release which is now available for download. The release offers support for instant messaging and presence for the Jabber, MSN and ICQ protocols, as well as support for 1 to 1 phone calls with SIP. The application is available in packages for Windows, Linux (Fedora, Debian and others), and Mac OS X.

Java 4 IPhone

IPhone and IPhone3G do not support A2DP technology. Now they do “A2DP is designed to transfer a uni-directional 2-channel stereo audio stream, like music from an MP3 player, to a headset or car radio.” - Wikipedia. This device will work on iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPod nano, iPod Color and iPod Mini. The price is $62 at brano. Specifications: [...]

Java 4 IPhone

Portelligent and Semiconductor Insights published a document describing interals of IPhone 3G. Techonline described the details. (Previous IPhone 3G internals photos can be viewed here) Commuunications (3G/GSM) are on Infineon chips. One for GSM/GPRS/EDGE, another for WCDMA/HSDPA (3G). GPS module is not SiRF as we all thought. Apple uses PMB 2525 Hammerhead II. The Hammerhead II [...]

Java 4 IPhone

There were many discussions about unlocked IPhone 3G. The first step is to buy the device without AT&T (or some other operator) subscribtion. There are rumors that without a contract IPhone will cost $600-$800 in the US. George Hotz in his blog says that the best way is to buy contract and cancel it. It [...]

Java 4 IPhone

How the new IPhone 3G passes stress tests? Put it in your pocket, scratch it with a key, drop it into your soup, wash it with a soap, drop it several times and cross it with a motorcycle. Don’t want to do it? PCWorld did that, take a look:

Java 4 IPhone

After successfull jailbreak of the IPhone/IPhone 3G with firmware 2.0 it is possible to install Cydia INstaller. And what is more exciting, there are many applications there, including Java. Related articles: Tutorial: install Java on the IPhone Tutorial: compile and run Java application on the IPhone screenshots are from iphoneapps.ru

Java 4 IPhone

The development sources for xpwn 0.3, the firmware 2.0 version of our cross-platform jailbreaking library/command-line utility have been pushed onto github. DevTeam tested it on Linux, Windows XP, and Windows Vista for both the iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G thus far, but since it uses the same FirmwareBundles files as PwnageTool, and we know those [...]

Java 4 IPhone

Ifixit recently published an article, describing how they had disassembeled the new IPhone 3G. Quite impressive. Especially taking into account that they bought it in New Zealand (it was 12:00 July 11 there when it was 5:00am July 10 in the US). Here are the internals: From top left to bottom right: Display glass, LCD, Main [...]

Java 4 IPhone

The Apple’s online store with applications for IPhone is opened. Here are some statistics provided by pinchmedia. They counted 559 applications - 421 of them paid, 138 of them free (7:00 PM EDT). Paid applications ranged in price from $0.99 to $69.99, with the most common price points being $0.99 (85 applications), $9.99 (82 applications), [...]

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Cupertine California—July 21, 2008—Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2008 third quarter ended June 28, 2008. Apple shipped 2,496,000 Macintosh computers during the quarter, representing 41% unit growth and 43% revenue growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 11,011,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 12% unit growth and 7% revenue growth over the [...]

Java 4 IPhone

It will be opened in Peking on the 19th of July. All personnel will speak both Enlish and Chineese, and it will be possible to get small consultations in other languages, for example in German. via DeepApple

Java 4 IPhone

Here are the updates: JocStrap - Java/Objective-C connection library, version 1.0.2466-17 (was 1.0.2466-15), IPhone/Java - examples of Java applications, version 1.0.2474-15 (was 1.0.2357-14) Cydia Installer, version 1.0.2473-64 (was 1.0.2460-59) Not a huge update, but still. Just in case you don’t have Cydia and Java installed on your IPhone, follow these instructions: Tutorial: install Java on the IPhone.

Java 4 IPhone

There is not much defference between Safari 1.1.4 and 2.0. But Under the hood, MobileSafari 2.0’s performance is hugely improved over 1.1.4. Everything related to web surfing feels faster, web pages consistently load faster on 2.0, both via Wi-Fi and EDGE. This has nothing to do with the new iPhone 3G hardware — this is [...]

Java 4 IPhone

Apple’s added the “Books” category to the AppStore, and has moved the e-books released by AppEngines and others there. Most of them cost $0.99. There are 115 books avaliable.

Java 4 IPhone

The objective of the phoneME project is to further expand the usage of Java™ Platform, Micro Edition (Java ME platform) technology in the mobile handset market. The goal in making these technologies available [...]

Java 4 IPhone

Pinchmedia recently announced new report regarding IPhone applications (take a look at the previous one here). They counted free and paid applications in each category. Guess what the results are: News and social networking are disproportionately free, since it’s difficult to charge for content that’s freely available elsewhere and social networks grow in value with the [...]

Java 4 IPhone

These two libraries that are needed for Java on IPhone were updated recently. Downloads are avaliable through Cydia Installer. Jocstrap is a bridge between Java and Objective-C. UICaboodle is a JocStrap extenstion for the IPhone. Both are needed to write Java applications for IPhone.

Java 4 IPhone

Eric Klein, vice president of Sun Microsystems, Java Marketing anounced that Sun will be developing a Java VM for the Apple’s IPhone. This JVM will be based on Java Micro Edition and will allow IPhone to launch thousands of existing and new Java applications. “Once our JVM is on the phone, we anticipate that a [...]

Weiqi Gao's Observations

[Note] I started this blog 7 days ago but didn't finish it on time. I'm finishing it up now. The current date will be November 13, 2009 starting from the next sentence.

"Relentless reduction of complexity" is a phrase I picked up from Alex Payne's keynote at the Strange Loop 2009 conference 21 days ago. Of all the things that was said during conference, this phrase resonated with me the most.

Yesterday, at the St. Louis JUG, Brian Gilstrap gave a very well thought-out, compelling presentation on RESTful Web Services using JAX-RS and Jersey. While the overall subject is interesting, it is a "little" comment that Brian made that struck me: "I created a mini-framework just so that I don't have to repeat the same line of code in every class."

Then, as if to reinforce this Minimalist theme, Richard Bair of the JavaFX team posted Looping in FX today in his and Jasper Potts's FX Experience blog in which he outlined the evolution of loop construct in the JavaFX SDK, going from a Java-ish

public function hideAll():Void {
    for ( i in [0..sizeof this.childrenPopups] ) {
        if (this.childrenPopups[i].visible) {
            this.childrenPopups[i].hideAll();
        }
    }
    hide();
}

to a JavaFX-ish

public function hideAll():Void {
    for (p in childrenPopups where p.visible) {
        p.hideAll();
    }
    hide();
}

In both Brian's and Richard's instance they have achieved "code that works" first, but their professionalism and pursuit of excellence carried them further, to make the code simpler and more elegant.

I admire their approach to writing great code profoundly. And I think producing not merely passably working code but elegantly organized crystal clear code is a trait that serious programmers should acquire, perfect, and made a habit.

Down Home Country Coding With Scott Selikoff and Jeanne Boyarsky

What happened Time Warner Cable (in New York City) pushed a software upgrade to the cable box that got rid of the VCR timer feature.  This feature has existed since I got cable and allowed you to set the cable box to turn on/change channels automatically so you could record them on your VCR or standalone [...]