Russell Beattie shares his experiences with developing for really expensive cel phones.  He touches on SDK shortcomings, J2ME headaches, and some cool stuff too.  It’s definately worth a read even if you’re not considering developing for the platform.

Alan Cooper imparts 14 principles of polite applications.  I’ll read it in depth in the morning, but right now #4:

Polite Software Has Common Sense.

Google has recently cached the updated version of my weblog.  The googlebot is still choking on my blogroll.  Perhaps I should rename and relink miniXmlCoffeeMug.gif, or I might just get rid of the pictures completely.  Something like:

Site Title [rss]
Site Title [rss]
Site Title [rss]
Site Title [rss]
Site Title [rss]

I think I like that.  Over the weekend (Sunday) I’m going to be helping a friend with some Java, and I’m going to try to sink my teefus into the Radio Aggregator XML-RPC interface.  We shall see.

I’m also the 77th Matt on google.  We’ll see if this changes after the googlebot crawls my content and not just half my blogroll…

(Not so) mental note: take a look at Jetty.

David Watson has made the switch.

The Apache Axis team has done a fantastic job of putting together an excellent 1.0 release. And I’m especially thrilled that I can deploy easily on jetty without the weight of a full-blown J2EE server.

[via Sam Ruby]

Jerry Cooperstein at O’Reilly’s OnLamp talks about multithreading in the upcoming 2.6 kernel:

Recent advances in Linux’s threading implementation are expected to continue to ease migration from other Unix-like operating systems. These advancements have arrived with intense activity on two fronts. First, thread-handling improvements have greatly enhanced the kernel’s scalability even to thousands of threads. Second, there are now two fresh, competing implementations of the POSIX pthreads standard (NGPT and NPTL) set to replace the aging LinuxThreads library.

Slashdot covers an announcement of the Waypath Project:

Remember the recent slashdot story on NASA cancelling the moon hoax book? Wonder what other weblogs are saying about the subject? Launched today (in beta), the Waypath Project is an attempt to network the weblog community, connecting weblogs that share common themes, ideas, and topics. The Waypath Project’s Related Weblog Navigation engine analyzes weblog entries to determine their core conceptual makeups, compares them with one another to find out how related they are, and presents you with its best guess as to what’s related to your original input. This is done all automatically.

The site documentation is interesting– what would you do if you were implementing a similar system?  I notice that they poll weblogs.com.  No need to manually add my weblog.  🙂

It’s being slashdotted, so be gentle.

Joe Walnes weighs in on the UI debate:

As sad as it sounds, when I’m designing a UI and I have to think about layout, shortcut keys, MDI/SDI, menu structure, skin, tab-order, input widgets, etc – more often than not, the Outlook-way is more desirable than the right-way.

It looks like Java 1.4_01 broke something for Russell Beattie:

ARRRGGH. Java 1.4.1_01 broke the scroll wheel in JOE. WHY??!? Frigin’ Sun, will you please get your head out of your collective asses?

Thank goodness it’s OSS so I can go in and see what the problem is… it’s probably trying to use an old scrollwheel workaround for 1.3 and ignoring 1.4’s support for it. But still. UGH!!!

Yes, it’s true:

Busy times. No time to blog in the past two weeks. We’re doing a major redesign of the newtelligence website, which will finally be fully dynamic, web service enabled and the new home for my blog. I’ve written a news aggregation service using all the good stuff in the .NET Framework and a bunch of ASP.NET controls for this.

A quick roundup of the Aggregator API:

• Aggregator API page at Userland
• First radio-dev thread about implementation, including how to update Radio to test
• Information on the API glue scripts
• New features/things chaging
• aggregator.getLastScanInfo (username, password) returns struct
• aggregator.getRecentItems (numberOfItems, username, password) returns struct
• aggregator.getItem (itemId, username, password) returns struct
• aggregator.deleteItem (itemId, username, password) returns boolean
• aggregator.deleteItems (itemIdArray, username, password) returns boolean

Mike Beam at O’Reillynet has part one of a multipart tutorial on adding Rendezvous into Cocoa apps.  Here’s the teaser:

As Cocoa developers, what do we need to know about Rendezvous? And how can we effectively use it in our applications? These are questions that I want to answer in today’s column.

Today is officially Fuzzy Friday.  I forgot my glasses at home.  I think growing up with a green phosphorescent screen on the family 8088 was detrimental to my eyesight…

Cinelerra is an audo and video compositing program much like Broadcast 2000 was before it was pulled due to nastygrams from lawyers.  From the description:

If you want to make movies, you want the compositing and editing that the big boys use, you want the efficiency of an embedded UNIX operating system combined with the power of a general purpose PC, or you just want to defy the establishment, the time has come to download Cinelerra.

Also of note are pointers to simpler video editing apps:

Cinelerra is not for consumer use. If ease of use, simplicity, and convenience are your thing, you should use Virtualdub, Kino, MJPEG tools or MainActor instead.

There is also linkage to the sourceforge project page.

Here’s to you, Mr. 2.4 kernel tree maintainer…

CNet/Jim Hu reports that Yahoo is decreasing its six core departments to five:

The new major divisions are search and marketplace, media and sales, consumer services, network services, and enterprise solutions.

Amazon is hiring a former Yahoo chief scientist to make their darn good algorithms even better:

Udi Manber, who will also become a vice president at the online retailer, worked at Yahoo for four years and previously taught computer science at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Arizona. Manber, who has focused on search technology and algorithms, is the author of “Introduction to Algorithms–A Creative Approach.”

CNet/Mike Ricciuti:

At a software development conference in Seattle, Gates will detail improvements planned for its Visual C++ tool, which is included in its Visual Studio.Net bundle. Microsoft on Thursday disclosed planned revisions for its Visual C# tool, also included in the Visual Studio.Net.

Here’s an interesting open source project that might prove useful to some people.  The project is called Blogrouter.  Here’s a description:

Blogrouter is a Perl-based mail script for receiving email messages and inserting them into a Blogger or similar Weblog. Image attachments are automatically incorporated into the Weblog text. Blogrouter can be installed as a programmatic mail recipient or invoked from procmail, and supports multiple users.

This might be an over-engineered way to automate blogging, create a metaweblog from various other weblog sources, or do other stuff that I haven’t thought of.  This is definately an interesting project, and one that I will do my best to keep an eye on.

 

Ask pointed out an excellent trailer: The 25th Hour.  I’ve only viewed it once, but it has the potential to be a great movie.  I also took a look at Ticker, the new 8 minute BMW film/commercial.  It was excellent also.