Yesterday at JavaOne, Sun Microsystems announced support for the BDLive.com Developer’s disc. So, what is BD Live? It consists of software and network services that allow the quick creation of
If I didn’t know better, I would’ve thought I was at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Vegas yesterday morning instead of the opening keynote at the JavaOne 2008 Conference in
If you’ve been living under a rock for the last month, you may not have heard about the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week. As I’m the Mistress
The launch of the DevXtra Editors’ Blog is bound to raise the YAB (yet another blog) questions: Why, and why now? Those are fair in an age when everyone with
The Semantic Web is a vision, an idea, a base-set of technologies. It’s not something Dad picks up at the computer store. It’s not something the press understands very well. It’s certainly
’ve been doing mobile software development of one sort or another for time out of mind. Some of the first serious programs I wrote were for an HP-41CX calculator for
oftware engineering is all about choices. Choices have to be weighed: performance vs. scalability, complexity vs. flexibility, pros vs. cons, and good vs. poor design. In mobile application development, we
hen choosing the technology and target platform for your mobile project or application, you will find several possibilities. There are several kinds of mobile phone platforms available and most have
his article walks through creating a Java mobile application for a J2ME-enabled mobile camera device. While it does not cover all of the neccesary aspects in depth, it does describe