Making it happen
Archive for October, 2007
Mobile presence
Oct 31st
Nice article about Google, Jaiku and the future (via Dragos), Nokia has been doing this for ages (at least 3 years back), too bad it never “took off” – the main reason for that is in my opinion not partnering with carriers to use their Nokia Presence Server.
Nokia had also pioneered bluetooth social networking with Nokia Sensor, again a very old application that has never been successful despite being backed by the famous mobile phone company, this should be a lesson to learn for the followers.
Internetics conferences
Oct 31st
Just came back from the Internetics event here in Bucharest, attended only the two first presentations. It wasn’t very interesting, the guy that presented was touting Microsoft WPF for implementing interfaces with great experience that users would be delighted to use, he insisted on the WPF readers for New York Times and Daily Mail, nothing revolutionary, why invent a useless program instead of better designing your website.
scanf_s security enhancements
Oct 30th
My friend Adrian points me to scanf_s that is not usable just by simple replacing scanf( src, “%s”, dest) with scanf_s but you also have to add an additional parameter for every string or character read, specifying the buffer size. For example, if dest was char dest[10] you’d have to write scanf_s( src, “%s”, dest, 10), otherwise an access violation will occur.
infoarena blog
Oct 27th
Infoarena, the only (?) site in Romania about the CS contests, algorithms etc, has a blog.
wordpress.com http headers
Oct 25th
ROFL – here are the http headers for any blog hosted on wordpress.com:
X-hacker: If you’re reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header.
X-Pingback: http://xxxxx.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php
Vary: Cookie
…. etc
Early Jaiku source code
Oct 25th
Mika Raento from Jaiku shares the source code of ContextPhone, the product that was the basis for the successful Jaiku product. It’s full of gems and, if you are coding for Symbian, go check it out.
Vista multiple file permissions
Oct 25th
I have no idea why but in Vista it’s not possible anymore to select lots of files and change their access permissions (the Security tab does not appear). The only way to do that is using the icacls command-line utility, for example run this to grant full access for Everyone for all the files in the current folder:
icacls *.* /grant Everyone:(F)
UMA is the next buzzword …
Oct 24th
… from Nokia, and 6301 is its first mobile phone to support it. I’m still wondering how many operators will support this considering the wlan-based free calls – a business model may be installing hotspots in crowded areas and charging for voip (less than for gsm of course) ?
Remote device access
Oct 23rd
Dragos points me to mobilecomplete, well, Nokia has something similar: RDA.
Connection timeout in J2ME
Oct 22nd
Bluetooth async connections in J2ME can theoretically be implemented by using another thread to timeout blocking operations … except, just a second, how can you stop Connector.open ? Let’s leave that to the server where I am trying to authenticate – oh wait, that doesn’t timeout neither ?
