With all the noise about iPhones, gPhones, Androids, and SDKs floating about, I decided to try my hand at writing an application using the Android SDK. Sticking with my tradition of creating Blackjack games as part of my learning process, I decided to port my Echo2 version of my Blackjack game over to the […]
After creating a Simple FLV Player using ActionScript 3.0, I decided to extend my learning by going through the process of creating a simple MP3 player using ActionScript 3.0 and Flex 2. For requirements, all I wanted my MP3 player to do was play from a static list of MP3 files and have controls allowing […]
As part of my ongoing pursuit of learning a wide variety of technologies, I decided to see what ActionScript 3.0 was all about. As part of my learning, I decided I wanted to join the ever growing crowd of people that have “created” their own FLV Players. I knew people weren’t actually creating the video […]
After a few days of attempting to connect to http://www.jseamless.org, I was finally able to download the binaries and see if it was as wonderful as I hoped it would be. Since I had recently went through a quick implementation, though hack might be more appropriate, of a simple single player Blackjack game using […]
On May 22, 2007, I read an article, jSeamless - UI Abstraction for Java, by Matthew Hicks, on TheServerSide.com that mentioned jSeamless 1.0 Beta 3 was available for download. I had not been following these types of technologies, but the concept sounded extremely interesting to me. As a former thick client developer, I thought the concept of […]
I know this is beating a dead horse, but I was recently part of a discussion with a fellow developer that did not see the value of checked exceptions. I realize my position is arguable, but I see checked exceptions as a valuable part of the Java language. Checked exceptions communicate to the implementor that […]
What am I doing here? Another blog? What is it to be a successful blog writer? Actually, that is a poor question. Truly, I think the term blog sounds disgusting. For some reason it reminds me of vomit or barf, which amuses me to no end. To think of […]