April 21, 2010
The other day, I was enjoying a rather well designed Java-based game in my Firefox browser. Afterwards, I couldn’t help but reflect on the usefulness and power of Java – specifically how web-embedded Java applets work. In the corporate environment where I work, Java is considered the web application tool of choice for developing browser [...]
March 19, 2010
Today, most applications for Windows Mobile 6 and 6.5 are CAB files that do not need Java to run. But there are a lot of older applications and some made for other platforms that use .JAD files or something similar. To run these, your device would need to have Java for Windows Mobile installed. There is [...]
February 1, 2010
As you might be aware, flashcards are a set of cards which generally have a question on one side and the answer on the reverse. You read the question, try to remember the answer and then flip sides to reveal the answer. Repeating the same process over and over again helps in memorizing. Flash cards [...]
December 27, 2009
Over the summer the company I worked for sent me to a “Java Programming Boot Camp” held by Sun Microsystems in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The expectation for that course was that it would make me an entry level Java developer–after all, this was Sun’s general summary of the course. What I learned that summer was that you [...]
November 27, 2009
Money is something that we all have to think about on a regular basis. Without cash in our pockets or a credit card in our wallets, we’re effectively useless in this world. How would we buy food, pay bills and clothe ourselves? How would we do anything? I’ve always taken a special interest in ways [...]
October 30, 2009
As per my other articles on MakeUseOf about making the most of your cell phone such as my piece on Snaptu or using your phone as a modem, I thought I’d write a piece about getting your RSS feeds on your mobile. I have this set up because I don’t often use Google reader. I [...]
April 11, 2009
Ever get tired of all those windows open on your desktop? Want an easier alternative way to browse and quickly access your folders? Have a look at Hawkscope. A 2 MB download, Hawkscope requires JRE (Java Runtime Environment) to be installed on your computer. If you don’t have it installed, it will take you to [...]
February 23, 2009
Most programmers are not just desktop programmers, web programmers or scripting gurus – they are often all of the above. Over time, most software developers find that it’s much easier to re-use code components than it is to recreate the wheel every time you write an application. Over time, these developers typically archive a library of [...]
February 7, 2009
Most of us have the Java Run time Environment on our Windows computers. Not because we like Java or Sun Micro systems but JRE allows us to play some on-line games and run specific small applications also referred to as applets. I won’t go into the nitty gritty because you probably don’t care but if [...]
