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Filip’s blog about mobile technology, tech itself and other stuff

Another cup of Java?
30 September 2004 in Code-ing | Comments (0)

Java version 5, or is it 1.5 — I’m not sure about Sun’s versioning scheme — has been released today. Code named Tiger (as Apple’s next version of Mac OS X for some reason) this update to the Java language brings some fixes to the language syntax and such. The more interesting ones in my opinion is that they finally use the normal Windows open/save dialogs and longawaited speed fixes to the JRE.

This is in overview nothing interesting and I don’t know if I dare to download the latest version of JRE, J2ME or J2SE or whatever the name is for the thingy-that-compiles-Java-on-my-computer. One thing is sure: Sun is too messy in their versioning schemes and naming schemes for their products. Even their website is hard to navigate, in one moment it is too oversimplifies, in the other it is too much at once. In conclusion, I burned my fingers on the previous versions of Java and I’m quite sure don’t think I’ll like this version either…

( I think I’ll return to toying with Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta meanwhile… )

Firefox and Safari bugs fixed
29 September 2004 in Code-ing | Comments (0)

If you have previously visited my site using Mozilla Firefox/Netscape Navigator or Apple Safari aka. KDE Konqueror, then today my site should look better! (Some of the sub-pages, e.g. contact form, aren’t fixed yet.)

I got the bug fixed that Opera and IE didn’t care about: the table’s height got crappy in Mozilla and Konquerer rendering engines. To fix this I had to set the font and font size for the TD elements in my table using CSS. I think it is very strange that they do not follow the height setting that they should know to follow. Even weirder is that I have to set a font size to set the table height…

Anyways, here is the piece of CSS code I used to fix the layout problem:

TD{
font-family: Trebuchet MS, palatino, georgia, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 5px;
}

Feel free to use it on your site and experiment with it to see if it helps you.

TimeContinuum update
28 September 2004 in Code-ing & Pocket PC | Comments (0)

TimeContinuum — the free time sync software for Windows Mobile platform — is close to public beta release! Here is an action-screenshot of the latest build running in landscape mode:

It now has got the possibility for you to add your own personal time server to the list and everything seems to work really stable at this stage!

TC works well under Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition in portrait, landscape and VGA. Although, I haven’t optimized it for VGA specifically, WM emulator manages to adjust it for VGA screen. I might implement support for VGA resolution if I can ever get a Pocket PC with VGA screen (they are taking forever here).

Now you might be wondering when this will be ready. Soon, my friends, soon… (I’ve got a lot of work to do still: icons for TimeContinuum, a bunch of reviews and, naturally, my studies to do.)

Keeping on coding…
8 September 2004 in Code-ing | Comments (0)

What have I been doing lately? Well, fact is, I started (or rather resumed) my studies at University of Vaasa. Besides enjoying the view and weather over at the UoV campus, I’ve been killing time by programming some software for the Windows Mobile platform and another software for PC.