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HTTP POST from a J2ME midlet
Although there are several examples and tutorials about how to connect to an HTTP server from a J2ME Midlet, I found that they all seem to concentrate a lot on the details of a GET and the POST is always assumed as an “exercise to the reader.” Now, although it is indeed rather straightforward to…
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Microsoft Cabs
Apparently:If you hail a black cab you might be getting your ride to work for free, courtesy of Bill Gates. OK, it’s not as simple as that – nothing ever is. But if you happen to find a cab between 7.30 and 9.30 a.m. in London zone one or two with a Microsoft logo –…
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J2ME Multi-Threading and HTTP
Update: This is Part I of a two-part series about multi-threading in the J2ME environment, Part II can be found here.I have uploaded the source code to BitBucket, you can easily download it using Mercurial (see here for an intro) by simply using: https://marco@bitbucket.org/marco/j2me_threads … In my experience, one of the most difficult things to…
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Going International
I find rather amusing that, despite English not being my first language, I never really bothered looking into how to write software (and, in particular GUI components) using anything else than (tortured) English. Entirely by chance, yesterday I eventually looked into “Resource Bundles” that allow one to easily create an application in Java that will…
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Java Code Trips & Tips
The idea behind this blog is more to use it for my own personal benefit, as a means of annotating big and small discoveries in my use of Java, Linux, Tomcat and MySQL that would be easy to access from anywhere, anytime. It does beat post-it’s big time, and it also adds the benefit that…
Code Trips & Tips
Adventures in developing distributed systems in Go, Java , Python and C++
Code Trips & Tips 