Category: Programming

jYMSG: Yahoo Instant Messaging API for Java

Interesting, a Java API for using Yahoo! Messenger as a P2P backplane. A friend of mine made use of this for a little personal project. http://jymsg9.sourceforge.net/ I wonder if there's a .NET API. I looked but didn't find...

MusicProgrammingWindows

Tech talk

Did a tech talk today to show off a few Yahoo! Music Engine plugins and then show folks a bit about how to create their own. I wasn't expecting to be well enough to get up there and talk, but I'm feeling decent today so I did it...

Programming

Word of the day: Mashup

From Wikipedia: A Mashup is a web application created using the public interface or API of two or more third party applications. "Nowadays, there's a lot of talk about Web 2.0, web mashups, AJAX, etc., which in my mind are all...

BooksProgramming

Just finished “Software Development for Small Teams: A RUP-Centric Approach”

I just finished this book a couple of nights ago. It's a unique book. Whereas most technical books tell you the nuts and bolts of how to use a particular language, library, etc., this book is the story of how a group of folks got...

GeneralPalmPHPProgramming

PHP-PDB: PHP library for manipulating Palm OS databases

PHP-PDB is a set of PHP classes that manipulate Palm OS databases. It lets you read, write, alter, and easily use data that is meant to be sent to or retrieved from a handheld. http://php-pdb.sourceforge.net/...

GeneralProgramming

Eclipse CDT

Last night I ran through a couple of the tutorials for Eclipse CDT, the C/C++ development tools for the open-source Eclipse IDE. Impressions: I didn't see automatic code completion, along the lines of what the Visual Studio...

PalmProgramming

PRC-Tools: GCC for Palm OS

Here are some really rough notes on how I setup the prc-tools and the Palm OS 5 SDK on my Windows box with Cygwin. I jotted these down a few months ago and never published. I'm publishing now on the off chance that this may be...