A tour of the Mac Lab at Microsoft – 2000 square feet and LOTS of computers.
J2ME Development on NetBeans 5.0 in Mac OS X
For a long time Mac OS X was the one platform left out when it comes to developing MIDlets. There where soultions from SUN for Windows, Linux & obviously Solaris. There was no official build for the amazing NetBeans Mobility Pack for the Mac … well, there still isn’t one but I looked around a bit in the gathered knowledge of mankind which is the WWW and found the blog of Lukas Hasik. He has a fairly well written documentation of how to achieve a working development environment on Mac OS X.
In this post I’d like to summarize the nessecary steps as well as make a few annotations where I ran into difficulties while following the described steps.
Flashbag – Inflating USB Drive
This caught my eye while surfing the web today.
The Flashbag is a normal USB thumb drive with a little pump in it. It inflates with the amount of data you store on it. Even when not connected it stays inflated so you can always estimate how much space you’ve got left.
It is still a proof of concept and you can’t buy it anywhere. But in my eyes this is a really good example of creative tech design 🙂
BlogTalk Reloaded
BlogTalk Reloaded – the conference
is scheduled for Oct 2-3, 2006.
It will be held in Vienna, Austria
Seems like the crazy Web 2.0 conference hype is also slowly attacking my homecountry. Blogtalk which will be held in October is already the third occurrence of this gathering. The general theme will be “Social Software” in all it’s aspects.
Read more about their Mission on the Page.
Following the international success of BlogTalk 1.0 and 2.0, Blogtalk Reloaded – that will be held in Vienna, Austria – is expanding its focus to Social Software, while remaining committed to the diverse cultures, practices and tools of our emerging networked society.
The conference is designed to maintain a sustainable dialog between developers, innovative scholars who study social software, users in corporate and educational settings, and the general community of users.
The whole thing will be held at Techgate in Vienna.
UPDATE:
We decided to extend the deadline for software related proposals to May 31.
Please circulate this info as we want to attract more developer proposals and mix them with the other crowd.
PLease submit project drafts, protptype ideas, and concepts.
06.04.2006 – 7:21 pm GMT
…so if you think you have something to talk about, don’t hesitate and send in your proposal.