Monthly Archives: December 2006

Menstral’s new feature: SMS transfer

7th
Dec. × ’06

Menstral is a menstrual calendar (also called called cycle or ovulation calendar) application I wrote one year ago.
Menstral 1.9.0, released today, adds an interesting new feature that I’ve called SMS Transfer: it allows you to send your calendar data, through SMS, from one Menstral instance to another Menstral instance running on a different phone.
This is [...]

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6th
Dec. × ’06

I’d like to thank the blogs that linked to my article “Assembly Java”, a post written with a certain amount of irony, as I can’t consider its so-called hints and tips good advice myself. This was the very first publicly read article from my blog and it marked, so to say, my debut in the [...]

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Javia Calculator early access starts today

4th
Dec. × ’06

My newest application, Javia Calculator,
is available for early-access download; go try it out while it’s hot.
Javia Calculator is (you guess!) a calculator for mobile phones (requires CLDC-1.1).
Well, one more calculator… but one won’t stay in your way when you’re trying to get the result.
It features trigonometric functions, logarithms, user-defined functions and constants, history navigation, implicit [...]

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JAD is BAD

2nd
Dec. × ’06

JAD is an acronym for Java Application Descriptor. JAR comes from Java Archive.
In the MIDP world, the JAD is a small text file (with the extension .jad) which contains a few lines of information about a Midlet application.
An example JAD file:

MIDlet-1: Menstral, /M.gif, M
MIDlet-Name: Menstral
MIDlet-Vendor: Mihai Preda
MIDlet-Version: 1.8.11
MicroEdition-Configuration: CLDC-1.0
MicroEdition-Profile: MIDP-1.0
MIDlet-Jar-URL: http://menstral.net/Menstral.jar
MIDlet-Jar-Size: 31105

Noteworthy inside the JAD [...]

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