Javia blog

Since the 1st of January, 2007, Romania (and Bulgaria) is a member of the European Union. That’s great, congratulations to Romania and Bulgaria for making it. (I’m Romanian myself, and yes this EU accession does feel good).

The open-moko phone (FIC Neo) is now scheduled for release in February 2007. I can’t wait to get one. Its release becomes even more interesting in light of the recent Apple’s IPhone annoncement, as the two phones, despite many similarities, are at the two extremes of freedom: Open-Moko comes with full open source code, while IPhone doesn’t allow instalation of third-party applications and comes with a 2-year contract.

The MIDP 3.0 (JSR 271) early draft is available for download. This draft is the best way to find out now what MIDP 3.0 will bring; it should be an interesting read for anybody involved with JavaME. The most important addition seems to be the concept of libraries (which can be shared between midlets).

For the first time, I am a participant in the Carnival of the Mobilists (edition #58), with my article JAD is Bad (which argues that the JAD concept introduces un-needed complexity).

I’ve started working with Django, which is a Python web framework. A nice thing about Django is that the source code is relativelly small and readable, so it’s easy to check the code out in order to see how it works or to fix things. (reading code is also a good way to learn a programming language). I’ve already submitted a patch regarding the append-slash redirection.

I’ve written a small Python library called Python Mobile User Agent, which analyzes the User-Agent HTTP header in order to detect whether it belongs to a mobile device (and attempts to extract the mobile’s vendor/model from the User-Agent). This is useful for server-side content adaptation, where a web application generates a different variant of a page for a mobile browser vs. a desktop browser. The library is based on Craig Manley’s perl/php MobileUserAgent library. I’ve put my library on Google code hosting (under the MIT license) in order to get a feeling of how Google code hosting works.

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