http://blog.lightvoid.net Ruby, Mobile, Games and Programming Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:14:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Quite a fun problem. Installing an application from the JAD says invalid JAR on some Nokias, but installing direct from the JAR works fine. The problem as it turns out, is that there is a bug on some Nokias where if the version ends in a 0 (i.e 1.1.0), it says its ... http://blog.lightvoid.net/2008/05/02/nokia-invalid-jar/ Kernel.fork is used to start a subprocess, which is sometimes needed over just a Ruby thread (which is still part of the current process). Unfortunately it doesn't work on Windows because Windows doesn't support the fork(2) command. However, it does work under cygwin! Which is really useful :) http://blog.lightvoid.net/2008/04/29/ruby-kernelfork-on-windows/ There is a way to get Blackberry to be built and signed, on Mac, Linux & Windows. Heres how: BB Ant tools Need I say more? Well for the most part no, these tools work exactly like described. All you need is the JDE bin and lib folders, and the ant tasks ... http://blog.lightvoid.net/2008/04/28/automated-blackberry-sign-tool-mac-linux-windows/ Had a strange thing happen with the Nearme app I'm working on. When installed onto the phone memory, the app is blistering fast on my N95. But when installed onto the mass memory (memory card), it runs incredibly slow during network activity. It just sounds like bad threading code, but the ... http://blog.lightvoid.net/2008/04/26/j2me-threading-issues-on-nokia-s60/ I asked myself a question: "Hmm, I wonder if its possible to sync my N95 with my mac". My answer: "Doubt it"... Funny that, I am now not only able to sync my N95 with my Mac, I also don't need todo anything because it does it all automatically when I ... http://blog.lightvoid.net/2008/04/10/n95-sync-on-mac/ So what did I think of Over the Air? Well I will definitely be going next year, thats for sure. It was great fun, and very informative too. When your so focused on developing a product, its sometimes easy to loose track of the bigger picture. Events like these really help ... http://blog.lightvoid.net/2008/04/10/over-the-air-wrap-up/ This session was with Dr. Paul Coulton of mobileradicals - Lancaster University. Despite the misleading title, it was not a talk about big purple sunglasses! It was about creating uniquely mobile experiences. And it was great. The session was really thought provoking, and ideas where whizzing through my head almost constantly. I really ... http://blog.lightvoid.net/2008/04/10/over-the-air-silly-glasses/ This session was with 2 guys from Idean; Petri Heiskanen and Harri Lehmuskallio. I think this was a fantastic session. It was great how the discussion evolved into a open dialogue between the speakers and the audience, and for me it was really great to see interaction between an artist and ... http://blog.lightvoid.net/2008/04/10/over-the-air-visual-design-on-mobile/ This session was with Tomi Mickelsson from Idean. I'm embarrassed to say that although I have downloaded the Android SDK, I have not really had time to take a good look at it. This session was good for me, because it allowed me to see a bit more in depth what ... http://blog.lightvoid.net/2008/04/10/over-the-air-prototyping-on-android/ This is a post using Scribe on my N95. I had an issue after installing it, which was fixed by reinstalling python and scribe into phone memory. There seems to be problems if they are not both installed there. http://blog.lightvoid.net/2008/04/08/test/