I have recently been exploring Bluetooth technology with Java. The BlueCove project provides an easy to use, platform-independent library for using local and remote Bluetooth devices. If you aren’t pleased with BlueCove, you can use the J2ME version distributed by Sun. So, what can you do with Bluetooth? In short, just about anything. There aren’t [...]
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Will Fitch
Jan 12
|20:11
I have updated the zip code web service to fix some issues with the data returned from getLocalTime. Prior to this fix, only the 12 hour format was displayed without the proper meridiem (AM or PM). The time was also off by one hour. This fix adds two additional children: currentMilitaryTime – The 24 hour [...]
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Will Fitch
Nov 9
|22:50
Since the writing of my namespace post things have changed. The voting is in (so it’s said) and the new namespace separator is the backslash “\” character. That’s right, the escape sequence character. This is caused an uproar in the community and I’m personally not a fan of it. At the same time (and after [...]
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Will Fitch
Aug 21
|22:57
PHP 5.3 alpha1 has been released and is ready for those who wish to participate in learning new functionality as well as testing the code and documentation. This is a big milestone for PHP as it includes the much requested namespace functionality. In conjunction with namespaces, this release includes some new features including NOWDOCS – [...]
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Will Fitch
Apr 29
|20:01
A web service is a way for systems to communicate over a network. They can be as simple as an API (e.g. Google Maps) or as complex as a brokered system that handles transactions for multiple requesters and/or providers. Web services bring with them some huge advantages. Data is packaged via HTTP or HTTPS and [...]
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