Saturday, November 05, 2005

I've decided to move from using Radio Userland to a Blogger weblog hosted on my own domain. I've been using Linux for the past couple of years and it's proven too painful to keep using the Radio Userland software under Wine. No more posts will be added to this weblog, or any of its categories. The new weblog is here and the atom feed is here. 5:56:28 PM

	Friday, October 21, 2005

Joseph Strout sent me a link to an idea he had for improving text input methods in devices with no keyboards. It sounds look a good area for experimentation, especially the pen/stylus input method. From the sounds of it you end up remembering 'gestures' for words, or parts of words, to enable faster input. The gestures are mapped to a hexagonal grid of letters optimized for the input language. 10:59:35 AM

	Tuesday, October 18, 2005

From Helen's Techblog: Snippets, a site for storing small code snippets which can be tagged, searched for, etc. Pretty neat. There's a distinct lack of Lisp snippets there though...need to work on that. They have a 'series 60' tag for mobile phone programming snippets on the Symbian OS which looks quite useful. 10:32:51 AM

	Wednesday, January 19, 2005

All About Symbian have got a very positive review of the Nokia 9300. 8:13:08 AM

	Thursday, January 13, 2005

I came across QConsole today which looks like a useful developer utility for Symbian phones. It connects to the phone via bluetooth, giving you a console that enables you to navigate the filesystem, query running tasks, etc. Linux only. 12:45:37 PM

	Wednesday, January 12, 2005

My Symbian has a review of the Nokia 7710. Although not yet available for general sale in New Zealand, some people are selling units on the auction site TradeMe. 1:33:31 PM

Recently I've been writing a few programs for my Series 60 Symbian cellphone that accesses bluetooth devices. I've been using Borland's Mobile Studio V1.5 which has some visual components for Series 60 development, including bluetooth components. There was little documentation for these so I've written a document outlining how to use these components to talk to a Bluetooth GPS to extract the NMEA data as it arrives from the GPS: Developing for a Bluetooth GPS on Symbian Series 60 cellphones with C++. 10:16:37 AM

	Friday, December 24, 2004

Matt Croydon posts about extending the Python implementation on the Symbian Series 60 phones. I played with the implementation briefly last night and it's very nice. Well done Nokia! Scripts can be run a number of ways: You can send Python scripts to the phone and run them. Type them in via the phone keypad in a running interpreter instance (not very practical I admit). Via bluetooth, GPRS or some other connection, connect to the phone interpreter from your PC and type and test code from there. Some good documentation is included along with an API reference for the phone functions and quite a few examples. This gives me some ideas on how to progress my Io language port and to get other language implementations running. What would really be nice is to be able to see the source to the Python port to help with getting other languages running on the system. 11:17:15 AM