Once more another major IntelliJ IDEA release. Gave a test drive. Uninstalled it today. Horribly slow. Supposedly Ubuntu bugs. Bollox. Code reformatter broken.
I so wish for having back 4.5 with a simple word completion and syntax highlighting feature for Ruby. What more do you need? Sigh. :)
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Filed by The.French.DJ at 12:43 am under Java
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it’s like the matrix reloaded.. something went wrong.. when the antenna guys added the new v2 preprocessor.. trying to move closer to j2me polish? integrating the same bad decisions.. amazing how things go sometimes..
i’ve been working with an older antenna version for quite some time now. i don’t see a reason to upgrade. or let me put it another way: i see the need to replace antenna with something else. or new. or maybe add a v3 preprocessor to it.. :)
i’m not saying antenna or j2me polish are bad tools. looks like they are good if you want tools that integrate tightly with your IDE. but i want something else. clean preprocessing directives. clean API. made for command line and/or ant use.
in my rage :) i totally forgot to mention a few things. for example this: in my world i’d like a preprocessor to understand
#if true
without me having to define anything. simple things like that.. i also simply don’t like defines that look like
#ifdef something:defined or #if something:defined
instead i would argue that
#ifdef something or #if something
should suffice. and i would also argue that it is a good practice to keep names of defines all uppercase. and reserve lowercase to other things. like for example built-in values or variables..
as you can see this is a lot about me not liking something. nothing else.. i guess..
well, my two cents only..
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 12:57 pm under Development, J2ME, Rant
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I’ve been quite busy with work lately. So I did not manage to update my website or this blog in quite some time. But this is definitely worth a post:
J2ME Development - The way it should be
Take a look at the Opposite Lock Development Video. They show you how to write J2ME games the right way. You don’t need a thousand different jar files to target a thousand different phones. There is enough common ground within the J2ME platform. And look closely how cool things are as long as you target J2SE, too. Not only for the editor(s). But for the game, too.
I always hated working primarily with the WTK emulator or going to the real phones too early. You fix device specific bugs and issues with them. But you do everything else on the platform that is most efficient for it. And that surely isn’t the WTK emulator or a real phone.
I’m trying to do the same with my RunME emulation layer and the IntensiBuild system. My framework is not as advanced as what the Numfum developers show in their video, but it gets the job done, too. For example I have JamJam (formerly known as BlockShock or IntensiTris.. :) running on most MIDP2 devices and on the desktop (via Java WebStart). There are only minor differences between the versions. (And of course I can build specific versions to allow for different soft key codes and little glitches in the oh so perfect J2ME world. But the same JAR will run on all phones.)
For Galaxina - my next game - I had to create an editor for the enemy flight paths and the level design. There I, too, embedded the game into the editor. It makes total sense. Of course by far not as cool as the Crysis Sandbox.. :)
I really hope I find the time to finally release RunME and IntensiBuild to the Open Source world. So far work has kept me from doing it.
Slideshow Engine
One of my older projects is a generic slide-show system. I’m updating this right now as part of one of my commercial projects. But I’m thinking about open sourcing at least the old version. If you should have a commercial interest in a generic slide-show system for J2ME, please contact my business partners www.psychocell.com.
Filed by The.French.DJ at 1:10 am under Development, J2ME, Mobile
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After reading some (in theory :) useful comments on Symbian development here, I thought adding my own two cents could make sense. Here we go:
DO Use Python S60 to write applications.
DON’T Use the Symbian C++ SDK for anything.
Oh how much anger do I feel when looking back to my Symbian C++ programming days.. :) The most horrible SDK I’ve ever had to work with.. Of course, in the last four or five years the SDK has improved quite a lot. Especially the Eclipse-based Carbide IDE seems to provide a rather good development experience.
Anyway, I’m happy that I was able to move on to Python S60 and J2ME development.
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 2:30 pm under Development, Mobile, Rant
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Finally some intelligent words on software piracy: Ignore Software Pirates Check out the /. comments, too.
I personally think that copy protection and fighting piracy implies you have a shoddy product and you’re trying to get as much money out of it as you can. Ok. Oversimplifying a bit.
Now take another useless comment like this from the Tetris father.
Of course this is a high level system discussion. But putting wealth and prosperity over freedom (of any kind - and for god’s sake, FOSS is about freedom :) is plain and simple stupid.
Anyway.. the world we live in.. funny..
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 1:40 pm under Development, Rant, World
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I’ve updated www.intensicode.net with the latest public release version of BlockShock. Give it a try and let me know what you think. The game will be released commercially with a different configuration and J2ME-only later this year.
There’s also a new - still very early - tech demo of Galaxina online now. It is completely unoptimized and does a lot of unnecessary path/distance calculations. But it should run at decent 30 fps on modern devices (N73 or K800 for example). The WebStart version is a bit more sluggish. Hey, it’s just an early demo!
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Filed by The.French.DJ at 4:50 pm under Games, J2ME, Mobile
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Found this one on The.Pirate.Bay: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Right now it’s still on Google Video. You can find some more videos there from the same user. Fucked up world.
Sometimes it feels really good to be part of this intelligent and highly educated race.. :/
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 7:08 pm under Rant, World
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Two amazing things about this /. article: Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge
First: I nearly lost hope in face of all this stupid surveillance, IP and enforcing copyright crap going on world-wide. Let’s hope Sweden will save our freedom! It looks like Rick Falkvinge knows what he is doing. Let’s hope there are some more wise men around who stand up against the big companies. Being in Germany, it’s weird to know that everything I’m doing right now in the Internet, every web site I read, every link i click, every post I write, is logged by my ISP and available to “authorities”. Good job, Germany! Yes, you got me. I’m an evil terrorist trying to copy Hollywood movies and sell them for big money. Woohoo.. :)
Second: Read through the /. comments. There are really people who don’t get it. How brain dead must one be to think that all that is going on in the last few years with software patents, DRM, enforcing copyrights will help us? It’s like starting a war after a terrorist attack. Doh..
Make fucking love - not war.
Give - don’t take.
:)
Amen,
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 11:05 am under Rant, World
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If you haven’t read Zed’s rant, yet, do so now: Rails Is A Ghetto
Here are my two cents..
I never got into RoR myself. Looked at it. Saw some weird stuff. Dropped it. When I had to write some “web services” I wrote my own stuff. No Mongrel at that time. Later, when Mongrel was around, I had to work with it. And, well, it was ok. But I saw things I didn’t like. But I guess if you could see my code, you’d puke.. :) So what the heck..
But what about Zed.. He’s funny.. The rant is funny.. But I did not really get the ’smart’ part. About smart people and everything.. Wouldn’t someone ’smart’ see it coming all along? Now he doesn’t exactly say he’s smart (or that he’s not).. But I’m saying: It’s a funny rant. But in a way it’s also redundant. Look at the Rails community.. That’s enough.. :)
I currently enjoy writing Java code for the J2ME platform. How sick is that? Pushing my second (commercial) mobile project out the door. Woohoo. 2008 - The Java Year. LOL. Looking forward to Android already..
Whatever.. Happy New Year, I guess..
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 11:08 pm under Development, Rant
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in case you haven’t seen it: Zeitgeist - The Movie
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Filed by The.French.DJ at 8:20 pm under World
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