Write Once, Run Anywhere or just on your target device- July 16, 2005 News.com ran an interesting article yesterday http:news.com.comWrite+once%2C+run+anywhere+not+working+for+phones+-+page+22100-1037_3-5788766-2.htmltag=st.num. It looks at the promise of "Write Once, Run Anywhere" on the J2ME platform. My takeaway from it is that when you write a J2ME application for one device, there's typically incremental work moving to a new device. How does this compare with your experience coding for J2ME and what sort of apps are you building To...http://blogs.msdn.com/jamespr/archive/2005/07/15/439498.aspx Should I go MP3- July 16, 2005 After going through hoops to get my music from iTunes into my Media Center UI it got me thinking about music formats. When I started with my iPod, I chose M4A because it enabled me to save space on my iPod. iTunes now has a facility to transcode songs down to a smaller size when it syncs to save space. Media Player can also do that which is important for my Samsung YH-999 Portable Media Center...http://blogs.msdn.com/jamespr/archive/2005/07/15/439495.aspx Syncing Windows Media Player and iTunes- July 16, 2005 Syncing Windows Media Player and iTunes We've talked about me being an iPod owner and we talked about me building a Media Center PC - we did talk about that right Maybe not! Well that's the topic for another post but for now let's take a step forward. Initially having an iPod locked me into the M4A format. When I bought my iPod nearly 2 years ago I had a choice : a) Keep my format "open" and encode everything in MP3. Because I care about quality, 128 MP3 doesn't...http://blogs.msdn.com/jamespr/archive/2005/07/15/439491.aspx Ask Microsoft : What are your burning questions about Windows Mobile development- July 8, 2005 If you subscribe to Pocket PC Magazine (http:www.pocketpcmag.com) you'll know that they have an Ask Microsoft column. Hal, from Thaddeus the publisher, has asked me to answer questions for this month's column on developing for Windows Mobile. I'm looking for questions from out there in the developer community! The questions could be about which Microsoft mobile technology to use when, new stuff in Windows Mobile 5.0, why certain features exist or don't exist, why things...http://blogs.msdn.com/jamespr/archive/2005/07/07/436710.aspx Windows Mobile Developers and Longhorn- July 8, 2005 I started thinking about Windows Mobile developers in the context of Longhorn today. I'm assuming - and I don't know because it's a closely guarded secret even within Microsoft - that Longhorn will be released in the next couple of years. The first thing I was wondering is what tools people will be using to build applications between now and when Longhorn ships. So I want you to put on your time travel hats. Given the tools you use today, eMbedded Visual C++ 3.0 and 4.0,.http://blogs.msdn.com/jamespr/archive/2005/07/07/436707.aspx |