Hardcode
Making it happen
CPU quota per process ?
Dec 6th
I so wish an application to control the CPU usage per process – Linux has it I’m almost sure. For the Windows task scheduler this shouldn’t be much different from the priorities handling. As a side idea – CPU usage per user would be useful also.
N73 bug
Dec 5th
There’s an issue on N73 (or maybe on all S60 3rd edition smartphones?) in the J2ME implementation – the midlet crashes / exits if someone adds a command with a lengthy label set.
Nokia’s future ?
Dec 5th
Nokia
is doing great, and I am a big fan of them. However I disagree with their
direction – they should launch fewer phones but with more personality (exactly
what they were doing in 2001-2002). The bunch of products available now lacks
style and individuality.
Instead of enforcing a standard look on all phones (even across S40 and S60) I
would definitely appreciate having exquisite functions and themes. Ok, the
fashion models have unique themes but that’s it. The same is to be said for
hardware features – it would be interesting to have ‘exotic’ components, at
least in some of their phones (hard drive and optical zoom are fine but still
not cool enough).
As
for the form factors – there is still room for out of the ordinary ones. People were expecting a lot from both the fashion models and 8800 and were disappointed to some extent.
My kind of project ideas ?
Dec 4th
- Somewhat hard to develop so the majority of people can’t do it but easy enough so I can get it quickly working
- Not requiring maintenance and further changes
- Cool enough to generate hype 
- Painless implementation by leveraging existing mainstream technologies
Original Nokia Java applications
Nov 30th
I’ve found an archive with all Nokia games & applications to date, as extracted from the handsets.
Internet Explorer cannot display this feed
Nov 28th
Internet Explorer seems to perform a strict XML validation – the bad news is that MSXML does this and as a conclusion it’s not a good idea to use MSXML or XmlDocument from .NET to process feeds. I will update this post with a more usable XML parser for .NET.
ProxyCast
Nov 27th
Bluetooth marketing starts to appear in Romania also – these guys offer a system. I’m not very confident about the market here, however they seem to already have OgilvyOne as a first big client.
Office 2007 UI License
Nov 22nd
What’s the big issue about this ? The UI is already implemented and waiting for you to buy it and use it freely in your application.
"Dir" command-line wildcard for extensions
Nov 21st
Here’s a weird difference between Windows 2003 SP1 and Windows XP SP2: Suppose you have two files in the same folder, a.txt and b.txt_ , the effect of dir *.txt is as follows:
- Windows XP SP2:
a.txt
b.txt_ - Windows 2003 SP1:
a.txt
It’s scary how it performs on SP2 – it can lead to dangerous stuff when you are using DEL to erase files …
Remove rows from DataTable
Nov 17th
ADO.NET is so highly intuitive, guess from the following which is the correct method for erasing a row from the datatable / database:
- dataTable.Rows.RemoveAt(0)
- dataTable.Rows[0].Delete()
The first variant removes the row from the collection but does not mark it as “deleted” (to be deleted on the next update on the tableadapter), while the second one works fine.
Update: of course you also need tableAdapter.Update( dataTable) so the adapter actually deletes the marked rows.
