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PangoMedia Articles
These are articles written by PangoMedia employees. Notice how they are better than any of the other articles here.
Software Professionals of Alaska: First Meeting!
PangoMedia will be hosting the first ever SPA meeting here on Tuesday, June 12 at 5:30pm. The agenda will be short and simple. We're going to discuss the mission and structure of the organization and line up some goals for the upcoming quarter. This is a brand new organization and to-date has been envisioned only in the coffee-addled minds of myself and Jeremiah Dunham (a la WAI fame). We...
xhtml: what, why, how?
xhtml (eXtensible hypertext markup language) is the big buzzword in the web standards community [link], but what is it exactly, how does it help us, and how much should we implement it in our projects?
xhtml: What?
First of all, xhtml is very similar to html, but despite the opinions of W3Schools [Resistance is futile. You will be Standardized.
Web standards have been on the way for a while but they have always seemed slightly out of reach. The threat of Microsoft refusing to comply with the W3C XHTML standards has kept a lot of designers and developers from developing validated, compliant code for the web. There were intellectual battles over the need for compliance though many pressed forward with...
Mobile Device Software
Mobile/Handheld Application Development is an exciting field with enormous applicability in Alaska. PangoMedia is a leader in the development of handheld applications in Alaska. The following are articles drawn from all over the web about this exciting technology.
The Windows Mobile RSS feed has moved
The Windows Mobile RSS feed has been divided into three separate feeds for different Mobile-related technical topics. Please visit the Windows Mobile Developer Center home page to subscribe to the new feeds for Applications for Smart Devices, Mobile Games, or Mobile Web topics.
Developing Stylus-Free Windows Mobile Professional Applications
Designing your application to be easily used without a stylus can often reduce the complexity of interacting with your application and make the user more efficient overall. Similarly, designing your application so that users can interact with the application without a stylus dramatically increases the number of devices that can support your application. This article demonstrates how you can develop applications to reap the benefits of stylus-free design.
Dynamic Graphic Text Resizing
This is the latest article from the Windows Mobile Developer Center "Adapt Your App" series. One of the many challenges Windows Mobile developers face is adapting their application user interface to the many available Windows Mobile device screen sizes. This article provides a simple class that automatically adjusts the size of displayed text so that it makes the best use of available screen space.
Webcast: Windows Communications Foundation and Mobile Devices
In this webcast, we discuss the .NET Compact Framework v3.5 Windows Communications Foundation (WCF) implementation with a specific focus on store-and-forward messaging, an asynchronous messaging architecture that enables mobile devices to communicate with one another without requiring both devices to be online simultaneously. See this webcast live on 12-Dec-2007 at 11:00 AM PST (1900 UTC) or On-Demand starting 13-Dec-2007.
How to Intercept Incoming Short Message System (SMS) Messages
Short Message System (SMS) messaging provides a convenient way to communicate between applications running on separate devices; the MessageInterceptor class allows you to easily incorporate SMS message handling in your application. This paper provides a description of the MessageInterceptor class' capabilities and includes samples of the class' most common uses.
Java
PangoMedia provides cross platform, enterprise class solutions using Java. The following articles come from the sources we use to keep up with this important technology.
How Portable Is LWUIT?
Read more of Shai's weblogs to get more information on using LWUIT.
Nice to meet you!
JavaOne 2008 is almost over. It was another fun and content-filled event - even if it lacked the big announcements this year. I'll be blogging about some details and interesting things I saw over the next couple of days. One...
Java Mobility Podcast 45: Live from JavaOne 2008
Daniel Steinberg takes his microphone and tours the JavaOne 2008 Pavilion giving listeners an opportunity to experience the booths in the Mobility Village at JavaOne 2008.
The Lightweight U I Toolkit
A Swing-like toolkit for mobile devices that you can have today.
LWUIT released at JavaOne
The Lightweight UI Toolkit was officially announced to the developer community during yesterday's JavaOne mobility keynote by Jeet Kaul (video and audio archive). An early access binary release of the LWUIT library is available immediately and the full source code...
.NET Development
.NET development is the technology of choice for many PangoMedia clients. The following articles provide recent news and technical reading on the .NET Framework and related technologies such as C#, VB .NET, and ASP .NET.
Using StAX to Clone an XML Document
To clone an XML document at runtime, use the StAX XMLEventReader and XMLEventWriter classes.
Tracking Events Using a Semi-Structured Repository
Tracking the activities of a system and its users is too often not considered until the application is already deployed. Learn how to demonstrate an (almost) no hassle persistent bean pool that you can use to track the activities of an already developed system for later review.
Start Your Engines: Mobile Application Development
A fifth of the world's population will soon have a mobile device and access to the Internet. With that many potential users, is an explosion of mobile applications inevitable? If so, what technologies will lead the way in their development?
The Mobile Platform Cheat Sheet
With the fragmented mobile development landscape forcing developers to make a number of crucial choices, get a high-level comparison of the different platforms and recommendations for what purposes they fit.
Mobilize Your Java Applications with Java ME Technologies
Read this beginner's guide to extending an enterprise application to mobile devices with the Java ME technologies.
Database Development
The relational database is the foundation of modern application development. PangoMedia provides expert services on multiple database platforms including, Oracle, MS SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. The following are articles discussing the current state of this bedrock tool.
FindBugs Session: Notes
Sitting in the FindBugs session, it's pretty interesting. The last time I interacted with static analysis it was a product from Parasoft (?) and it wasn't that compelling. FindBugs looks interesting, simple, and is integrated with Hudson. Everyone seems to...
Neil Young at JavaOne
Participated in a Q+A session after yesterday's keynote. Sat down with Neil Young, Larry Johnson, some Sun executives, and a small group of reporters including Tim O'Reilly. Young and Johnson struck me as animated and excited about both the archive...
JavaOne Impressions from Tuesday
My entries are a day behind. I'm not a reporter, I'm a blogger, and I think it is more important to spend time talking to people than it is to work to some deadline in the press room. There's a...
Neil Young & the cool stuff
Last year JavaOne got the UN guy and was trying to eradicate poverty; this year they got Neil Young and were showing off the cool stuff. CNET blogger Dan Farber has a good write-up and the video that tells you...
Java One Day 0
So, the big kickoff for JavaOne. I guess there was news. Solaris on EC2, which is fine. More JavaFX demos. Expected that. Other than that, what? So one thing that really struck me: Project Hydrazine. Can someone tell me what...