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My Location Redux

I have added a new dimension to my Maps/App Engine/ClientLocation mashup. I asked Steve to build a simple Java ME application that allows me to find my location information (using JSR 179) and post it to the site along with a basic description. I am looking forward to wandering around London tagging my favourite locations.

If you aren't a tinkerer like myself I would recommend the excellent Spotjots (who licensed our GUI library to build their Java ME version).




Sony Ericsson Developer World Blogs

Sony Ericsson Developer World has introduced employee blogs. Hopefully these will be an interesting insight into Java on Sony Ericsson devices.

Sony Ericsson Developer World Blogs




Provisioning Stats for August 2008

Top 10 phone manufacturers for last month across all clients/applications on our provisioning platform. The fact that Apple is at number 2 says a great deal about which device users are most likely to download mobile applications. Sun needs to do some serious thinking about how they want to position Java ME because at the moment it seems the idea of an ubiquitous/standardised mobile runtime is dead in the water.

Nokia
Apple
Sony Ericsson
BlackBerry
HTC
Samsung
Motorola
LG
Palm
Siemens




My Location

I have been experimenting with Google's new ClientLocation API. Doing a location look up using an IP address is old hat but this is usually done server side. The ClientLocation API is a client side JavaScript so it offers something new and unique to the location services mix.

The demo application below is based on an example by Dion Almaer. The little man icon is where the ClientLocation API reports the source of your IP address and, for those of you in London, the house icon just above Regent's Park is the Paxmodept office. The demo application is running on the Google App Engine.

My Location

PS - this works great on Nokia internet tablets where Google Maps has always been a pain to use.




More Robotics Videos

BBC Video - Robo-skeleton lets paralysed walk

Alternate link for above embedded YouTube Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkvpEfAPXn4




Robothrower

Brilliant!




Create QR Code

I just created a QR code generator on Google App Engine using the Google Chart API. Enjoy!

http://createqrcode.appspot.com/




Google Chart API and QR Codes

paxmodept.com

The above image was generated by the Google Chart API with the following URL:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=200x200&chl=paxmodept.com&chld=H|0

Documentation

Google also have a Java QR code reader library called ZXing.

Create QR Code