My current project

I haven’t updated this blog in a while, and that’s a mistake really, because I want to keep it occupied, but I haven’t been able to figure out what to write in my tutorial, so it will be a while away still. I want it to be useful for people who decide to read it, so it will definitely also contain various screenshots and such.

That being said, however, I have been working quite a lot on some J2ME recently, more specifically a project for a client on the Rent-A-Coder site. It is proving to be quite the interesting project indeed, even though the workload is a lot bigger than originally assessed, but luckily that just means that I’ll get paid more to do it. Not proportional to the actual increase in workload, but that’s okay.

The project is forcing me to seriously consider things like best practices for J2ME applications, and how to make things work properly for even the older J2ME-phones, the so-called MIDP1 phones. Coding around problems like the lack of support for floating-point numbers and math is quite a challenge, but one I quite enjoy.

There’s a lot of other things I’ve been learning about here, such as optimization techniques for J2ME, and other such useful information, so what this basically means is, that I’m going to be rewriting the BSCurrency application to support MIDP1, and to be faster and lighter on the system.. Not to mention easier to maintain because I’ve come to realize that Netbeans’ “Visual MIDlets” are best for those trying to learn how to program for J2ME, and that making the switch over to just “MIDlets”, giving you full control of the process, is a good choice for many.

One more thing.. I finally figured out how to easily compile for, and manage the code for multiple versions of the platform, thus using one bit of code for devices with MIDP2, and another for those that only has MIDP1.

Anyway, this is all I have to write for now. I will update again soon with something more interesting. I promise.