Nov 24, 2008
I've moved to Tumblr, new blog is at jonathanfisher.tumblr.com and the jonathanhfisher domain now redirects there.
My current project has come to the end of its development cycle so I'm now on the lookout for a new permanent position in the Manchester area, if you need a mobile developer with plenty of experience of J2ME, BlackBerry (and now Android) please get in touch. I've lots of web and design ...
Nov 7, 2008
Got myself a T-Mobile G1 last week and finally found time to sit down and try and code something for Android last night, on-device debugging is really really fast; tweak your code in Eclipse and you'll be playing with it on the tethered device in a few seconds - bliss, if only BlackBerry was this quick. If you don't have a physical device the simulator uses about the ...
Oct 27, 2008
Been back a few days and finally seem to be over the terrible jetlag, I've always dismissed it when others have complained about it but it really did knock me for six. The conference itself was brilliant and it was good to put some faces to names in the developer community (I think I heard mentioned there were over 6 or 7 hundred developers present - why aren't ...
Oct 17, 2008
Anyone know of an existing solution? I can log into the wordpress dashboard via the BlackBerry web browser but it's kinda painful.
Next question: Anyone interested in collaborating to develop a decent solution?
Oct 14, 2008
I don't know if you've seen the emulator for the new Storm but it looks like the skin was made in Microsoft Paint by a 3 year old. Have a little pride in your work guys, it's going to bug me every time I run the emu:
Here's a retouched version, feel free to use it in future releases:
Unfortunately it seems the image is held inside fledge.dat (res/plastics/storm.jpg) so ...
Oct 13, 2008
After moaning about the lack of visibility in a previous post the
Oct 10, 2008
Knowing how much I love Stars of the Lid my mate Sirconical sent me this:
can't find anymore details other than it's due in 2010.
Oct 8, 2008
Managed to get the last unit in Manchester a couple of weeks ago, supplies might be better now. I've always read a lot, in bed when I wake up and before I sleep, on the bus, on the loo, instead of watching crappy TV and I was unsure if the Sony Reader could ever be as transparent as a paper book - would you forget you were ...
Sep 23, 2008
Just spent the weekend in Dublin visiting an old friend with 3 other school mates - one of whom I've known for 27 years! Brilliant weekend, pictures for anyone who might know us from Parrswood High/Beaver Road School days are on my flickr account
Sep 17, 2008
... (version 2.3.1 on BlackBerry Bold) has a beautiful isometric 3D view for supported areas:
and Street-View, again for regions Google have digitised: