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May 24, 2004
fuck you very much the FCC

"Here's a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judge... It's a new song, it's dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars."—Eric Idle
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May 12, 2004
Quick uptake for Symbian Linux

That was quick. Is there some kind of unmet, pent up demand for Symbian Linux solutions? My Symbian / Linux HOWTO is now the #1 result in google if you type in symbian linux or symbian "OS X" . I’ve had 623 referrals from google so far this month, probably mostly for that. huh.
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May 11, 2004
me and yaacov

featured in this feature . believe it or not, progress is being made.
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May 9, 2004
HOWTO develop Symbian apps using Linux and OS X

I finished writing up my HOWTO on using Linux to develop for Symbian. Specifically, it covers Series 60 but the tools can be used for other variantions of Symbian as well.
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May 6, 2004
daypop top 40 for semacode

semacode made it to the Daypop Top 40 Links today. We’re number 18 right now. With an up arrow. And some green bars below. I have no idea what that means. But other people have blue and red bars and some gray ones. I think green is probably good.
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May 5, 2004
semacode coverage

I released semacode a few days ago. And it’s been pretty well received so far. Here’s a round up of the coverage.
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Apr 25, 2004
20000

My web counter from digits.com has just crossed 20000. Actual number, probably much higher, since digits seems to miss quite a few. While I’m at it, here are more details. I won’t bother with “hits” since it’s such a misleading number. But so far this month I’ve served about 400 pages and had about 100 visits … per day. Maybe as much as half of those are hits on my rss.xml file though. By a long shot my biggest referrer this month has been google. With 91 hits for the search string “d” ? What does that mean. Other search strings I got a few times are “expat os x” which makes sense, “iambic quadrameter” which makes less sense. “libxml mac os x” and “sdk2unix” seem reasonable.

Here’s one that’s interesting. Trivia, symbian is a british company. So, you know, those crazy brits (and canadians too) spell some words differently. So when I wrote up my solution to the symbian initialized data problem, I copy/pasted from the output and they use the spelling “initialised”. I got a few hits for “.app has initialised data” (I’m first in google for that) (I’m second for just “has initialised data” (with the quotes)).
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Apr 24, 2004
more tales from a symbian programmer

Programming for symbian may be a hassle, but it’s kind of cool to write apps on this device. The smartphone is really a completely new platform, with new possibilities never really achieved on any other device. I mean, if you were writing for a vertical market, you could conceive of doing something like this on a PDA before but the number of net-connected was never very high. Whereas there are maybe 10 million smartphones with cameras already sold, and the number should continue to skyrocket.
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Apr 24, 2004
determine symbian app UID

How to determine an app’s UID on Symbian: just download the application’s .sis file and open it in a hex editor. The first four words will be the Uid in reverse order.
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Apr 23, 2004
series 60 about box

How to make an about box in Symbian Series 60.
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