Netbean J2ME

Currently working on my List project in Netbean 4.1. This is awsome. I could finish about 70% of use cases without writing a single line of code. This so VB like experience. You just drag and drop some screens and add commands to those screens. Link those screens together. And a add some behaviour to those commands. No code required. The problem is the code generated is not much of OO in nature. Its like procedural code. May be I need to relooked at the code once I finish the program.

New Project

I am thinking about this new idea for a project. I am not sure I should use J2ME or Python for this. But currently python looks better and faster option for this. The idea is this, we have these smart phones. These smart phones have more computing power than early PCs and these small PCs are just running into loop and doing nothing. Imagine whatwe can achieve if we can get these processors to do something useful. I am thinking of developing a cron utility in python which will look into crontab file and do the things at specific time. Once I get this utility working then I can come up with many small command line utilities to be executed by this cron server to do usefull things. Following things come to mind for these utilities

• Send a reminder sms to some one (need a small command sms tool which will read the file and send a sms to that person.
• Upload all the photos from a directory to the server (Flicker)
• Download some of the podcast
• sync the contacts

Later I can come up with GUI utility to create the crontab file.

Apche Mysql and PSP

After getting working the PHP and MySQL working, I worked on to get mod_python to work just to see the difference. After reading through the documentation. It was pretty simple installation And I could get the PSP working in about 30 minutes. The code for both was about the same size.