I attended the Symbian Summit Tokyo last week. The timing was good–the marketplace for cell phone operating systems has never been more interesting. Google announced its open source OS Android last November; then Nokia announced that it was acquiring the majority of the outstanding shares of Symbian last month and planned to open source the [...]

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In my new and continuing series on hair-pulling, teeth-gnashing Java error messages, I am proud to present:
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no j3dcore-ogl in java.library.path
Just for fun, I’ve been working through Pro Java 6 3D Game Development: Java 3D, JOGL, JInput and JOAL APIs . I have been trying to rework the example code and make it my own [...]

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After several months of using mostly Visual Studio, I have some time now to shift gears back into Java. The timing is good–the annual release of Eclipse and all its subprojects happened while I was out of town on vacation last month.
I’m working on a new computer, running Vista 64bit. I reaped the rewards of [...]

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You’re not really blogging unless you’re involved in some random chain-letter variant. This one seems to be not too lame.
Achoo!

Edit - wow, I need some QA. Copy/pasting the code into the WP’s Visual Editor *so* did not work. Fixed.

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