2003-11-09 15:30:31

It’s late, I know. I stayed up watching Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and then the documentary that followed it about the making of the Indiana Jones series. Then I decided to finish off the expression scanner for Superstring. I’ve tested it, and it seems to be working well. Now I need to code a parser for the expression language. Ideally all this should be small enough to fit on a mobile phone or some other equally resource poor device. It’ll be cool once I’ve got a prototype of my protocol running on my phone! I’ve bought a data cable that connects my new mobile phone to the computer so that I can copy files to and from the phone. There are some example Java applications that come with the Siemens Mobility Toolkit and M55 emulator. I can take a look at those for examples on how to turn an application into a Midlet (a Midlet is like an applet except for mobile devices). If I get sick of playing Wappo and Extreme Games (they are the games that are preinstalled on the M55) I can copy over some of the example software that came with the M55 emulator. I’ve already copied over some midi files to use as ring tones. :) Speaking of ring tones, I think a neat demo of Superstring will be to advertise ring tones and Java games, and to let users send queries from their phones to locate these resources from other users. It’d be better if my phone was equipped with something other than GPRS, because then I could demo the ants based protocol as it was truly intended: queries to other devices in close proximity. With GPRS I can demo the phone as a client in a much wider-area network. But as I mentioned in an earlier post, the clients and services utilise the same protocol regardless of the kind of network they’re in. So in fact, the demo will be just as useful over GRPS as over Bluetooth or IrDA. Excellent (said in an evil Mr Burns kind of way).