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Deploying Blackberry Applications from a website - source code improvement available for download

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So, you've built your web icon or application (perhaps in the 'Eclipse' development environment) and you have tested it thoroughly on your virtual platform and phone. The next step is perhaps allowing people to load your work directly onto their phone from your web site.

Ive just done this by using the following reference document on the Blackberry website:

Eclipse IDE - Virtual Machine start problem, solved on second attempt

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I installed the recent (1.6) version of the Java development kit to use in the Eclipse IDE.

All was going well with the project until I opened the Eclipse environment yesterday and suddenly for no apparent reason it wouldn't start! An error dialog was given stating:

"Failed to create the Java virtual machine."

"Bookmark All Tabs" menu item missing in Firefox - solved

A very simple Firefox browser problem which had me stumped for quite a while! Turns out this has been around since Firefox 4 was released way back in March 2011.

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I often want to check all the pages in a website for visual glitches on different platforms. I'll sometimes want to check for display problems (on web pages across an entire website) which have crept in due changes in DOM handling on new browser releases.

Facebook.com and 'Flirt'. Whats Happening here then?

Facebook and the embedded link to 'Flirt'. Is something fishy going on?

Just wondering if anyone else has seen this 'glitch' (I suspect more than a glitch though) with Facebook?

I'm pretty new on the 'book' so I just wanted to see if anyone was looking up my featured website.

All of a sudden I'm presented with 'Flirt' which wants to share my details with all and sundry. Fair enough I thought, at least they're asking.
But I decide I dont want to allow them permission to share my details and stuff so I click the button "Don't allow".

Happy New Year reader

England from 8,000 feet - January 2010

Hi reader and Happy New Year to you. Lets hope 2010 is as good as it can be.

at the moment its a bit chilly. Did you see the twitter application which monitors U.K. snow.? If not you may be interested in taking a look here...http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/

Basically, it's a snow map of the U.K. using Google Maps

Not much good if you're reading this in summer I know :-)

Bye for now,
Rob.

Update to Drupal 6.

Just to let you know reader that I just upgraded to Drupal 6 and am still configuring the menus and content for full access. Thanks.

UK search engine statistics 2008

Someone contacted a client of mine (via junk mail as it turns out) claiming that their website was not registered in "most of the leading search engines and directories", and offering to submit the site for a (shall we say) hefty fee in order to reap 'amazing business potential'. Well once this client got in touch with me I became very interested how this could be! I thought to myself "what proportion of these 'other' engines would make up the rest of the search engines in use in the U.K. given that I'd already submitted the site to Google, MSN, Yahoo and Hotbot.

Google release Chrome 2.0. - A Second Look

Google has now released version 2.0 of the Chrome web browser, with some new features and improved support for JavaScript.
'Google' have been working towards adding the top requested features and making 'Chrome' faster, over the past eight months or so since it's launch.

'Drupal CMS' file system - allowing upload of additional file types.

If you're a 'Drupal' Content Management System Administrator then this may be of some use to you. So you need to allow upload of a different file type to those specified in the Drupal default configuration? In which case (if you're having problems) you may well have already looked at this posting - Drupal.org/node/146016

Embedding Your Flash File in a XHTML Page.

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Embedding Your Flash File in a XHTML Page.

I spent many happy (I think not) hours looking for a way to embed my movie into an xhtml page. You can check the result here http://www.tileandtubs.com if you would please, or just take my word for it.

If you really must join me in having flash embedded content in your web developments (frowned upon in many circles I know, and sometimes for good reason) look no further than the method that follows....

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