While going thru my mail this morning, I came across a tutorial for a crash course on creating mobile Java games. The tutorial is clear and simple and discusses in a step by step manner on how to create mobile Java games. The author, Anders, actually does it by going thru an example of a mobile game that he created.

If you’re one of those guys who is using the latest and greatest of the NetBeans IDE for your development work, you might want to update your NetBeans IDE.

NetBeans has announced the winners of its NetBeans 6.1 blogging contest which is about sharing their experiences with the new NetBeans v6.1 integrated development environment.

The next major release of the Eclipse platform, code named e4 is now available. e4, which is supported on all known hardware and operating systems, redefines web-based applications and application development. It provides the ultimate in flexibility, extensibility and customization for embedded, mobile, desktop, server and cloud development.

While I was Googling to read about what other people have say about Android, I came across the blog of Simon Moris and his article about Android. He provides a very clear and simple explanation what Android is and goes on to ask “Is Android ‘Java’?”

Well this time, Developer Days of Java guys in the Philippines. Sun Microsystems promises the event to be bigger and better. The Sun Developer Days will be held on November 13, 2007 (7:45am to 5:15pm).

It’s the turn of the Irish Java Users Group to hold it’s own Java conference. They’re currently looking for speakers for the conference to talk about Java technologies.

It looks like it’s the time of the year for Java Developer’s Day around the world. Guys at Poland just finished their developer’s day. The conference lasted for two days.

Google’s gmail app is a java midlet application you can install on your mobile phone to allow you to access your gmail account. The Gmail java application has just been upgraded to version 1.5.

There has been news lately about “Sun’s decision to kill Java ME” and use Java SE instead as a replacement technology. I believe that these people have got it all wrong! I also believe in Mr. James Gosling’s explanation in his blog.