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DBTree Recursive Tree Source Code

A while back I mentioned I would "componentize" my recursive tree code which extends the default MX 2004 tree. Well I've received quite a few emails lately about releasing the source. Since I haven't had time to get it into component format I'm going to release the code. I promise to get around to "componentizing" it, but work is keeping me super busy right now. If you haven't seen the recursive functionality then you can check it out here. Click here to download the source and enjoy!

Traffic on Your Mobile Device with MoTraffic

I've recently been working on a mobile application called daylite. My vision for the program is to provide users with all the daily information they need directly on their device. So I've had this idea over the past few months about providing traffic information on the device. I started to do some research and decided I would integrate traffic cam images into daylite. This would allow users to view publicly available traffic cam images on their phone. I believe this would be extremely useful for those who despise traffic like I do.

To make a long story short, Flash Lite doesn't support directly loading images without wrapping them into an .swf file. So to do this on the fly I would need to implement something like PHP Ming. I'm still not 100% certain this will work so I'll be investigating this option in the coming weeks.

With this roadblock in place I decided to get my J2ME groove on again. I already had a remote proxy that grabs images from the on-line traffic cams and sizes them down to a usable size for Symbian Series 60 devices (ie Nokia 6620). Now all I needed to do was code the phone client (I'm calling it MoTraffic). Even though this is VERY beta I'm posting a couple of screens here. This currently only supports three traffic cams in the Dallas area.

  

I'd ultimately like to integrate this with every traffic cam in Texas, the US, and then take over the world! But seriously, I've just been extremely frustrated with Dallas traffic and this is my way to beat the system. I'm hoping to get this integrated into daylite in the near future, but in the meantime I'm going to work to make it available to sll J2ME compatible devices.

If you have requests for MoTraffic to support your phone as well as your city, please shoot me an email or post a comment here. If you have links to on-line traffic cams it would be extremely helpful so I can see what it will take to integrate with them. Stay tuned!

daylite v0.2 Released

I had some free time this weekend to put the finishing touches on daylite v0.2. I had planned to have flight times available in this release, but ran into some technicalities. Therefore I decided to release a weather upgrade instead. In daylite v0.2 you now have the ability to get a 4 day weather forecast.

I personally have found this a very useful feature and I hope you do as well. Many more functionality will be coming in future versions so please stay tuned. Also, if you have any suggestions or comments then don't hesitate to contact me!

daylite v0.2 Status Update

I've received a few emails asking when the next version of daylite will be released. If you're not familiar with the product it's an informational application that runs on Symbian Series 60 devices within the Flash Lite Player. daylite gives you access to local weather and much more planned in the near future. daylite will be a staple that gives users access to local weather, flight times, movie times, stocks, news, and much more. I'm working on getting a 4 day weather forecast implemented as daylite currently only supports weather for the current day.

Beta Version 0.2 should be available near the end of this week. If you haven't downloaded a copy, feel free to grab it from Macromedia's Exchange or you can get it here.