I worked at a very large company that essentially housed marketing information (names, addresses, even hardware setups home their home machines) for high-powered clients (black&decker, ATI, panasonic).
My job was to write perl scripts that reformatted incoming files so they could be loaded into our mainframe. Needless to say it was less than chanllenging, plus the end result of my work (along with everyone elses') was that people got more junk mail. I was going to quit, but low and behold I was laid-off!
Hello, severence package. Hello unemployment. It was like a 9 month paid-vacation!
In closing, I highly recommend this if you can finagle it. Then you can drink as much PBR you want, without your manager saying its counter productive.
I am a cellphone application developer, specializing in Qualcomm's BREW. It's true that getting you application onto an actual handset is quite an ordeal. You have to be authenticated, then send any handsets to Qualcomm, to become "test-enabled", that will allow you to cable-load applications to the phone.
But what about java enabled devices? I haven't actually done any developement in that area, but it would be wise to see if the same restrictions apply. You can probably find information from Sun, I believe most devices use J2ME (http://java.sun.com/j2me/). I know that most of Sprint's handsets are Java-enabled. Also, distributing your applications is MUCH easier for java handsets, as opposed to BREW's distrobution system (it's called a "walled-garden"), completely controlled by the carriers. Whereas with java you can distribute via WAP pushes, and links.
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I worked at a very large company that essentially housed marketing information (names, addresses, even hardware setups home their home machines) for high-powered clients (black&decker, ATI, panasonic).
My job was to write perl scripts that reformatted incoming files so they could be loaded into our mainframe. Needless to say it was less than chanllenging, plus the end result of my work (along with everyone elses') was that people got more junk mail. I was going to quit, but low and behold I was laid-off!
Hello, severence package. Hello unemployment. It was like a 9 month paid-vacation!
In closing, I highly recommend this if you can finagle it. Then you can drink as much PBR you want, without your manager saying its counter productive.
I am a cellphone application developer, specializing in Qualcomm's BREW. It's true that getting you application onto an actual handset is quite an ordeal. You have to be authenticated, then send any handsets to Qualcomm, to become "test-enabled", that will allow you to cable-load applications to the phone.
But what about java enabled devices? I haven't actually done any developement in that area, but it would be wise to see if the same restrictions apply. You can probably find information from Sun, I believe most devices use J2ME (http://java.sun.com/j2me/). I know that most of Sprint's handsets are Java-enabled. Also, distributing your applications is MUCH easier for java handsets, as opposed to BREW's distrobution system (it's called a "walled-garden"), completely controlled by the carriers. Whereas with java you can distribute via WAP pushes, and links.