Monday, July 20, 2009

mediclik won't work on my mac !!!!!!!

if the last week was crazy, this week including the weekend was crazier. i had been testing mediclik, our product, on windows and then suddenly i had this bright idea. Why not bring it to my mac? and so started the whirlwind of installing one application after another. install mysql? check. install tomcat? check. install mysql connector? check. use netbeans to create a war? check. deploy war using tomcat? check. login to application? fail.....
change track. use netbeans to create a war using existing resources. deployed it successfully. login failed again.
check if the db connection is ok. there are no logs so no idea. verified that every service is running properly.
use netbeans to create a new war but moved the folders inside WEB-INF. war created and deployed successfully. this time at least login screen opened properly. wrong login gave error. correct login gave nothing. the screen didn't change.
checked all the classes. realized that some files are not being compiled. error is that it can't recognize json objects. did an internet search for the same. found a good article. did things accordingly. compile failed again.
and so on and so forth. i will find something blocking, check it out on the net, try things and find that things are still not working. gooodddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd!!!!!!!!!!
i must admit that the feeling of dropping everything was sometimes overwhelming, but i have persisted nonetheless.
Apart from this never ending cycle of changes to make mediclik work on my mac, I did find time to chat with Abhishek about starting part time on mobile application development which if successful could lead to a new company and about job scenes in Bangalore. things are bad these days even in the silicon valley of India.
Did read some articles on game development using J2ME but these are simple games and simpler articles. not much to talk about, not much to learn. I am looking for a really good book on J2ME game development.
In trying to find some good games, I was given some SIS files by my bro. Now SIS is a symbian file which can run only on those cellphones which are symbian compliant. Motorola is not. Motorola quit Symbian group as it felt that Symbian group is being hijacked by Nokia. As of now there is no tool which can make SIS file run on Motorola phones. Looks like this is another agenda item on my plate. I am going to read about Symbian now.

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