PushRegistry SMS Listener

I have attached a small code snippet which implements an SMS listener. For more details on PushRegistry click here. This will invoke notifyIncomingMessage() of the MessageListener. This code will not create a permanent entry in the registry, but will listen to the specified port as long as the application is alive.
package subin.rnd.mobile.game;
import javax.microedition.io.Connector;
import javax.wireless.messaging.MessageConnection;
import javax.wireless.messaging.MessageListener;
import javax.wireless.messaging.TextMessage;
public [...]

Zlango

Zlango has created a new, inspiring icon based language which transforms web and mobile messaging into an expressive, juicy, colorful icon-based experience.
Zlango is a revolutionary, simple and practical language. It’s made up of over 200 icons divided into intuitive and memorable categories. Words, concepts or feelings can be expressed by the different icons.
Users love Zlango. [...]

Microsoft & Open source

Guys, this is not a joke. Microsoft website says:
“Microsoft is focused on helping customers and partners succeed in a heterogeneous technology world. This starts with participating and contributing to a broad range of choices for developing and deploying software, including open source approaches and applications. From thousands of lines of code and scripts on MSDN [...]

An Introduction to JavaFX Script - http://java.sun.com/

The JavaFX Script programming language (hereinafter referred to as JavaFX) is a declarative, statically typed scripting language from Sun Microsystems, Inc. As mentioned on the Open JavaFX (OpenJFX) web site, JavaFX technology has a wealth of features, including the ability to make direct calls to Java technology APIs. Because JavaFX Script is statically typed, it [...]

Creating Pie Charts using JFreeChart with custom colors

I have attached a sample code snippet for creating a Pie Chart using JFreeChart with custom colors. There is a PieReneder (a static inner class) which can be used to achieve the same. The PieRenderer takes an array of java.awt.Color in its constructor.
package subin.rnd.chart;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.List;
import org.jfree.chart.ChartFactory;
import org.jfree.chart.ChartUtilities;
import org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart;
import org.jfree.chart.plot.PiePlot;
import org.jfree.data.general.DefaultPieDataset;
public class PieChartWithCustomColours
{
    public [...]