Monthly Archives: August 2008

MWconn an alternative to the Vodafone Mobile Connect

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Dear Vodafone Huawei E220 users!!!!

I am more than happy to announce that out there exist a nice tool which can totally replace the Vodafone Mobie Connect or Vodafone Mobile Connect Lite.

Since I think 5 months, having no other solution for internet connection, I have subscribed to a Vodafone 3G broadband internet service. This comes with a nice little USB modem (Huawei E220).

Being acquired from Vodafone directly, the modem comes with a “nice” on-board software called Vodafone Mobile Connect Lite which starts up automatically(in ~1 minute or so) after you plug in the modem into an USB slot of your computer.

All nice and easy…but… after few days of usage… the internet connection started to break. (I think mostly because of the slightly bad 3G signal). Since this behavior became kind of very frequent we switched to the VMC Lite’s big brother (literally big) Vodafone Mobile Connect. Now that is a heavyweight peace of software… Actually I was extremely surprised that first I had to upgrade my wife’s Laptop to Win XP SP2 to be able to run the installer, after that it installed several MB of stuff to my computer including i think .Net runtime and stuff… but I still cannot realize WHY??

The only thing I wanted was a simple lightweight connection software… Is this too much to ask???

It was a small nightmare to start up the connection software… it took somewhat ~1minute to initialize (I have to say that we both have quite good machines, about 1 year old.)….man…that can be frustrating…

Yesterday I had enough and started to look around some alternatives for the VMC and VMC Lite. During the search I have fond some interesting links which you might find useful, like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei_E220

http://www.mobilebroadbandrocks.com/category/hardware/huawei-e220

and finally I found-it… a nice, simple and FREE software that rules them all….MWconn (http://www.mwconn.com/), written by guys who have been tired of VMC like software and decided to make something which is less bling, and is more useful… installed and configured in 5 minutes, my internet was up and running in notime… there is nothing else to say, but congrats….and thanks.

I have also used the following utilities to make VMC shut:

Switch Port

This tool will disable the on-board VMC Lite auto installer.  This is useful if you don’t want to use the embedded software on your machine.

Switch Modem

This package contains the drivers to allow you to use the device if you’re not using the standard connection manager.  You’ll need to plug in the device when you run this utility.

from http://www.mobilebroadbandrocks.com/huawei-modem-utilities.

So my fellow Huawei E220 users don’t waste your time, download the MWconn and let your modem work, because this is why you have acquired it…isn’t it? ;-)

Happy browsing…

N

Robust Java benchmarking articles

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I have found a really interesting 2 parts article written by Brent Boyer (head of Elliptic Group, Inc., a software development company in New York, N.Y)  about Extreme Java Benchmarking.

He nicely presents the problems that a programmer can face during code benchmarking, and shows some nice tricks to increase the accuracy of the written benchmarks.

I consider that the articles are a “must read” for those which are concerned about how the code written by them performs.

Resources:

Robust Java benchmarking, Part 1: Issues

Robust Java benchmarking, Part 2: Statistics and solutions

Happy coding

N

A new RCP for Java: Spring RCP

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I have used the Spring MVC framework since a while and I have to say that I have a very positive experience with it. It is an easy and powerful component based framework architecture.

Today when I opened my Thunderbird I saw an interesting post in the RSS feeds from JavaLobby about Spring RCP. For a moment I was a bit confused because I could not recall me reading about an RCP framework based on Spring…but I think my memory is not as sharp as used to be… (or maybe it newer was, who knows).

The article I found, agregates some links to other older articles about uing the Spring RCP, starting from the beginning. (I still wonder how did I missed them all…since I am really interested in al kinds of framework architectures…).

I have to say that after I’ve gone thru the articles I was amazed. Being a SWT developer, having some experience in Eclipse RCP I just realized that from now on Eclipse RCP has a strong competitor named Spring RCP.

From the concept poit of view the Spring RCP seams similar to Eclipse RCP, the biggest differences I have saw are:

  • the application container behind Spring RCP is the Spring beans framework, whereas in Eclispe RCP there is Equinox OSGI implementation
  • Spring RCP is based on Swing where as Eclipse RCP is SWT and JFace.

The rest are mainly details…

So from now on if you do want to build a powerfull desktop application you have two strong options Eclipse RCP and Spring RCP.

I think that this is really good for us developers that we have the option to choose… So choose wiselly.

Until next time, I wich U

Happy Conding

Resources:

http://java.dzone.com/news/practical-introductions-spring

Eclipse:

www.eclipse.org/rcp/

http://www.eclipse.org/equinox/

http://www.eclipse.org/swt/

Spring:

http://www.springframework.org/

http://spring-rich-c.sourceforge.net/1.0.0/index.html