By Nick Fox on Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:40 AM

This project allows someone to track a GPS enabled cell phone using Google maps. For this project we used a Motorola i355 cell phone on the Sprint/Nextel network. The software will run on any Java Me enabled phone that has GPS. You need to have a data plan so that you can make updates to your website from the cellphone. Please read the ReadMe.txt file in the download for installation instructions. I hope you enjoy the project. If you have any questions, feel free ask them in the forum on sourceforge. Click here to go directly to the tutorial.

By Nick Fox on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:15 AM

The pictures that are at the top of each page were painted  by Utagawa Hiroshige about 200 years ago. I love his art. Especially the way he contrasts his use of blues and reds. Edo was what is now called Tokyo.

You can read more about him at Wikipedia.

By Nick Fox on Saturday, November 24, 2007 12:30 PM

Welcome to websmithing! Here you'll find the most comprehensive tutorials and code samples explaining how to connect real world devices to the internet. There are many books and online tutorials that explain single programming languages and platforms. But to integrate devices like cell phones with websites, it requires the use of many languages and platforms. Here you learn how to put together all those languages to come up with cool applications. Not only will you learn how to put together the software, but you can download proven open source code from sourceforge that we have written. We show you different ways of integrating software, one using Microsoft technologies such as C#, .NET and SQL Server and the other using the LAMP stack, which is Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.