What this program basically does is to respond to “^SYSSTART” messages coming from the TC65 chip to launch an OTAP update and/or launch the program. But in the details it does a little bit more as it can auto-detect the port of the chip.

Some of the features might not be working great or even not working at all. The program will be improved with the time, my testings and your comments but it’s currently used for my own needs.

You can download it.

Here is the “-h” output :

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TC65FM 0.1 - Fast Manager - Copyright WebIngenia 2010
 
 -b  --behavior <behavior>     Behavior, can be : 
       i  / install              Install only
       r  / run                  Run only
       ri / run-and-install      Run and install
       n  / none                 Nothing
 -na --net-apn <apn>           Network APN
 -nu --net-user <user>         Network User
 -np --net-password <password> Network password
 -nd --net-dns <dns>           Network DNS
 -au --application-url <url>   Application url
 -sA --serial-autodetect       Serial auto-Detect
 -sp --serial-port <port>      Serial port (default: COM4)
 -ss --serial-speed <speed>    Serial speed (defau:t 9600)
 -tp --target-program          Target program
 -ni --no-ipr                  Desactivate IPR command (not recommended)
 -ae --autostart-enable        Enable autostart
 -ad --autostart-disable       Disable autostart
 -at --autostart-time          Time before autostart
 -pc --password-current        Current password
 -pn --password-next           Next password
 -h  --help                    This help

There’s also a “network autodetection” feature which is in a very early stage. So if you want to test it you can using the “-nA” option (but you shouldn’t).

Let’s say you want to automatically install the program each time a chip (configured with a serial baudrate of 9600) connects to the COM4 port :

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tc65fm -sp COM4 -ss 9600 -na "m2minternet" -nu "http://webingenia.com/myPath/myApp.jad" -tg "a:/wim2msoft.jad"

The program creates two types of log files. One for the complete running time and one for each communication with the chip occuring after a restart (and the identification of the chip by its IMEI).

Here is the logs of what you should get at each chip startup with this app :

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TC65FM v0.1 - Copyright Webingenia - www.webingenia.com
2010-07-17 09:43:25.682 | <-- AT
2010-07-17 09:43:25.733 | --> AT
2010-07-17 09:43:25.748 | --> OK
2010-07-17 09:43:25.766 | <-- AT+IPR=9600
2010-07-17 09:43:25.828 | --> AT+IPR=9600
2010-07-17 09:43:25.829 | --> OK
2010-07-17 09:43:25.847 | <-- AT+CFUN=1,1
2010-07-17 09:43:25.908 | --> AT+CFUN=1,1
2010-07-17 09:43:26.932 | --> OK
2010-07-17 09:43:30.164 | --> ^SYSSTART
2010-07-17 09:43:30.169 | <-- AT+CGSN
2010-07-17 09:43:30.228 | --> AT+CGSN
2010-07-17 09:43:30.292 | --> 353234023540741
2010-07-17 09:43:30.292 | --> OK

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TC65FM v0.1 - Copyright Webingenia - www.webingenia.com
2010-07-17 09:43:31.174 | <-- ATE1
2010-07-17 09:43:31.236 | --> ATE1
2010-07-17 09:43:31.253 | --> OK
2010-07-17 09:43:31.256 | <-- AT^SJOTAP=,http://webingenia.com:8080/myPath/myApp.jad,a:,,,gprs,m2minternet,,,,,,
2010-07-17 09:43:31.413 | --> AT^SJOTAP=,http://webingenia.com:8080/myPath/myApp.jar,a:,,,gprs,m2minternet,,,,,,
2010-07-17 09:43:31.461 | --> OK
2010-07-17 09:43:31.477 | <-- AT^SJOTAP
2010-07-17 09:43:31.540 | --> AT^SJOTAP
2010-07-17 09:43:31.573 | --> OK
2010-07-17 09:43:31.578 | <-- AT^SCFG="Trace/Syslog/OTAP","1"
2010-07-17 09:43:31.668 | --> AT^SCFG="Trace/Syslog/OTAP","1"
2010-07-17 09:43:31.685 | --> SYSLOG ENABLED
2010-07-17 09:43:47.622 | --> [OTAP] GPRS connection established.
2010-07-17 09:43:47.702 | --> [OTAP] Try to get http://webingenia.com:8080/myPath/myApp.jad ...
2010-07-17 09:43:51.812 | --> [OTAP] Connected.
2010-07-17 09:43:51.861 | --> [OTAP] Transfer finished.
2010-07-17 09:43:51.941 | --> [OTAP] Try to get http://webingenia.com:8080/myPath/myApp.jar ...
2010-07-17 09:44:01.781 | --> [OTAP] Connected.
2010-07-17 09:44:02.340 | --> [OTAP] Transfer finished.
2010-07-17 09:44:05.541 | --> [OTAP] JAM status: 900 Success.
2010-07-17 09:44:11.524 | --> [OTAP] Reboot now.
2010-07-17 09:44:11.540 | --> ^SYSSTART
2010-07-17 09:44:11.544 | <-- AT+CGSN
2010-07-17 09:44:11.605 | --> AT+CGSN
2010-07-17 09:44:11.652 | --> 353234023540741
2010-07-17 09:44:11.668 | --> OK

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TC65FM v0.1 - Copyright Webingenia - www.webingenia.com
2010-07-17 09:44:12.048 | <-- AT^SJRA=a:/secretApp.jad
2010-07-17 09:44:12.132 | --> AT^SJRA=a:/secretApp.jad
2010-07-17 09:44:12.389 | --> OK
2010-07-17 09:44:13.652 | --> WIM2MSoft
2010-07-17 09:44:14.036 | --> Thread-5 : [1/7] Initiating...
2010-07-17 09:44:14.534 | --> Thread-5 : [2/7] Loading settings...
2010-07-17 09:44:15.126 | --> Thread-5 : [3/7] main AT Command interface...
2010-07-17 09:44:15.222 | --> Thread-5 : [4/7] Loading SMS Management...
2010-07-17 09:44:15.510 | --> Thread-5 : [5/7] Checking SIM card...
2010-07-17 09:44:20.676 | --> Thread-5 : [6/7] Loading M2MP network communication...
2010-07-17 09:44:21.908 | --> Thread-5 : [7/7] Loading the main program...
2010-07-17 09:44:32.485 | --> nwr : NetworkLayer.Connect : Could not connect to 84.14.33.44:3000 ex : class javax.microedition.io.ConnectionNotFoundException :  Remote host has rejected the connection.
2010-07-17 09:44:53.845 | --> nwr : NetworkLayer.Connect : Could not connect to 84.14.33.44:3000 ex : class javax.microedition.io.ConnectionNotFoundException :  Remote host has rejected the connection.

Somehow it reminded me this blog post of a graphic designer (who seems quite talented and very creative) :

http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/history

I don’t know if it’s just me but I find it somehow related to what does foursquare in the way that it both help you to connect to your friends and you become rich of the location data you give them. In foursquare you have the possibility to become the mayor of nearly anything. In Google Maps, well, you possess your own tracking data.
Which basically means that the more you track, the more you create content. Couldn’t it be one of the key motivational factors ?

Google knows my mails, my contacts, my web search history, my favorites (using chrome sync), my discussions (on google talk even though I’m progressively switching to Skype), my photos, my credit card number, some friends on orkut and now my position. If you think they’re an evil big brother, you should just create better products, I’ll switch to your instantly.

The following video is about java & C# .Net. I’ve done quite a lot of C# .Net, Java and C, and some ObjectiveC (while developing iPhone applications) and a little bit of C++. The only thing I feel is that Sun with java had the good ideas, Microsoft with .Net took them and finished the work. Still, I often code in java, mostly for the TC65 chip, it’s quite comfortable. But for instance, it was longer to implement the M2MP protocol on the TC65 chip than the C# .net server. Mostly because of the unsigned types I had to “emulate” and the lack of generics (which are not available on the TC65′s JVM).

By the way, I’m running .Net apps on Linux everyday using Mono.

Here is the best example of what I’m talking about :

For all these lame people who don’t have an HTML5 compatible browser, you can go to the original video. The reason I downloaded it here in my blog is that you are forced to register to YouTube to watch it.

Edit :
I just remembered my friend Alice already has a blog where she speaks about this great robot. My excuse for not remembering it is that she doesn’t update it very often.

I sold an out of order (and sold as out of order) iBook G4 on Ebay and I got 89 € from it (+11 € of shipment costs). So, I received the 100 € payment on paypal. I didn’t really care about money. It was just to get something from a computer we would have trashed anyway.

Then, the other guy (some Mustapha B.) launchs a dispute althought the shipment was waiting at his post office. Then he goes to his post office, and gets the computer. And then guess what, Paypal gives him back the money without contacting me. But I still got to pay the paypal fees, the ebay fees and the shipping cost.

This whole story is so weird I can’t understand it myself.

It’s really not about the 15 € lost in the deal. It’s about this company that made me lose some time to explain the situation and finally just gave back the money to the “buyer”.

Edit :
I finally got an answer from them. And they told me they only give their money back to buyers. Here is the reply in french : “Nous regrettons de vous informer que votre transaction ne peut faire l’objet d’une indemnisation, cette option étant uniquement destinée aux acheteurs.”.

So… I’m closing my paypal and ebay accounts (as soon as possible, because they’re blocking it right now).

Skype is the only one client that isn’t open in any way (application and every protocols). Well I must say, they’ve released their SDK (SkypeKit) very recently (the 22/06/10). People can now build softwares around Skype. But this is not what I want to talk about.

Why I am starting to like Skype ? It’s the best around multiple computers. I can open it on Windows host, a Mac Os X host, a Linux host, and iPhone and still follow the same chat conversation without losing any word of it. What you received is shared among all computers and what you send too. This might also be the biggest drawback for some people. You have to take care of closing your session at work before talking trash about your boss.

Why I’m still not loving it ?

• The available / away state clearly doesn’t work well. It just fails to automatically detect the available / away state. It feels like it’s a totally broken feature (and I’m not the only one who feels that way).
• Exchanged messages sometimes have pretty important delays (something like 5 to 30 seconds).

• Lars and the real girl
• Youth In Revolt
• Holly water

Well, you might have noticed it’s not a technical post. But well, it’s my blog, I can do whatever I want with it. Once I put advertisment on every page you will have the right to complain about it. I always thought I would put some ad on this blog once I reach the 3 000 visitors /month. But maybe when and if it reaches 10 000 visitors, I’ll do it.

In my tests, this class reduced the allocation time from 12 to 15 times:

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public sealed class Heap<T> where T:class, new() {
	private readonly Stack<T> _stack = new Stack<T>();
 
	private int _count;
 
	public T Allocate() {
		var obj = _count != 0 ? _stack.Pop() : new T();
		return obj;
	}
 
	public void Free( T obj ) {
		++_count;
		_stack.Push( obj );
	}
}

You might think that this process is really painful as you have to manually free every single objects you use. But in fact you just have to recycle most of the objects. If you forget some, that’s not really important (they will just get garbage collected).

During the last months I spent some time writing a document on the TC65 development. It is primary aimed at TC65 project managers and developers.

This document can be considered as a draft and I’m waiting for any of your comments to fix / improve / complete it. It’s currently 40 pages long.

Here is the document.