Wednesday February 23, 2005 J2ME in tha house, in tha house! Lemme hear you say, "Ho! Ho! Hey! Hey!"
Sameer Bhatia of Octane Technologies says that writing portable J2ME games (which was a $1.2 billion industry last year and growing fast!) is hard work. See: Boo hoo. J2ME porting can be hard work. He says one way to ease this problem is to outsource the work. Bzzzt. Wrong answer. Try again. Outsourcing J2ME games is cheap, but having in-house developers gives you faster turn-around time, better creative control, and ability to change anything in your software on a dime without a time-lag. You mitigate the complexity of all the different phones and environments you must port to, by using good engineering and tools like J2ME Polish (that's "polish" as in shining something by rubbing it). See Darryl Mocek's Weblog post about J2ME Polish Sometimes the correct answer to a complex problem is a well-engineered architecture and a good set of tools. Outsourcing is the answer to simple problems that are routine and easy enough to have anyone do. |
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