Happy 2009! For the new year, we released an updated version of the
HostJ2ME.com UI. The new UI is sleeker, provides more information, and
streamlines the process of hosting applications. We also added the ability
to send text SMS messages and application URLs to phones around the world.

Take a look at the updated UI and let us know what you think...

This morning I noticed a foreign key problem on the user_details table which
prevented some users from creating account. The problem has been resolved.

We are in the process of upgrading the server with a new UI and encourage
anyone who encounters issues with the new server to contact
info@hostj2me.com via email.

You can now access the new mobile site (xhtml) for HostJ2ME.com through the
following address.

http://m.hostj2me.com

I just recently discovered MobileRunner. It is a web-based emulator for
mobile browsing (micro-browsers) which recently added a Java ME emulation
component.

For more information visit: http://www.mobilerunner.net

I was receiving several emails per day with a from address spoofed to make
it appear as if the emails were sent from one of my domains. SPF records can
ameliorate the problem of sender spoofing for your domain. Microsoft has a
wizard that guides you through the creation of the SPF records.

Microsoft's wizard is available here:

Microsoft SPF Wizard

As aforementioned, I moved HostJ2ME.com to Slicehost. The move was simple
and pain free.

I did find a few of my favorite commands, host, nslookup, and whois, where
not installed on my CentOS 5.2 slice by default.

If you see something like

whois: command not found
host: command not found

You may need to install the commands using yum. Here is how to install
commands using yum.

For host and nslookup:

[root@HostJ2ME ~]# yum install bind-utils

For whois:

[root@HostJ2ME ~]# yum install jwhois

I should also mention that dig is replacement for nslookup.