Archive for the 'General' Category

AvantGo for BlackBerry

Two days ago, at RIM’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium, Sybase 365 released a BlackBerry client for its free AvantGo mobile content service. Read Sybase 365 Launches AvantGo for BlackBerry for the official announcement.
As the lead developer for this project, I’m very happy to see the first version of the client move out of beta and into […]

Never Send an Engineer to a Marketing Meeting!

I always thought there was something fishy about the name “SureType”…

(Relax, folks, it’s a joke!)

BlackBerry Programming 101: New Article on EZineArticles

I’ve published a new article titled BlackBerry Programming 101: How to Get Started With BlackBerry Software Development on the EzineArticles site. Just a basic description of what you need to learn (Java, J2ME, BlackBerry) in order to develop your own BlackBerry software applications.
Note that EZineArticle policies prevented me from placing too many links in the […]

No AppleBerry? No surprise here…

So apparently a lot of people were disappointed to discover that Apple and Research in Motion were not cooperating together to build a device that merged the capabilities of an iPod with those of a BlackBerry (presumably a variation of the BlackBerry Pearl) to create the so-called “AppleBerry”. (Or maybe “CrackPod” would be a better […]

BlackBerry Code Signing Tips

So you’ve written the perfect BlackBerry application. It runs great in the device simulator and now you want to run it on a real device. You install it, but it won’t run — because you’re using controlled APIs. That’s right, a lot of the interesting APIs on the BlackBerry — for example, the persistent store […]

The BlackBerry Pearl smartphone: Finally, a “pearl” I can relate to!

Today marks the release of the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 smartphone, the device pictured to the left. If you haven’t heard about this device yet, now would be a good time to read the press release announcing the BlackBerry Pearl. The Pearl is initially available on T-Mobile in the United States (starting today) and on […]