Update: RIM Needs to Provide Guidance on Super Apps, BBM SDK
Update: Mea Culpa. Below is the final copy of Chris’s article that is now correctly updated. He wrote the draft we posted earlier today before we mentioned the slides from MWC. He then updated the article and I accidentally published his older draft. Sorry for the confusion. -RH You wouldn’t know it from reading the mainstream media…
RIM Needs to Provide Guidance on Super Apps, BBM SDK
Update: Sorry for the confusion. You can find the updated final copy of Chris’s article that is now correctly updated. I accidentally posted an older draft which you see below. -RH You wouldn’t know it from reading the mainstream media but the BlackBerry platform has a number of competitive advantages that remain unmatched by the competition. One…
DevCon Americas 2011 Highlights: A Developer’s Perspective
For the fourth year in a row, I headed down to the San Francisco area for the annual BlackBerry Developers Conference (DevCon). By now many of you will have read the announcements and press releases so instead of rehashing them here let me share some first-hand experiences and highlights from the perspective of someone who…
Developing for OS7 Analysis: What Developers Need to know (Recap)
Earlier today RIM hosted a webinar for developers on what they need to know about BlackBerry 7. I am pretty excited to see what new APIs will be available and how I can put them to work in my apps, so I tuned in to see what’s coming. Here is a quick recap of my…
The BlackBerry Playbook Native SDK (NDK): What Is It Good For? (A Developer’s Perspective)
Intro: Chris Balavessov is the developer behind the popular BlackBerry personal organization app Viira and its MS Outlook companion the Viira Outlook Suite. On Thursday I tuned in to RIM’s Webcast on the Playbook’s Native SDK (NDK). As a BlackBerry developer my goal was to get a feel for the various ways you can make…