Nobex Radio Engineer Shares Thoughts On Cascades & BlackBerry 10
Nobex Radio has long been one of the best streaming radio solutions for BlackBerry and many other platforms. That is why I found it very reassuring to read an editorial by Nobex Radio Chief Software Architect, Jamie Julius, on Cascades development for BlackBerry 10. When compared to traditional BlackBerry Java development it is stunning to…
Devs: RIM Updates App World Vendor Agreement & Merchant of Record
RIM has sent out an update to their previously revised App World Vendor agreement that clarifies some of the issues vendors had with the previous addendum and clarifies others. First of all RIM no longer requires all payments inside apps to go through App World’s Payment Service for in app payments. On the other hand…
RIM Launches BlackBerry Jam Developer Rewards & Badges
This week RIM sent me an email saying that I unlocked the BlackBerry 10 Jam badge for attending the first annual BlackBerry 10 Jam event in Orlando. I logged into the new BlackBerry Developer Zone and there in the top right corner I redeemed my badge and noticed a bunch of new badges that…
Devs: Restore or Unbrick your BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha Now Possible
Some developers who went to BlackBerry 10 Jam or the World Tour and did a security wipe of their BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha realized a big pain point of the device. If you wiped it then you would lose apps like the Camera and such along with a few other features. Shane over @OSBB noticed…
Devs: RIM to Discuss Native & Web SDK Updates in Two New Webinars
Thanks to Ofutur for pointing out that along with announcing the upcoming BlackBerry 10 SDK updates coming this month RIM has also announced two new webinars. Both webinars are going to be held on July 19th which means we will probably see these SDK updates soon. There will be one focused on HTML5 and another…
All BlackBerry 10 Developer SDKs to Get a Major Update in July
This seems to coincide nicely with the new BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha update that is supposed to come this week. RIM has sent out an email to all developers confirming that all BlackBerry 10 developer SDKs “will receive a major update in July” and they are “looking forward to the astonishing apps you’ll be able…
BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour Presentations Now Available Online
James let me know that RIM has made the slideshow presentations from BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour available on their website. Sadly these do not include the audio from the presentations but hopefully RIM plans on releasing that too. Until then you can suck up the content from the Native, WebWorks, and Enterprise tracks. Check…
Alec Saunders Responds to Survey Claiming RIM is Losing Developer Interest
We avoided mentioning this survey earlier today due to the traditional “lies, damn lies, and statistics!” problem I have with surveys that lack any details of how they were preformed. The latest one from Baird Equity Research (via AllThingsD) questioned 4,300 developers interest and long term outlook for different platforms. Their results of their survey…