RIM Offers Downgrade Steps from PlayBook OS 2.0 Beta to v1.0.7
This has been floating around for at least a week now in the official RIM forums but now RIM has spelled out. Some users have wanted to downgrade from the PlayBook OS 2.0 beta back to the official v1.0.7. RIM has been kind enough to detail the steps in a blog post on the BlackBerry…
Updated: RIM Deletes Mention of Removing App World From PlayBook OS 2.0 Developer Beta
Update: RIM let us know that their note in their blog post this morning that said App World not being included in this version of the PlayBook OS 2.0 developer build “was a typo that has since been removed.” Hopefully that means RIM is not even considering it anymore. Now I can finally download the update…
Updated: BlackBerry PlayBook OS v2.0.0.3894 Developer Beta Available – App World Removed!
Update: RIM let us know that their note in their blog post this morning that said App World not being included in this version of the PlayBook OS 2.0 developer build “was a typo that has since been removed.” Hopefully that means RIM is not even considering it anymore. Now I can finally download the update and check…
Devs: Respond to Millennial Media State of the Apps Survey for a Chance to Win $500
Millennial Media is working on their State of the Apps report for 2011 and they asked us to help them reach BlackBerry developers. Their survey covers info from the platforms you are developing for to your monetization goals for 2012. Their current survey is running until this coming Sunday (November 6th) and they are looking…
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…
Devs: BlackBerry Java SDK & JDE v7.0 get Maintenance Release Update
RIM released an update to the BlackBerry Java SDK and JDE v7.0 in their latest maintenance release. This new release is not a huge update but has some goodies according to RIM. They did not put up a separate change log I can find but it includes: Updates to the API documentation, code samples and…
BBM Social Platform SDK v1.0 Comes Out of Beta for WebWorks
RIM has updated the BBM Social Platform SDK out of Beta for WebWorks developers. Usually they would just promote the beta but this release includes some updates. The new gold release v1.0 of WebWorks BBM SDK includes: Published sample code and documentation for a BBM version dependency checker included all BBM WebWorks APIs into the…
BlackBerry DevCon 2011 Sessions Now Online and Available Free?!?
Usually RIM does a great job of posting up the sessions from DevCon online including audio and presentations along with sample code. The thing is that content is usually limited only to registered attendees of DevCon. Josep pointed out a thread on the forums where Adam Stanley from RIM confirms that the sessions are now…