BlackBerry 10 Jam Asia Session Catalog Now Available
BlackBerry Jam Asia is happening 29-30 November in Bangkok, Thailand and RIM has now posted the session catalogs. Registration is pretty cheap but RIM is offering up some complimentary passes so check your email if you have a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha or have an App World Vendor account. There are some hard hitting sessions…
Still Having Issues Updating Your Dev Alpha? Try RIM’s Autoloader
For those of you with BlackBerry 10 Dev Alphas who are having trouble updating to the BlackBerry 10 Beta this may be the trick for you. @bzubert from the RIM dev relations team pointed out that RIM has released a new Dev Alpha Autoloader tool to reload your BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha. It is definitely…
Ripple Accepted For Incubation by the Apache Software Foundation
At BlackBerry Jam RIM announced that they were submitting Ripple (which they acquired with TinyHippos) into the Apache Software Foundation. RIM submitted the proposal earlier this month and Gord made the formal proposal. You can check out the details from Pelegri here. From what I can tell the vote was unanimous which is impressive. Personally…
Devs: RIM Offers a Primer on BlackBerry Push For BlackBerry 10
I have been playing with RIM’s BlackBerry Push in Cascades and have been happy with the small refinements so far (No more ports!). Jason pointed out to me that Garret @RIM posted a nice explanation of how BlackBerry Push works on BlackBerry 10 and it is definitely an interesting read. It is written both for…
Devs: RIM’s "Massive Change on Collaboration; Let’s Be Open and Let’s Provide Choice"
A friend of mind sent me a great interview done by H-Online with RIM’s Pelegri Llopart and Tim Neil. They were talking about RIM “Reaping the benefits of open source” but what I found most interesting is RIM’s commitment to open source. The quote I used in the title is from Tim Neil and totally…
BlackBerry Dev Hackathon Hits NYC October 19th-20th
It is hard to believe that RIM held their first ever hackathon (if I remember correctly) in NYC for BBM a little over a year ago. That was a real turning point for RIM and it is quite amazing to see what they have accomplished since. Now they are bringing the challenge back this…
Devs: Using jQuery Mobile? Try the BlackBerry 10 jQuery Mobile Theme
In case you missed the news at BlackBerry Jam RIM has now rolled their own BlackBerry 10 theme for jQuery Mobile. Web app developers are mostly familiar with jQuery’s mobile framework that supports BlackBerry smartphones and the PlayBook. RIM has taken that support a step further by releasing a jQuery Mobile BlackBerry 10 theme for…
RIM Opens Up New Tech Center for Developers in the UK – More Coming Soon!
Developers in the UK now have a Tech Center to stop by and get some help and guidance from RIM. As they promised at BlackBerry Jam they have opened up the doors of their first BlackBerry Tech Center in their Slough office in the UK. It will be open daily from 9AM to 5PM. Devs…