RIM Shares Fundamentals Guide for Using jQuery with WebWorks on BlackBerry
Erik O from RIM’s Developer Relations Team shared a new fundamentals guide that RIM has created for WebWorks developers. This new guide seems to cover everything from the basic jQuery knowledge of what the framework does to getting a hello world app created from the provided sample. It has something for beginning devs to intermediate…
BlackBerry DevCon Europe Mobile Conference Guide Available
BlackBerry DevCon Europe is about to kick off on February 7-8 in Amsterdam so its nice to see RIM has their session guide up. For this conference they have selected The Active Network to develop the app. Nothing really special that you have not seen in previous conference apps but it gives you access to…
BlackBerry PlayBook Interactive How To Guides
I was trying to help a friend learn how to make the most of his BlackBerry PlayBook and spotted a great resource while looking. RIM has posted a whole slew of BlackBerry PlayBook how to guides for practically every feature and app on the PlayBook. It is really thourough and since it is a Flash…
BlackBerry PlayBook Application UI Design Guidelines
I have been working on a few BlackBerry PlayBook applications over the last few weeks. A friend of mind pointed out to me that RIM published up their customary development guidelines for the BlackBerry PlayBook. This guide details how RIM thinks application developers should design their user interface and the different factors they should have…
2010 Holiday Gift Guide for the BlackBerry Enthusiast
Every year I get inundated with questions from friends and family on what to buy a BlackBerry user (or any smartphone user) for the holidays. In that vein I decided to compile a list of what I think are great gifts for BlackBerry users this holiday season. The obvious gift if you can afford it…
Holiday or Secret Santa Gadget Gift Ideas for Under $30
My crew of friends decided to have a Secret Santa event this year for the first time. I have never done one before so when I got my assignment I was scrambling for gift ideas. While our Secret Santa is limited to $20 I obviously found quite a few of my gift ideas that came…
New BlackBerry Beginner Java Development Book by Bill Foust
There have been quite a few new BlackBerry development books released recently. The latest is from Bill Foust and is titled “BlackBerry Java Application Development: Beginner’s Guide.” The book is not exactly a beginner development guide but rather expects you to know Java but not mobile Java and the BlackBerry API’s. In other words it…
Awesome BrickBreaker Guide Teaches You How to Improve Your Game
The classic BrickBreaker BlackBerry game always reminds me of when I used to play Snake for hours on my Nokia 6150 way back in the day. It is a simple game that inspires hours of gameplay and is always a good time waster between meetings. I really wish RIM would come up with a follow…