Some of the People Behind BlackBerry 10
One of the coolest features in BlackBerry 10 is the awesome browser that blows away the competition in many respects. I have had a chance to play with it and its an impressive accomplishment for RIM. Jason sent us a tweet posted by Sebastien Marineau, SVP BlackBerry OS at RIM & QNX, with a shot…
Devs: BlackBerry 10 & OS 7 Added to WhenCanIUse Browser Support Reference
Web developers are used to the pain of finding out what new HTML5 or CSS3 features are supported in each browser along with their quirks. There are quite a few resources to help devs with one of them being WhenCanIUse (WCIU). WCIU is a useful refence that just lets you type in or select a…
Devs: RIM Webinar on bbUI.js Framework Today at 11AM EST
All the WebWorks devs out there may want to dial in to a webinar RIM is hosting today at 11AM EST (8AM PST). The webinar is titled “Develop Outstanding Apps with bbUI.js.” Sorry for the late notice on this one but one of my dev buddies just let me know about it. In case you…
Free Minimal HTTP Web Server For Your PlayBook
Now this is a concept that I can see going places on the PlayBook and BlackBerry 10. Jason Ernst has released a very minimalist HTTP Web Server app for the PlayBook that lets you serve HTML pages or files from your PlayBook. For now it serves out the files in your Share/Documents folder on port…
HTML5Rocks.com Developers Resource Site Gets Redesigned
The popular HTML5Rocks website got a nice update in the last few days that gave it a huge visual overhaul. The new site is still an awesome resource for web developers who want to learn more about the power of HTML5. Google is a big contributor to the site though they have published tutorials from…
RIM Hosting “The Future of Web Development” Webcast on January 17th
WebWorks and web devs working on BlackBerry apps should mark their calendars. PDM forwarded us an email RIM sent out to developers announcing a new webcast on “The Future of Web Development.” RIM says this is to prepare for BlackBerry DevCon Europe and give a taste of what is to come. The webcast is open…
Fixmo Web Messenger Comes Out Of Beta
In case you missed it back in May when it was released in beta form Fixmo Web Messenger is now available to all. Fixmo Web Messenger lets you BBM through your phone from any PC or Mac with Flash installed. Its a pretty slick service and they have added some nice feature since the…
RIM Explains How to Debug WebWorks Apps Using Web Inspector & Other Tools
We broke the news of Web Inspector coming preloaded on the BlackBerry PlayBook before its launch back in mid April. I absolutely love this feature and can’t wait for when BlackBerry OS 7 brings it to BlackBerry devices too. It is what allows us to create and debug BlackBerry sites like the BerryReview PlayBook Edition…