Monthly Archives: August, 2009

How-to Set up a Lightning Fast BlackBerry Smartphone Simulator

Many times while coding an application for BlackBerry® smartphones, I want to quickly start the BlackBerry® Smartphone Simulator and see what I have achieved so far. Micro-iterative coding is my style of choice. I don’t need to debug any code, I just want to see it running; If it doesn’t work, then I’ll begin debugging. […]

BlackBerry Storm Development Getting Started Links

New BlackBerry® smartphone releases can prompt a whole new set of development requirements and best practices in order to maximize software potential for that device; this is a development reality. [...]

BlackBerry App World web store launches!

In case you missed it, the new BlackBerry App World™ web store launched last week and we’ve been very pleased with the positive response from BlackBerry® users. And I think BlackBerry developers should be even more excited about what this means for promotion of their apps in BlackBerry App World! [...]

More great BlackBerry developer Knowledge Base articles

Yesterday, I posted about an interesting Knowledge Base article that had been kicking around the Developer Support cubicles. Today, I wanted to point to a few more Knowledge Base articles that are great resources for new BlackBerry® developers. [...]

How-To Develop Applications for different BlackBerry Device Software versions and BlackBerry Smartphone Models

One of the best resources for new BlackBerry® developers is the BlackBerry Knowledge Base, a database of great technical articles on various aspects of the BlackBerry platform. [...]

BlackBerry Java Application Development v5.0 Beta now live!

I am happy to announce that updated versions of the BlackBerry® Java® Application Development tools are available for download on BlackBerry® Developer Zone, including the BlackBerry® Java Development Environment Plug-in for Eclipse and the BlackBerry® Java Development Environment. [...]

BlackBerry Developer Conference Session Catalog is Live!

I am very pleased to announce that the session catalog for the BlackBerry® Developer Conference 2009 has now gone live listing over 40 sessions from BlackBerry development experts from Research In Motion (RIM). [...]

BlackBerry App World Latin America Launch

Hot on the heels of the BlackBerry App World™ v1.1 release and the first geographic expansion on July 31, I am thrilled to announce the continued rollout of App World to Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico! [...]

BlackBerry Developer Getting Started Links

Developers new to the BlackBerry® platform need not worry about where to begin. We’ve compiled a list of handy links and resources from the BlackBerry Developer Zone for some light reading so you can avoid those Thursday work blues! [...]

Media Actions API in BlackBerry JDE v5.0.0 How-To

I would like to talk about a new API feature in the BlackBerry® Java® Development Environment v5.0 (Beta) I worked on called the Media Actions API. [...]