Comments on: Thanks for the Open Letter to RIM Developer Relations http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/ Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:13:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Vanack http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/#comment-1733 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:49:00 +0000 http://devblog.blackberry.com/?p=3286#comment-1733 This is sad! Clearly RIM do not understand that they need to attract developers to succed, not scare them away.

]]> By: Mike Kirkup http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/#comment-1732 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:16:00 +0000 http://devblog.blackberry.com/?p=3286#comment-1732 Thanks for the feedback. With the WebWorks platform we had a binary compatibility break between the 0.9.3 and 0.9.4 releases due to underlying changes in the WebView class provided by our AIR APIs. This is the reason for requiring a rebuild (and consequent re-sign) of your application. The App World operations team is actively working through the queue of applications and providing feedback to developers as soon as possible.

]]> By: App World Features Should Not be Deployed On a Friday | BlackBerry Cool http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/#comment-1731 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:11:26 +0000 http://devblog.blackberry.com/?p=3286#comment-1731 [...] /**/ /**/ « Adobe Announces Touch SDK for Tablet/Mobile Apps…BlackBerry Code Signing Key Replacement Now… »App World Features Should Not be Deployed On a Friday Postedby Kyle McInneson April 11, 2011, at 12:31 PMin Editorials. Tags: blackberry app world, blackberry developers, developers.Comments: View Comments tweetmeme_style='compact'; View CommentsIt’s commonly understood in the software business that you don’t deploy on a Friday. The logic behind it is that if you deploy on a Friday and a bug makes it into the software, you don’t have anyone around on the weekend to deal with it. We’ve noticed that RIM tends to update its Featured category in App World on a Friday and it’s not clear why. The App World team at RIM, while they may have people working on the weekends, surely don’t have the same resources on a Saturday night as they would on a Tuesday morning. Also, a major implication of being featured is that your downloads will increase and there’s additional load on your servers if your app uses them. By deploying the featured apps on a Friday, you aren’t taking into consideration the companies that have to either pay overtime to have someone around to troubleshoot the server load, or answer the increase in support emails. Even if the company is just a one person shop, you’re potentially ruining weekends and that’s just not groovy.Maybe this didn’t merit a post on its own but we’ve had a couple developers write in and ask that we put this up. Perhaps more developers are looking to the blogs to get changes made ever since that lone blogger garnered so much attention.google_ad_client="pub-7131708721983712";google_ad_slot="2579457768";google_ad_width=300;google_ad_height=250; Related Posts:PlayBook Development May Be Easy But It Can Be EasierRumor: New Business Category Expected from App World in 2010Why Did RIM Pull Viral Messenger App Kik from App World?Distimo Report Shows Falling App Prices But May Be Innacurate5 Tips for Success When Selling Your App in BlackBerry App WorldPermalinkPost Comment« Adobe Announces Touch SDK for Tablet/Mobile Apps…BlackBerry Code Signing Key Replacement Now… »blog comments powered by Disqus /**/ var DsqLocal={'trackbacks':[],'trackback_url':"http://www.blackberrycool.com/2011/04/11/app-world-features-should-not-be-deployed-on-a-friday/trackback/"}; /**/ /**/ Quick LinksReviewsEditorialsHelpPodcastsVideosSubscribeRSSPodcastEmailTwitterBBCool MobileStaff PicksThe Best Free Apps For BlackBerry foursquare FREE Google Maps FREE SmrtGuard-Free FREE THK Live FREE Poynt FREE /**/ FB.init("d404c94e6e9520664fd0095b4ee726d7");BlackBerry Cool on FacebookSpotlightsThe Story of Possibly the First Branded BlackBerry Game View CommentsHow the iPod Tax Affects the Cost of Your Smartphone in Canada View Comments5 Tips for Success When Selling Your App in BlackBerry App World View CommentsBlackBerry Style 9670 Review: The First Clamshell, Full QWERTY BlackBerry View CommentsComparing Mobihand and App World Vendor Portals: What’s Best for the Developer? View Comments /**/ Email Updates Browse by MonthApril 2011 (33)March 2011 (74)February 2011 (94)January 2011 (105)December 2010 (97)November 2010 (107)October 2010 (96)September 2010 (124)August 2010 (145)July 2010 (127)June 2010 (122)May 2010 (121)April 2010 (152)March 2010 (176)February 2010 (149)January 2010 (145)December 2009 (171)November 2009 (121)October 2009 (124)September 2009 (112)August 2009 (145)July 2009 (153)June 2009 (170)May 2009 (185)View archivesTop Tagsblackberry storm (269)blackberry (448)united-states (225)blackberry bold (253)wireless industry (658)WES (216)free app (265)RIM (1086)Rumors (362)software (664)BlackBerry-Help (231)canada (296)blackberry-curve (261)consumer (273)Announcements (912)BlackBerry CoolThe voice of the BlackBerry community. Contributors | Contact | AdvertiseCopyright ©2008 BlackBerry Cool.All Rights Reserved. PrivacyBrowse by Tags Rumors wireless industry verizon RIM blackberry bold free app software blackberry-curve BlackBerry-Help rogers blackberry Announcements enterprise canada blackberry storm WES consumer united-states Browse by CategoryBlackBerry-Help (320)Editorials (519)News (8316)Podcasts (69)Reviews (300)Spotlight (733)Top-Story (132)Videos (45)vPost (36)Weekly-Contest (18)SubscribeFeeds: RSS 2.0 | RSS 0.92 | AtomPodcast: RSS Feed | iTunesSocial: Twitter | LinkedIn | FacebookGet updates by email: [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/#comment-1730 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:36:00 +0000 http://devblog.blackberry.com/?p=3286#comment-1730 Agreed. As mentioned elsewhere, Apple’s customers are users, Google’s customers are handset manufacturers, and RIM’s customers are IT Managers. If RIM can get IT managers behind them, the rest of it doesn’t matter.

]]> By: TechU http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/#comment-1729 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:38:00 +0000 http://devblog.blackberry.com/?p=3286#comment-1729 did you people forget that “QNX” were POSIX certified RTP as was now rim , and C99 OC, did you forget that all the Linux OSS dev’s out there are also writing pure LGPL , do you not really want the option to also take that massive code base and just configure/ make it using the existing RTP photon and related base, or are you lot to young to even bother downloading the old free developer liveCD QNX dan released back in 2000 when RTO6 first appeared ?, you missed a treat if so. goggle it

]]> By: TechU http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/#comment-1728 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:25:00 +0000 http://devblog.blackberry.com/?p=3286#comment-1728 Tyler why dont you just do it ‘Dan dodge’ style and have a million downloads of RTP6.* developer in a week or even a day off public and internal cloud servers etc the connectivity has come a long way since 2000 QNX RTP real-time platform day’s

]]> By: Srinivas Govula http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/#comment-1727 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 14:48:00 +0000 http://devblog.blackberry.com/?p=3286#comment-1727 After developing the app and submiting it,
and after a three weeks got a response from a rim saying

-Please upload using the newest 0.9.4 SDK
-Please verify the new Release is signed

But the signing process and the new version of SDK was not there when it was submitted .

And don’t know when will they respond after i submitted my application again.

]]> By: Analyst Invites You to a Good, Old-Fashioned PlayBook Burning | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/#comment-1726 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:36:13 +0000 http://devblog.blackberry.com/?p=3286#comment-1726 [...] app ecosystem is piddling at best, thanks to a lousy developer experience (which, to be fair, RIM is working to improve). According to Reid’s estimates PlayBook will have less than 100 apps at [...]

]]> By: Gowmukhi http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/#comment-1725 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:31:00 +0000 http://devblog.blackberry.com/?p=3286#comment-1725 On RIM’s devloper portal its written as follow:

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]]> By: Microsoft’s Brandon Watson Teaches RIM How to Treat Developers http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/02/thanks-for-the-open-letter-to-rim-developer-relations/#comment-1724 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:08:08 +0000 http://devblog.blackberry.com/?p=3286#comment-1724 [...] viral across the web. It climbed the ranks at RIM as far as RIM’s Head of Developer Relations Tyler Lessar who posted a thank you to Jamie. To his credit, he agreed with everything that Jamie said and promised to fix [...]

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