Tim N.

Tim leads Application Platform & Tools Product Management at Research In Motion. This includes APIs, Frameworks and Tools for the BlackBerry Platform. He can be found hanging out in the development forums or Twitter (@brcewane) trying to help out where he can and to bring your feedback into the next releases of BlackBerry tooling. You’ll also see Tim presenting various topics at the BlackBerry Developer Conferences and BlackBerry World so be sure to stop by and say hi. Just don’t start talking about cars or Batman or you won’t be able to get rid of him.

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Adobe AIR SDK

Check out the latest episode in our BlackBerry Jam Unplugged video series! Hot on the heels of our last episode, which covered the Momentics tooling, this particular video will fill you in on our SDK for Adobe AIR. Julian Dolce joins us to discuss upcoming roadmap items that we’re looking at to improve the AIR […]

BlackBerry Jam Unplugged: Momentics Tooling

Last year we started sharing roadmaps for our tools and APIs with our community, and now we’re looking to give that information a bit more color. Sure, there’s a little bit of information on the roadmaps talking about what the features will entail, but we don’t usually get the chance to explain them in more […]

BlackBerry 10 OLED Control Coloring Update

With the release of the Gold BlackBerry 10.1 SDK, we wanted to touch base on some of the updates when it comes to OLED displays.  For one, the default theme for an OLED BlackBerry 10 device display is the dark theme which reduces burn-in and also reduces power consumption. There will also be additional color […]

BlackBerry Q10 SDK Update

[Update - February 6th: If you've upgraded already - head over to the download page again - we've provided a refresh of the SDK to correct an issue some developers have reported.] With the successful launch of BlackBerry 10, we now turn our attention to letting developers know what to expect from the BlackBerry 10 […]

BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha OS Update – January 30th

With the BlackBerry 10 launch event just around the corner, we’re also making an update available for the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha A and B testing devices. That’s right – on January 30th we’ll be providing an updated version of the BlackBerry 10 SDK and OS for the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha A and B […]

bbUI.js version 0.9.5 signed, sealed and delivered

With bbUI v0.9.5, <meme>We Has JavaScript</meme>. The focus in this release has really been another round of bug fixes, optimizations and additional JavaScript interfaces. The previous versions of bbUI have started to improve with the number of JavaScript interfaces, but still haven’t provided full dynamic functionality. This release gets us further towards our goal of […]

bbUI.js version 0.9.4 has landed

After a bunch of hard work, bbUI version 0.9.4 is finally here. The focus in this release has really been around bug fixes, optimizations and additional JavaScript® interfaces. The previous versions of bbUI have been VERY declarative and haven’t allowed for much manipulation after the fact via JavaScript. This release takes a step in the […]

One Door Closes, Another Door Opens

We’ve been talking a lot lately about native development, web development, and our Cascades™ UI framework – but one topic that has been noticeably absent is theme development. From the tweets coming into @BlackBerryDev and from discussions with developers at BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tours and BlackBerry Jam Americas, there are two main questions: Where […]

BlackBerry Jam Americas 2012: Flight Arrival Boards and Roadmap Updated

We’ve updated our flight arrival boards to provide statuses on all of the feature functionality delivered with the September BlackBerry® 10 development tools update. Along with this, we’ve updated some milestones leading up to the Gold SDK releases. In my previous blog post, I mentioned that we were still considering whether or not to do […]

Flight Arrival Boards have been posted!

With the help of our web design wizards at The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), we’re happy to announce that our BlackBerry® 10 Roadmap flight arrival boards are now available. Unlike the image posted above, the BlackBerry 10 Roadmap flight arrival boards have real roadmap data instead of yummy Bacon Ipsum dummy data. These roadmap arrival boards […]