Category Archives: Interviews/Thought Leadership
BlackBerry Tablet OS – A discussion with Dan Dodge
BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet and BlackBerry® Tablet OS interview with co-founder and CEO of QNX Software Systems Dan Dodge!
BlackBerry Developer Executives Interactive Webcast May 25th
BlackBerry Developer Executives host an interactive webcast May 25th. Register now!
BlackBerry Developer Resource Fridays: Week of May 7th
The latest BlackBerry developer resource additions to the BlackBerry Developer Zone.
MWC 2010 Follow Up: Interview with Adobe’s Serge Jespers
Adobe’s Serge Jespers talks BlackBerry development tools at Mobile World Congress 2010.
Explaining BlackBerry Security for Developers: Code Signing
In parts one and two of this series on security, we discussed IT Policy and Application Control. Today, we’ll discuss the final piece of the puzzle with code signing. More accurately, let’s return to the dialog prompt that grabbed your interest in the first place: “This application does not contain a signature. It might not [...]
Explaining Digital Rights Management
I get asked about digital rights management (DRM) often enough that it’s probably high-time I do some writing about it. For those who don’t know, DRM generically refers to access control software used for limiting usage of digital media. For those that want to know more about what DRM options are available to them on [...]
Explaining BlackBerry Security for Developers: Application Control
In part one of our three-part series on BlackBerry® security, we discussed the nuances of enterprise IT policy. Today, we’ll discuss application control. In contrast to IT policy, which IT administrators use to manage and control employee use of BlackBerry smartphones, application control refers to a security setting that can be managed by the end-user and/or the [...]
Explaining BlackBerry Security for Developers: IT Policy
So you’ve had your stroke of genius, you’ve developed the BlackBerry® smartphone application that’s going to sell a million copies on BlackBerry App World™, and you’re ready for your final end-to-end testing on a live device. You put the application up on your web server, enter the URL into the BlackBerry® Browser, choose the option to [...]
BlackBerry Game Development Tips (Part 2) – UI Guidelines
In part one of this series, we discussed some of the physical features of BlackBerry® smartphones and how you should handle them. Today, we’ll focus more on how users interact with BlackBerry smartphones. Tip 4: Use the features of the BlackBerry smartphone! A) BlackBerry smartphone owners are used to interacting with the device in specific ways. [...]
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. [...]
