Category Archives: Interviews/Thought Leadership
Leap of Faith
“Am I really sure about this?” I wondered to myself, looking down 900 feet from the deck of the Stratosphere Hotel in Las Vegas. There I was, strapped into a flight suit, getting ready to step off the edge of the hotel’s landmark tower and free-fall 855 feet to the ground. Billed as the longest […]
#Re-Hashed, Mon. January 14: Special Guest Alec Saunders! Las Vegas, CES, Launch, Port-a-thons!
Alex here with special guest Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations, coming to you from Las Vegas again! Check out this week’s video and the leap of faith that BlackBerry took last week! You won’t want to miss it! Click on the important links we discussed in this week’s #re-hashed video: SDK January refreshes for: […]
How A BlackBerry Dev Group Can Make A Developer Event A Success
Hedone Design is definitely not a new name for BlackBerry users. They’ve been very popular since 2008 for their great themes that let BlackBerry users completely change the look and feel of their beloved BlackBerry OS smartphones. A few weeks ago I was lucky to finally meet the CEO and Founder of Hedone Design, Branko […]
Things to think about when developing a mobile application
I was recently in Raleigh, North Carolina at the NCDevCon Conference. I was presenting things to think about when developing a mobile application. Sometimes, it seems that in the rush to get an application built and out the door, designers and developers forget that a mobile device is not the same as a desktop device. […]
Fluxible – Inspiring Talks By UX Experts From Around The World
An interview with one of the organizers of the new Fluxible conference about the origin of the event, who should attend, and what it means to the region of Waterloo.
BlackBerry 10 Jam Interview with Mippin [VIDEO]
Patrick Mollins, one of our Developer Evangelists, had a chat with Mippin (the folks behind the BlackBerry® App Generator) about building on the BlackBerry® 10 Dev Alpha device. David Mannl, the CTO of Mippin, also shared his advice for new developers considering the BlackBerry 10 platform. [YouTube link for mobile viewing]
BlackBerry 10 Jam – Interview with Occipital [VIDEO]
Patrick Mollins, BlackBerry Developer Evangelist, has a chat with Candemir Orsan and Danny Pier from Occipital about their app built on the BlackBerry® 10 platform. My favourite excerpt follows: “Patrick: ‘I’ve asked you about porting to other platforms, have you had this kind of success on other platforms?’ Danny: ‘I can say in complete honesty […]
BlackBerry 10 Jam – Interview with Michael Brooks [VIDEO]
Dan Silivestru and Gord Tanner of tinyHippos have a chat with Michael Brooks of Adobe/PhoneGap at BlackBerry® 10 Jam about their Cordova-JS Project. [YouTube link for mobile viewing]
