Click on the important links we discussed in this week’s #re-hashed video:

SDK January refreshes for:

• BlackBerry 10 Webworks SDK
• BlackBerry 10 Native SDK

Check back this week for an update about the Android and Community port-a-thons!

Have questions about what you’re seen here? Leave us comments below!

CHINICT is one of China’s largest tech innovation & entrepreneurship conferences. This 8th edition the conference officially starts on May 24th, but the doors opened a day early for the dozens of developers and designers competing for a chance to pitch alongside high-profile early-stage startups a the conference.

Franck Nazikian, the Founder of CHINICT kicked things off with platform sessions from Pearson who talked about their content APIs that offered applications free access to premium content. Everything from Jamie Oliver’s recipes to exclusive travel guides was opened up to participants to integrate into their applications. It was also quite refreshing to see the UN World Food Programme as a main supporter of the event promoting the message of Hackers Against Hunger to enhance hunger awareness in China and throughout the world.

On his first trip ever to China, Alec Saunders was up next to provide the final inspiration and encouragement to developers for the next 24 hours. Mike Zhou from the RIM China team then took the participants into a deeper dive into their platform options for building amazing applications on BlackBerry. The room erupted into excitement when they heard Mike mention the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ prize for all participants. Several came up to me and the team just to check if they had heard it correctly.

Historians say that the Chinese worked on the Great Wall for over 1700 years. It is the longest fortification ever built in history and has left its mark on not just China, but the world. As I sign off it’s hard not to notice the air of dedication and focus in the room as these developers work against time to make their mark on the world.

Alec will be speaking during the main conference as well and you can watch his interview live at 2:30 am UTC.(10:30 am EDT) at the CHINICT website.

Winners of the Hackathon will also get front seats to the BlackBerry Jam World Tour in Beijing on July 6th.

One of the true pleasures of my job is talking with developers. Creative, outspoken, funny, smart, artistic, genuine – they’re just some of the best people in the world to hang with. BlackBerry® 10 Jam was amazing last week. The code demos, AppCircus, the lunches and down time with people at the bar – these were the highlights for me.

As you know, I publish my email address everywhere (alec.saunders@rim.com), and people write to me. Nobex Chief Software Architect Jamie Julius wrote me the following last Friday, and gave me permission to share it with you all:

Hi Alec,

I wanted to thank you personally for such a great BB 10 Jam.

Last November, a letter that I had sent to someone at RIM was forwarded to you. In it I described my feelings after attending DevCon last fall in San Francisco.

Well, things have definitely changed. The difference between that DevCon and this Jam is like night and day.

Over the last three days, in keynotes and in sessions, the messages coming from RIM were very clear. Not only do we now see more clearly where RIM is going, but also what we should be doing as developers. As opposed to a vague range of technologies to be supported, it has now been made more clear which will work best for what.

For Nobex Radio, for example, all the RIM technical representatives made it very clear to me why Cascades is the way for us to go. The list of reasons is long. We never received such a clear message before.

I came away feeling that BB10 is now tangible. And I don’t just mean that I can hold the Dev Alpha device in my hand. I see real API’s! Even if some aren’t ready yet, I see them coming. I know what they will cover. That makes a really big difference. I also have an IDE with which to start writing real code. That makes a big difference too.

Back in November, games were over-emphasized. Not anymore. I think RIM has re-focused its identity. Games should definitely have an important place on BlackBerry smartphones, but not blown out of proportion.

So, a big congratulations to you and your team for doing such a great job putting together BB 10 Jam.

The enormous investment that RIM is making in dev relations has not gone unnoticed.

THANK YOU!

Jamie Julius
Chief Software Architect
Nobex Technologies

Thanks Jamie.

There are still lots of milestones to cross on the road to BlackBerry 10, but last week was a major step forward for RIM and the development community. We hope everyone who came to BlackBerry 10 Jam walked away with the same experience as Jamie, and we’re counting on you all, so let’s go write some code together!