Tag Archives: development

BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour: The Next Generation (Enterprise Edition)

BlackBerry® Jam Enterprise kicks off next week in Toronto and London. This time around, we’ll be focusing on Enterprise app development. These events differ from the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour in that they are geared towards developers looking to create apps for their organization, or for the general business community. Strategy and capability for […]

Coding Open Source with Students from Across Canada

This past weekend I participated in the kickoff sprint for a truly remarkable program: The “Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects”, or UCOSP. It’s a program offered by Canadian universities, where students contribute to open source projects for course credit. This term there are more than 50 students involved from 19 universities. Six of them – […]

In Case You Missed It: Watch Don Lindsay and Chris Smith’s Keynotes from BlackBerry Jam Americas 2012

The BlackBerry® Jam Americas 2012 general session featured keynotes from our own Don Lindsay, Vice President, User Experience Design and Chris Smith, Vice President, Application Platform & Tools. During their time on stage, they announced the commitment from RIM® to making an open platform and eco-system where developers will be fully able to participate in […]

Introducing the BlackBerryDev channel on YouTube

As part of our commitment to delivering the greatest developer experience, we want to offer as many channels as possible for our community to learn and engage. The BlackBerryDev YouTube® channel is the latest offering toward that goal. We recognize that video is an incredibly flexible, powerful, and creative medium for sharing information and experience. […]

African mobile developers get a taste of BlackBerry 10 Jam in Nigeria and Kenya

Guest post from Georgina – Ed. Following the huge success of the BlackBerry® 10 Jam event in Cape Town, South Africa in July, Research In Motion® (RIM®) held a BlackBerry 10 ‘Mini’ Jam roadshow in Lagos, Nigeria at the CcHub and in Nairobi, Kenya at at the Ole Sereni Hotel in late August. BlackBerry continues […]

Dude, where’s my paint() function? – Custom UI in Cascades

Guest post from Anders – Ed. Since the first release of the Cascades™ Beta, we have received a lot of feedback, suggestions and questions from developers trying it out. Thank you for all of this — we are very grateful! It really helps us get perspective on what we are doing, how it is perceived, […]

Success in the BlackBerry Developer Support Forum

Every day, BlackBerry® developers use the BlackBerry Developer Support Forum to get help when they get stuck. Every once in a while, a thread appears that epitomizes the peer to peer interaction we envisioned when we launched these forums. I want to share with you an example of how to optimize your initial post to […]

Introducing Built for BlackBerry and the $10K Developer Commitment

Quality matters. You heard it from Alec Saunders in May at BlackBerry® 10 Jam in Orlando. Quite simply, better apps have a greater chance of success. We feel the best way to help you reach that success is to be fully committed to supporting our developer community’s efforts. Quality is the cornerstone of the developer […]

BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour: Jakarta is BlackBerry Nation

Recapping the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour stop in Jakarta, Indonesia.

PineLake Communications on Porting Cubifice to BlackBerry 10

A Q&A with members of Pinelake Communications about their experience porting the Cubifice app to BlackBerry 10.