Merci Paris! BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour Update

Alex Kinsella — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:01:38 +0000

Here’s a guest post from Kamel Lajili – Ed.

On June 12th, it was BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tour stop #5, 300 meters a way from the fabulous Eiffel Tower.

We showed a technically engaged audience of developers what it was like to create apps on our new platform and what a bright future was in store for them all. The day was kicked off by Christophe Lefort, Research In Motion® (RIM®) France Managing Director, and was followed by great technical content presentations. Nick Smith from Marmalade showed how they ported several games over to both the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet and BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha.

There were developers in attendance not just from France, but also coming from overseas. Salma and Sana, both university professors from Tunisia, didn’t want to miss the BlackBerry 10 Jam day in Paris, as they are introducing BlackBerry development in their mobile computing course starting this September.

Lunchtime was a mix of need for food and great conversations, then back in to listen to the apps pitches with amazing energy in the room. There were 13 awesome lightning pitches – all the applications we saw were amazing. The audience voted for Romain Dubuc and his funny fluid innovative game Celluloid. Congratulations Romain!

There was a pretty even-steven split between the web and native tracks in the afternoon sessions. The great audience was completely attentive to what our presenters had to say, with each one trying to out do the other in level of applause. We also presented guidelines, code snippets and did many live demos.

At the end of the day, we distributed the long awaited BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices and enjoyed those happy developer faces. I really enjoyed it being here in France and meeting a lot of new and already known faces. Thank you Paris, and thank you to all the great developers who jammed with us.

BlackBerry Developer Days in Europe

Sanyu K. — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Continuing on the success of our 2010 BlackBerry® Developer Days in South America, Australia and India, we are excited to announce three upcoming BlackBerry Developer Day events in Europe!

With over 41 million subscribers in 180 countries, find out how you can profit from developing content and applications for BlackBerry. Whether you’re a business partner, content generator or app developer, if you’re looking to get started developing for the BlackBerry platform, these are events you won’t want to miss. We will even be offering simultaneous translation for both the Paris and Hamburg events!

BlackBerry Developer Day Agenda

10:00 – 10:30	Arrival, registration. Coffee, tea, pastries
10:30 – 11:15	Introduction and Success Story
11:15 – 12:00	Getting Started with the BlackBerry Solution
12:00 – 13:00	Why Java? Advantages and features of the BlackBerry Java Development Environment
13:00– 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 14:45	In the Know: Understanding BlackBerry Web and Widget Development
14:45 – 15:30	Profiting from Compelling Themes
15:30 – 16:15	Build the most desirable, most responsive, revenue-generating applications for the BlackBerry smartphone
16:15 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30	The BlackBerry Experience – creating Integrated and compelling applications
17:30 – 18:15	BlackBerry Programs for BlackBerry Solution Partners and Developers
18:15 – 19:00	Wrap up and Q&A

Please visit the BlackBerry Developer Day site for details on the full agenda, location and how to sign up. We have limited space within the events, so register today to save your spot!

Looking forward to seeing everyone there!

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Merci Paris! BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour Update

BlackBerry Developer Days in Europe

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