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Meet some package owners, but don't forget your towel

Lars Kurth, the contributor community manager for the Symbian Foundation, has blogged about an event for package owners and anyone who might be interested in contributing code. As he says, there are still places available, so if you'd like to meet some package owners and...

Another chance to get access to the Symbian developer website beta

In my last post I said that people interested in the future Symbian UI should get themselves access to the developer website beta. Unfortunately it's still not ready for the grand public opening, but there's no restriction on who can be let in yet, just total numbers for the time...

The Future Symbian UI - the most important thing not discussed in Monaco

For those that haven't seen it, David Wood has posted about some proposals that Nokia have made to the Symbian Foundation here: http://blog.symbian.org/2009/04/30/reviewing-the-release-plan/ These include: 1) Qt for S60 to become an official part of the Symbian platform...

Qt to be completely free for everyone!

Just a quick post to spread the news. In their recent webinar, Forum Nokia announced their intention to make Qt on S60 free for everyone. However, from Qt 4.5, things are going even further than that (just announced on the Qt-interest mailing list). Nokia are releasing Qt...

Qt on S60 Open Source Project - Bluemapia

Do you like to work on the cutting edge of mobile technology? Are you interested in social networks or location based services using free maps? Want to get involved in an open source project on mobile phones? If the answer to any of those questions is "yes" then maybe this...

Multi-language Programming, Python, Flash Lite, C++, Java, Widgets

I've been working with some other Forum Nokia Champions and expert developers in the last few months to create some resources for Multi-language programming (mixing your favourite runtimes). The result is a series of papers for the Symbian Developer Network . In them you can find...

Symbian getting open source friendly - almost there

We've had some really great developments for open source on Symbian OS in the last couple of months, most of them have already been reported but I thought I'd do a quick summary and look at what's still needed. We had Open C/C++ to let us write standard C/C++ code on Symbian, now we've...

Code Camps - a great way to learn a new environment

I was in Berlin last week at MDD08. Some of it was good, some not so. However, one bit that I really enjoyed was the chance to learn some more about Flash Lite and write my first Flash Lite application with some experts on hand to smooth the learning curve. I got this chance...

New Stuff for Symbian C++ Developers

I thought I'd write a quick post to highlight some of the things I've been up to lately. First, there's Multimedia on Symbian OS: Inside the Convergence Device , which I co-authored for Symbian Press. It should be available next month. Lots of great stuff for...

S60 Under-engineered?

Having quoted a Nokia employee in my recent blog post , saying that open sourcing S60 was like spreading manure out on a field, I thought I'd share my latest insight with you. I'm reading "Refactoring to Patterns" by Joshua Kerievsky ; so far, it's excellent. While I...

Symbian Foundation Implications

It's been a few weeks since the big announcement and I think I've finally digested it. My fellow champion Gabor Torok has already collected a lot of interesting analysis but there are a couple of more recent links with inside perspectives that are worth a read. There's an...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

New developer resources that is. These are just some that I've looked at recently but here are my recommendations... The Good: Quick Recipes on Symbian OS This book is designed as a 2 week self-study course for Symbian C++. There's a section to get...

Symbian Signed - a proposal

OK, so it's easy to criticise Symbian Signed but they have been improving things. I still think there's further to go so here's my simple proposal for the next step. I'll call it Free Signed. Free Signed is just like Express Signed except that it's free and there're no test...

Application Quality & Numpty Physics

In my last post I talked about a smart new S60 application and its implications for Symbian Signing and platform security. I said I'd talk about the other part of Symbian Signing, application quality, in my next post... so here it is already. My personal opinion is that what...

Who will guard the guardians?

This is a dual purpose post. First I want to highlight the brilliant work of one of my fellow Forum Nokia Champions - Marco Bellino of Symbian Toys fame. His recently released application, Guardian , is really impressive and I strongly recommend downloading it to check it out...

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