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Category: General

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...

General, S60, Symbian C++, Testing

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...

General

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...

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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...

General, S60, Symbian C++, Testing

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...

General, S60, Symbian C++, Testing, Maemo

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...

General, S60, Symbian C++, Testing

An Open Mobile Software Foundation?

I'd like to get some feedback from the developer community on something I've been thinking about lately.  This post is going to be quite long so please bear with me... What I like about open source software A lot of people have written about the benefits of open source...

General

Fishing for information

I spend quite a bit of time helping out people on the discussion boards .  When I'm answering questions these days I try to keep this old proverb in mind: "Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today.  Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime." ...

General

S60 vs Maemo

I'm a big fan of mobile devices as pocket-sized computers and get excited by the potential of truly mobile computing.  Having worked for mobile phone manufacturers for most of my career, and now as a Forum Nokia Champion , I've generally had the latest greatest phone from back...

General

Trolltech, Linux, Open Source, the future?

I've had a week to let the Trolltech news sink in so I thought I'd share my thoughts on it. There's been a lot of discussion of Nokia's latest acquisition on the web.  A number of Linux & FOSS fans are talking about the demise of Symbian.  Some Symbian fans are...

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Nokia breaks the 40% barrier!

Hi, So after asking a couple of times and waiting patiently for my Forum Nokia Champion blog it turns out I've had one for ages and didn't realise! Since Nokia have very kindly made me "Champion of the Month" I thought I'd better start blogging.  What better way to...

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