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Nokia innovation article
Business week are running an article about innovation and Nokia.
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/apr2008/gb20080430_764271.htm
Remember to click the slide show at the end of the article to see the phone designs people came up with.
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How bust is TVersion?
This little structure is useful for communicating version information.
Amongst things, it is used to check the client and the server versions are compatible as well as being used as part of the sis installer versioning
Now what will the following print?
const TVersion...
Uid's and Symbian Signed
Here is a quick review of the UID strategy in Symbian and how it applies to Symbian Signed.
Everything you need to know is in the link below thanks to Dave Mery:
http://developer.uiq.com/forum/entry.jspa?entryID=114
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Nokia's purchase of TrollTech
A former work collegue Andreas Constantinou, now director of Vision Mobile has dissected Nokia purchase and why they did it. http://visionmobile.com/blog/2008/02/nokia-does-trolltech-preparing-the-ground-for-ovi/ It does however provide a good insight into the many reasons that Nokia...
Nokia Aquires TrollTech
Nokia have announced they have bought TrollTech. TrollTech are the guys that have been making the Qtopia UI tools and widgets for various phones and desktops (primarily Linux) This is great news as I am a great fan of this for UI's as they are easy to use and develop with in C++! ...
Password based encryption
I have posted a new wiki entry on using the password based encryption API's
Password Encryption
This example shows how to encrypt a password using the PBE API's which a much simpler than using the RAW API's as these use chaining and require different and correct block sizes to avoid...
Symbian/Nokia KB updates
First off Symbian have updated the help compiler to fix the issues with rtf files saved in newer versions of Microsoft Word.
You can download the new compiler from FAQ 1436 - just follow the instructions and replace the one file.
This certainly fixed my problems with Microsoft Word...
Updates from Symbian
Symbian have released some useful source code in the last month:
First up the Crypto API's are now avaliable for download
http://developer.symbian.com/main/downloads/files/SymbianCryptographyLibraries.exe
Also there is now the PETran example code which has more information than...
Variants and Symbian
Been a while since I had a chance to post. What with the startup, summer holidays and work intruding.
The Champions day in Singapore was good fun, even got to meet Jukka and Anthony Pranata and
even got to do a day out around Singapore with Sammi and PushL.
During the week, I had an...
Kay mappings on the E61 etc
A couple of people this week asked how to work out what key is being pressed when capturing raw key presses. This is particularly interesting on the E61 as there are a number of variants of the keyboard and the blue keys all end up being different depending on the device and the language variant...
What does this mean for Symbian Signed
I see F-Secure are now apparently flagging two Symbian signed applications as Spyware in their mobile security application. I follow their blog quite often in my reader and this came up today: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-052007.html#00001190 They do not however publish the...
Use the XML Parser in OS 9.x
I have noticed a couple of people seem to be having problems with using the XML parser in Symbian and there are no examples outside of the devkit. The parser I will be talking about is the xml one, not the one SOAP engine as the SOAP one is Nokia specific. The key to parsing XML is to...
Use and abuse of Symbian idioms
I saw a very interesting snipped of code on the newsgroups the other day. It showed how people can so easily misuse Symbian programming idioms if they are not careful RArray<TInt>* array = new (ELeave) RArray<TInt>; array->Append(1);...
Final part of using RSendAs with an email address
This concludes the previous post on how to use RSendAsMessage to send an email. With the first post, doing it the simple way causes lots of problems and has many corner cases that it turned out the only way to do it successfully is to do it properly - like everything else in Symbian. One of...
Sending emails using RSendAsMessage
What a manic month.... Due to work overload postings have been on thin ground so here's a nice technical one! This week on the forums I notices someone asking how to use RSendAsMessage to send an email. How hard could it possibly be, sending a message via bluetooth or SMS is trivial......
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Hi, I'm Paul, but you can also call me Todd and I won't get upset.
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- At the moment I'm willing to try anything to get ODD to work
- Symbian signed and openess
- Article on Using RArray and RPointerArray on Symbians website
- Nokia innovation article
- Updated Devcert List
- DevcertList uploaded onto Wiki
- How bust is TVersion?
- Activating the task list
- Uid's and Symbian Signed
- iPhone SDK released
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