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Ron Liechty's Forum Nokia Blog

What do You think of our new home?

Nokia Ron | 29 October, 2007 23:10

Let us know what you think at Forum.Feedback@nokia.com or just respond to this blog. I want to emphasize how much this is YOUR community and it is YOUR opinions that matter the most to us.  We want your feedback in order to make this the most enjoyable developer community on the internet.  We did not let marketing have any say so in the Lobby, we designed it for developers, not the suits or pointy haired bosses.

 

For many months I’ve listened to both beginner and seasoned developers and they all say it is hard to find information on Forum Nokia.   I think this new developer’s community goes a long way in helping you to find information you need – at least from your fellow developers.  The Blogs Wiki and Discussions will soon have a unified single sign on so you can seamlessly move from one to the other (or to Forum Nokia for downloads) without having to re-click on the login.  The look and feel will be closer for all the elements of the community as well.

 

There were some compromises made a little less flash that some of us wanted, moving some familiar tabs to side items among other things.  The Wiki is probably the least affected community as it is the newest.  The blogs may seem the same but they have a new engine and a new ease of access so there is a really radical change of them underneath. The discussion boards had some user interface tweaks as a reorganization to be more topical had already taken place but will undergo other positive changes over the next six months.

 

This is just a start. We have a host of ideas on what we should do to improve your experience already but your feedback is needed. This is your home, kick your shoes off and make it comfortable.  Let us know at Forum.Feedback@nokia.com or comment on this blog here.

 

Ron

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Whirlwind Trip

Nokia Ron | 23 October, 2007 20:06

I had a whirlwind trip to Europe this past week. There was a wonderful (as always) Champions event in London for two days before the Symbian Smartphone Show. Forum Nokia was there to present some information about upcoming technologies and there were speakers from Nokia and non Nokia as well. This was my first time to the Symbian Smartphone show and I thought it was fairly well done. From there I went to Finland and met with colleagues and did some brainstorming.
 
Working from a home office is nice, I accomplish a lot as I don’t have distractions and I do not have a commute to work. However, I do miss the interaction with Forum Nokia members. I learn a lot just by eavesdropping on conversations that are taking place and if I get to talk to them one on one, I learn even more. I can tell you we have an electric group of Forum Nokia Champions. I don’t say that because they are shocking but because they are vibrant and exciting and quite enjoyable to be around.
 
I think I will stay close to home for the next couple of months. There are exciting new things happening on Forum Nokia beginning next week and I have a feeling my plate will be full.
 
Ron

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What's the Buzz about maemo?

Nokia Ron | 19 October, 2007 10:57

There is a lot of talk about the Nokia Internet Tablet N810 and how it uses maemo (yes no uppercase letter here) which marketing calls a computer architecture platform and you and I would clumsily call the operating system’s SDK. So what is so cool about this new technology? Why does this have a coolness factor that blows the iPhone out of the water?  Is it because it is open source? Well that isn’t that great an idea since you generally inhibits innovation and often more bureaucratic than closed systems. Is it the touch screen or User Interface, well it is sweet but it isn’t any really new.  Is it the price, well it is fairly inexpensive but not dirt cheap. What is cool what makes this the sexiest innovation in years is that you can play with it.
 
I remember my first computer and the manual that came with it said “Open the case and make sure all the cards are fitted tightly.” The manufacture specifically pointed out that PC’s are meant to be something the user can modify, it isn’t a sealed system. I was expected to know how to change cards, add RAM, write basic programs, and customize the configuration. With newer devices all of this has gone to the wayside, but with the Linux based OS and open source I am again empowered with the ability to make this computer mine.
 
Ron

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Help Nokia to Help You

Nokia Ron | 11 October, 2007 17:10

How Can Forum Nokia Help You Shorten Your Development Time? Nokia wants your feedback a special forum was created for one month to gather your input. Please take advantage of this opportunity to improve your time to market. 

 
Ron

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S60 3rd Ed. FP 2 , SDK Beta Includes Web Runtime Engine

Nokia Ron | 09 October, 2007 22:59

Today the S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 2 for C++ SDK Beta went live on Forum Nokia and with that a WRT testing environment. Note, this is a beta version, but the included WRT engine is close to final and developers are encouraged to use it. See the Tools and SDK’s: Nokia Tools web page

Additionally, a number of docs went up including
- Introducing Web Run-Time
- Getting Started with Nokia web Widget development
- Web Run-Time API Reference
- Porting Apple Dashboard widgets to S60

The getting started and the Porting guides include example widgets.
See http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/documentation/index.html

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It Takes Time

Nokia Ron | 09 October, 2007 00:13

How many times have you heard the phrase it takes time. Two pretty common ones are: it takes time to do a good job, it takes time to do it right. You know it does, but the best way to save time is to do it right the first time. An old story is the boss who gave three electronic engineers one third of the project to complete within six weeks. This program was in modules so none of them depended on the other engineers involvement. The first engineer immediated developed a prototype using a high level language he was fluent in that basically did what he wanted before writing it in the language specified. The next developer started directly with specified language and perfected each section as he completed it. The last engineer smply sat at his desk and occasionally jotted down a note or two that no one understood by his self.
 
After three weeks the engineer who had done the prototpye foutnd that the steps he had taken in the high level language did not translate into the same steps in the language specified, he was already a week behind with only three weeks to go. The engineer who perfected each section as he went along found that he often had to go back as the final elements never quite worked to gether, he was also a week behind. With three weeks to go the third engineer, looked once again at all his notes, turned on the computer and began writing the module.
 
With one week to go, the first two engineers were at their bosses desk asking for more help and an extension, there was no way to complete their assigned tasks with just the one week left. The third engineer was also at his bosses desk but he was there to ask for the rest of the week off; his job was done.
 
I am an action person, I want to jump in and do it now. I want to see instant results. When I take the time to plan out what I want and write it down. When I wait and look at all the outcomes. When I consider the options and make sound decisions before starting. I find that I save the most time and my work is the best.
 
Ron

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Time Immemorial

Nokia Ron | 06 October, 2007 00:45

British law sets the start of time as September 3rd 1189. All POSIX based operating system sets the start of time as Midnight, January 1st 1970 CUT. Apple set the start of time on Macintosh operating systems at Midnight, January 1st 1904 as it saves one equation necessary to determine if it is a leap century or not. For some of us time started the day we were born. For others, time started when man first started telling stories that were passed down. Some believe time started with the (ever increasingly disproved) Big Bang Theory and others may believe that there was only time before the Big Bang. How can anyone manage something so overwhelming as time. Is “Time Management” and oxymoron?
 
Time management is a skill I have yet learned to master but I would not consider it an impossible task. At some times I do very well managing time. In fact if it wasn’t for outside influences I would have no problem completing all of my day to day work in a few hours. What takes most of my work time is one time only requests or demands upon my time. What I was taught was to build in to your schedule time for these external times and budget your time accordingly. One way to free up time is to not go to meetings where you are not needed. Read the minutes of the meeting, talk to someone that encapsulates it, or just ignore it totally. If you take stock of your time; log what you do every day; you will find that meetings and phone calls (or e-mail) are the biggest time waster of your day.
 
Stop doing the time wasters. For example I’m on a group list at work and get 20 or so messages a day from the list server. I filter my mail so that any from that group is diverted to a sub folder in Outlook and I never read it until the end of the day. If I am busy it can wait to be read another day or two. Do not attend every meeting, and if you do attend them make sure there is at least 15 minutes apart from the last meeting. If you hold meetings wear a watch or watch your phone, start and end on time.   Once people learn your meetings start and end on time they will be there promptly.
 
Ron

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Do We Have Time

Nokia Ron | 01 October, 2007 19:23

I don’t know about you, but I never seem to have enough time and I often feel like I am wasting time that I should be doing something. I took a time management course a few years ago and recently revisited the materials and found I had fallen back into my same old bad habits. One habit that clutters your life and makes you feel like you are wasting time is the “I’ll never do” things.
 
The “I’ll never do” things are the little odd jobs like cleaning the garage or basement. At business they may be reading a paper written that was of some interest to you or going through all that old e-mail and sorting it and tossing out what is un-important. The trick to handling these is to just realize you are never ever going to get to them, so just ignore them and do what is most important. Take those hundreds of e-mails that did not require any action and create a dump bin folder and put them there. Wow your in box has 3 or 4 things now, not a hundred; you can do those 3 or 4 things.   If your garage is a mess, either accept it or hire the neighborhood kid to do it. 
 
The nicest thing is you don’t feel like you are being pushed to get things done the pressure is off and you accomplish more. Life is much simpler when you learn to just ignore the work that will never get done.
 
Ron

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