Getting down to business

Getting down to business

It has been about a week since I birthed this idea of developing convenience software for our BlackBerrys. I have been scouring through documents and running samples and reading on how BlackBerry Development works and now I realize that if I am going to make anything of this project, I have to simply buckle down […]

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Now I remember why I ran away from JAVA programming the first time…..

Now I remember why I ran away from JAVA programming the first time…..

Oh boy, I tell you, JAVA programming is absolutely fine, but the headache of setting up for my blackberry program reminds me why I ran away from JAVA programming the first time round. With MS programming, slip in the VS studio CD, click, click installs your prerequisites, installs the VS IDE and we are good […]

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LESSON NUMBER 1:THE BLACKBERRY RUNS ON JAVA

LESSON NUMBER 1:THE BLACKBERRY RUNS ON JAVA

This may seem like a very odd title to my first official BlackBerry development blog, but to anyone who has thought about writing BlackBerry Applications, the first steps may seem very daunting. The one thing you have to remember is that the BlackBerry runs on Java and therefore will run Java applications.
Being a .NET developer, […]

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First Steps in Blackberry development

First Steps in Blackberry development

One of the things I have always wanted to do was get into BlackBerry Application Development. I have never thought about writing commercially, but more so about writing conveniently. This is to say that I love my BlackBerry, as I am sure you do to, and often I would find myself thinking: “I wish I […]

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What to do with those .iso files

When downloading software online, sometimes we are asked to download an image file. This is a file that will have a .iso or .img extension. An image file is basically an image of a CD or DVD or some other media type. If you are using windows, this file cannot be used directly as is […]

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How to use Gmail’s Filters and Label

To save us from “inbox stress” Gmail introduces a very effective way of organizing out inbox into filters. Unfortunately it is not a very intuitive system and I get a lot of questions about how to effectively use them. The two most common questions being:

I have created the labels, now how do I get my […]

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10 Killer Firefox Extensions That You Probably Don’t Know About

A fellow blogger over at WebUpon, did a great job of compiling some of the coolest Firefox extensions out there today.

The best Firefox Extensions out there, right here.
This isn’t the usual list of extensions that everyone is used to using, but 10 add-ons that many may not know about, but can be very useful for […]

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Today’s Dilbert Moment - The Chasing Down the Project Schedule..

I felt a tad bit embarrassed about writing about this one, but oh what the heck…….
We are still on the project plan…..
here is a message from the Architect to the Project Manager, who still hasn’t attended a meeting…

The Migration team would like to set a deadline for ourselves for moving the New Business application […]

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Today’s Dilbert Moment - The Secure Server..

Panic and pandemonium as one of the stored procedures continuously returned a blank file all morning…..everyone was sweating, running around, panicking, I almost thought I saw sirens and red lights going off. Then ahhhhh…phew!!! OK, we fixed it……….3 hours later i am walking passed the DB managers Desk, and I hear him explaining to someone […]

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Today’s Dilbert Moment - The Missing Project Schedule..

So I was in a meeting. 5 developers sitting around a table, talking about what tasks they have and when they expect to have them done……Apparently we have a PM, Jose who has never been to any meeting..
Then the chief architect says the most interesting thing..
“I got Jose to draw up a project schedule for […]

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