After last year’s Symbian Smartphone show I commented that the UIQ 3.x UI Designer would become part of the Carbide.c++ beta around January.
Nokia has now released their release candidate 1 for Carbide.c++ 1.3. This Beta-release is the first one that contains UI-designer with support for UIQ applications. It can be downloaded from http://groups.google.com/group/carbidecpp-beta after you […]

Following on from my previous post on Mobile Applications and Web Services, I thought I’d post some more tips that might be useful to Symbian, Java ME and Windows Mobile developers.
What if you can’t get the gSOAP libraries working against your web services nor use the S60 Nokia WSDL wizard and associated large XmlDataBinding.sis? For example, it’s my […]

I seem spend a disproportionate amount of time waiting for builds - especially when I tend to be only updating one source file at a time. In my case it’s currently Carbide.c++ / S60 SDK builds but what I am about to say is probably equally as applicable to JAVA ME or other build environments.
I […]

There’s a new interesting podcast on Small Memory Software at Software Engineering Radio…
"In this Episode we’re discussing patterns for small memory software with the authors of the like-named book by Charles Weir and James Noble. We look at various aspects of the small memory problem: How can you manage memory use across a whole system? What […]

I recently commented on how Symbian libraries are starting to appear. SDL is a new Symbian multimedia library that provides low level access to audio, keyboard, 3D hardware via OpenGL and a 2D frame buffer.
SDL is particularly useful for cross platform development…
"SDL supports Linux, Windows, Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, […]

Nokia has a new useful Carbide.c++ FAQ on Nokia Forum.
The FAQ mentions that there’s special upgrade pricing (approximately half price) if you are moving from CodeWarrior. Tip: What it doesn’t say is that this is only for recent CodeWarrior purchases - so if you have recently purchased (in the last 18 months) then get your […]

There are so many developer competitions on at the moment. As well as the high profile Android Challenge there’s also UIQ’s Open, BT’s Wi-Fi Challenge and Nokia’s Mobile Rules.
One you may not of heard of is the Adobe/Playyoo contest geared towards Flash Lite game developers.