BlackBerry Programming

QNX’s Reverse Takeover of RIM

Eric Giguere — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:55:14 +0000

Remember that I do not speak for Google. Everything I say here is my own personal opinion and conjecture.

As a resident of Waterloo and a graduate of the University of Waterloo, I know many people in this community… Read the rest

BlackBerry Apps Will Run On The BlackPad

Eric Giguere — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:41:39 +0000

There is a lot of speculation in the press these days over next week’s rumored launch of the BlackPad tablet at the BlackBerry developer conference. There seems to be a lot of hang wringing over the fact that the… Read the rest

Windows 7 and the BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse

Eric Giguere — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:44:23 +0000

Version 1.1 of the BlackBerry JDE Plug-in for Eclipse runs quite well on Windows 7 as long as you install the right things in the right order:

32-bit JDK 1.6.x — Start by installing the 32-bit version of

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Runtime String to Long Conversion For Hashing

Eric Giguere — Wed, 12 May 2010 18:33:16 +0000

BlackBerry programming certainly has its peculiarities, and of them is the way you generate hash keys using a menu item in the Java Development Environment. If you want to persist an object, for example, you’ll need to generate a… Read the rest

BlackBerry Object Persistence

Eric Giguere — Sat, 08 May 2010 12:39:52 +0000

The BlackBerry has a simple data persistence model loosely based on Java serialization. You don’t read or write data explicitly, what you do is store it in Java objects and pass those directly to the persistence APIs for storage.… Read the rest

Java Serialization

Eric Giguere — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:53:21 +0000

Java 1.1 introduced the concept of serialization and deserialization to automatically store and retrieve arbitrary sets of Java objects. See The Wonders of Java Serialization for a good introduction. Essentially, serialization uses the Java reflection APIs to figure out… Read the rest