Category: Mobile Computing

My “OPL Wiki” Entry

Rafe has set up an OPL Wiki (an editable by everyone type of website) that is going to be used as the central resource for OPL Documentation. One page is a ‘personal page‘ about me, and I thought what I wrote there should be posted here as well.

Nice Seminars

Here’s part three of the trip to Nice. It’s reprinted from Your Symbian, where I write a regular column and feature articles. Well worth a read to keep up to date with the Symbian World. Anyway, this part is the seminars about Series 60.

It’s All Gone a Bit Quiet?

No, not really, just not been posting here, or on the boards. A few nice things are coming to the boil in the background. OPL first, and it finnally looks like there is a clear path forward. It all started with this rant from Russ Beattie on his Blog – credit him for kicking of the new thoughts on OPL I’ll be posting in the next day or so. OPL’s not dead, it might even have menu’s running in the private distro I’m testing right now. I’m also planning (with Rafe and Jordan) to attend the Nokia Series 60 Awards

Symbian.Developer.Com

I’ve never hidden my thoughts on the situation for Developers using the Symbian OS. Looking at the website offerings from PalmSource and Microsoft’s Pocket PC, they offer easy paths in getting started on their systems, links to tools, papers, example codes and everything else you’d expect.

Introducing “This Is Mobile”

So here’s a little thing that Vikki and I have been working on. This Is Mobile is a news site that will look at PDA’s and Smartphones (so all the Microsoft, Palm, Symbian, Linux, Java and other devices that are ‘portable,’ but not laptops, okay?). Rather than re-write every single press release that comes out, TIM (we even have a nice abbreviation for the site) will link to the original news story. And while we’ll carry editorial at some point, the majority of that will be left to Your Symbian, All About Symbian and Mobitopia. TIM itself is not just