Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
Should I be worried, amazed, or happy that my programming book “Rapid Mobile Enterprise Development for Symbian OS: An Introduction to OPL Application Design and Programming” currently has an Amazon ‘New and Used’ copy available with ‘Brand New, Some shelf wear‘
One of the things I stumbled over at 3GSM was the proof copy of “Rapid Mobile Enterprise for Symbian OS: An Introduction to OPL Application Design and Programming.” I’m still pretty sure that “The OPL Book” is a bit more descriptive, but I’m pretty sure that I’ll get lots of bonus points for getting every buzzword into the title. Should help in the google juice stakes as well. But the book is here, in my hands, and wow! I don’t remember writing any of this stuff! I hope it’s good. Publication still on course for early March 2005. Hoepfully my
It’s finished. For some time now, I’ve been working on the book you see on the left. There’s a huge impressive title, but I prefer my title… “The OPL Book.” It’s published by Symbian Press and Wiley, who are the same people that do the massivly complicated C++ and Java books. OPL isn’t like that. It’s written to be an introduction to programming, from scratch. Existing programmers can start at chapter three and should devour everything in a day or two. Non programmers should be able to get through it in two weeks (it start off assuming you have absolutley
Finally cracked the menu bug – now when you tap the UIQ menu, it actually shows the menu and performs the action. The beta build of this is now in the hads of the playtesters, and hopefully I’ll get their reports back, polish it over the Easter weekend and relase it to the world on Tuesday. There are still a few things I need to add in… Rescale the maps between the levels that show your progress. Show the number of blocks left on each level to fill in the nasty big white gap (much like the 9210 versions left
After some tinkering over the last 24 hours, the Symbian Diaries system as a whole has had some new featres added. I talk about them on the main site.
But not here – over at the OPL Diary (http://opl.symbiandiaries.com/). One article looks at how OPL for UIQ has been progressing over the last week or two, and the second (written by Steve Litchfield) looks at the conversion process of OPL apps onto UIQ, and some of his thoughts on OPL. I’ve always hoped that a decent release with all the widgets would help OPL – and the initial rush for OPL on UIQ has backed up this thought. Now if only we can get the dialog widgets sorted in Series 60 and we’ve got a great base to really
