programming with passion

Well, I am in the middle of learning to write my first blackberry application. Since Blackberry uses the Java platform so heavily, I was excited to be able to develop natively on the Mac. Apparently there is no easy way to actually do this. I am used to using Eclipse for my java development so I was excited that Blackberry had an Eclipse plugin. I was very disappointed to learn that this plugin only works on a Windows machine. I believe it is the Simulators that cause the problem. I didn’t want to spend days fighting this issue, so I gave up and installed Eclipse on a Windows 32bit virtual machine. I was quite bummed to have to do this. I don’t understand why they go to so much trouble implementing the JME which is platform neutral, and then totally bomb when it comes to forcing developers to develop on a Windows box. I think it is crucial for them to support more than Windows so they can attract the thousands of iPhone developers that love their Macs (like me). Or maybe they know that if you really want to develop for the blackberry, you will just install Windows. I am looking forward to some Android development…