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Blackberry preferred development platform is Windows

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 [...]

parsing xml using C++ on iPhone

I am trying to import an X3d file into my iPhone application. I could use the NSXMLParser to do this, but I want to write as much of the application logic in C++ as possible. The reason I want to do this is that I would like to be able to port this application to [...]

code sign error The identity doesn’t match any valid certificate

I am currently going through some tutorials for the SIO2 game engine I am currently evaluating.  I was able to run the code just fine on my iPhone simulator.  When I went to deploy this tutorial to my iPhone device, I got a “Code Sign error: The identity ‘iPhone Developer: Romain Marucchi-Foino (VC824XU999)’ doesn’t match [...]

Windows Mobile 6 Signed Cab displaying “Program is from an unknown publisher”

UPDATE:  Apparently, there is a different technology than Authenticode that I should be using for Windows Mobile. After signing the EXE and the CAB file, this worked just fine on Windows Mobile 5.  When testing on Windows Mobile 6, I got the following error: “program is from an unknown publisher”.  Not only must the EXE and [...]

Windows Mobile application signing

UPDATE:  Apparently, there is a different technology than Authenticode that I should be using for Windows Mobile. Most of the documentation to sign code for the Windows Mobile device assumes you want to do it all through the Visual Studio enviornment.  Well I don’t.  Here is what you need to do to get your application [...]

Windows Mobile i18n fun

Looks like I’ll be doing some Windows Mobile development again since it is going to pay the bills for a bit.  Working with CloudSync on their GPS Logging utility.  The devices basically log the GPS data at 5 second intervals.  This data is then sent in batch to the servers for further processing. The issue [...]

Objective-C

Here are some interesting things I learned today about the differences between java/C# and Objective-C.  Also how to play a sound on your iPhone. Calling Methods This was the very first thing that jumped out at me when I started using Objective-C.  To call a method, you use the following syntax: [object message:param1 namedParam2:param2 namedParam3:param3]; [...]