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Building the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks Open Source Framework on Your Own
Guest post from Nukul – Ed. We’ve received a lot of requests from developers to be able to build BlackBerry® 10 WebWorks™ directly from GitHub. Before I talk about how to take advantage of this, I...
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BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha A and B – What Developers Need To Know
I have always found hardware specs pretty fascinating, so if you are like me, you will be very interested in this blog post. Based on some questions that developers have asked regarding differences...
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UCOSP Midterm Update
It’s been just over a month since the beginning of the Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Project (UCOSP) project. We’re at the midterm point now, and it’s clear that we’re getting the hang of this...
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WebWorks Ant Build Script
There are many ways to build BlackBerry WebWorks applications, like the Ripple Emulator, the BlackBerry Graphical Aid, or the command line. Each one has some good use cases, and yet I think there’s...
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UCOSP End of Term Results Part 1
How fast the time flies. It feels like the kickoff sprint for the UCOSP term was just last week, but the two months have passed already. The students have all finished their contributions for this...
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UCOSP End of Term Results Part 2
Part one of our end-of-term blog posts was dedicated to some tips on using bbUI.js. For this post, let’s hear from John Yan of UBC, who worked on BlackBerry WebWorks Native Extensions and also learned...
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Extensions for BlackBerry WebWorks
In the interest of full disclosure, I admit that the BlackBerry 10 WebWorks extensions scared me a little when I first looked at them. It’s been a long time since I really wrote C++ code. We won’t...
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UCOSP Kickoff Sprint at Facebook
It’s been a few weeks since I met the BlackBerry Team for this term’s UCOSP program, but between the BlackBerry 10 Launch and the excitement around BlackBerry Jam Europe, it’s been a busy time on the...
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Sublime BlackBerry 10 WebWorks Development
At the risk of broaching a topic that is potentially more volatile than politics, religion, or semi-colons in JavaScript, let’s talk a little bit about development environments for BlackBerry 10...
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Prevent Sleep for WebWorks Apps
(Photo credit to Alan L, and his cat) When your content is so riveting that your users can’t take their eyes off the screen, the last thing you want is the screen dimming and breaking that immersion....
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UCOSP Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects 2013 Midterm Update
Our open source projects with university students from across Canada have been going superbly this term with many excellent contributions to the BlackBerry Open Source community. This is our second...
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BlackBerry 10 WebWorks Barcode Scanner by UCOSP Students
Perhaps the largest single contribution from UCOSP students was recently pushed to our WebWorks-Community-APIs repository: A Barcode Scanning extension for BlackBerry 10 WebWorks. Two students started...
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Vibration and Barcode Extension details, by UCOSP student developer
Continuing the last UCOSP posting, where we talked about the release of the Barcode Scanning Extension for BlackBerry 10 WebWorks, we have some thoughts from another student regarding development of...
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Contribute to BlackBerry Open Source
Have you been by our GitHub repositories lately? We’re now hosting 93 repositories, including over 400 samples. Many of these have been created by developers here at BlackBerry, but there have been...
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UCOSP Final – School’s Out For Summer!
Well, school is done for most of our UCOSP participants, most of who were in their final year of university. Of course the time for learning never stops in this industry, which is why I love it so...
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Extended Search Integration in WebWorks
A couple weeks back, my friend Paul Bernhardt posted a sample that showed how to integrate your Cascades app into Extended Search. This a cool thing that I imagine many apps could be using – and it’s...
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Check Out Our WebWorks Community APIs
You may not be aware, but we have a repository with several open source extensions for WebWorks app development. These have been contributed by a mix of BlackBerry staff, students, and community...
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Advanced CSS with LESS and SASS
I thought about opening this blog post with a really terrible journalistic pun like: “It’s time to do more with LESS, and put a little SASS in your CSS.” But, of course I wouldn’t do that to you – I’m...
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UCOSP Fall 2013 Kickoff Sprint
We’re back with the Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP) program again this Fall, and the kickoff sprint was recently held in Toronto. It was a great weekend, and I’m very excited for...
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Coding Open Source with Students from Across Canada
This past weekend I participated in the kickoff sprint for a truly remarkable program: The “Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects”, or UCOSP. It’s a program offered by Canadian universities,...
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