Author Archives: pelegri

The IETF describes the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework in RFC 6749 as follows: (The framework) … enables a third-party application to obtain limited access to an HTTP service, either on behalf of a resource owner by orchestrating an approval interaction between … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago we launched a new YouTube channel: BlackBerryDev.  The videos cover a range of technical topics, from know-how to demos, and also cover some developer-related events.  Some examples include: Using Cascades Exporter Intro to bbUI.js A Native … Continue reading →

The UCSOP program is a nation-wide program in Canada targeted at university students in their last year working on a capstone project that emphasizes distributed teams and leverages Open Source.  The program has grown over the years and this year … Continue reading →

One of the new repositories we announced during BlackBerry Jam America is jQueryMobile-BB10-Theme. jQueryMobile is a unified HTML5-based cross-platform mobile framework that supports all popular mobile platforms, including the java-based BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry PlayBook.  This new theme adds support for … Continue reading →

RIM just submitted a proposal to contribute Ripple to Apache Software Foundation. Dan mailed the proposal to the Incubator General Mailing List and Gord hosted the formal proposal (at GitHub, of course :)). The project will follow the ASF Incubator Process.  The ASF champion … Continue reading →

I want to do a pass through all the BlackBerry Jam sessions, and I think some others may want to do the same, so I extracted all the links from the catalog.  I’ll add the links to Slides as I … Continue reading →

We now have 42 signatories listed in our official page.   The pace has been picking up; looking forward to break into 50 soon. Basic information on contributions at howToContribute (which, by the way, needs a cleanup pass…).

We have updated our WebKit-PlayBook repository to include the version of WebKit used in BlackBerry PlayBook 2.1, released today. Following our convention, we created a new branch: playbook-2.1.0, and we also made it the new default branch.

We just published a new repository: WebKit-BB10 is a sibling to WebKit-PlayBook and WebKit-Smartphone and contains the sources for WebKit that were used in the beta 3, aka 10_0_09, release of BlackBerry 10.  This was the release used last week … Continue reading →

Just in time for BlackBerry Jam America, Genevieve published a new HTML5-based sample: a reinterpretation of the classic game on the Java-based BlackBerry smartphones.  This version uses modern HTML, including CSS3. The game was demoed in JAM27:  Performance and Debugging for … Continue reading →