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Wikipedia App now in BlackBerry App World
It took longer than expected because of conferences, vacation and other distractions, but the HTML5/PhoneGap-based we mentioned earlier is now available for the PlayBook. This is the official client to Wikipedia from the Wikimedia foundation. Go visit AppWorld and download … Continue reading
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JsonCpp Ported
New repository available in our GitHub organization: a port of JsonCpp, the C++ JSON parser – website, documentation. The repo is at JsonCpp, courtesy of John Hodgson. That makes 48 public repositories at GitHub. And counting…
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Initial port of OpenCV
Cliff has pushed out a first cut at a port of OpenCV, the Open Computer Vision Library. Our intention is to complete the port but we are pushing it out now to help other people interested in the library. If … Continue reading
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Update to BlackBerry App World Vendor Agreement
The content below was posted in our forum on General Open Source Topics. As promised, we have published a small revision to the AppWorld Vendor Agreement. The new document is available here; the only changes are in section 10(k). I talked with … Continue reading
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Earlier Open Source Posts
One of the uses of OpenBBNews is as a record of RIM’s Open Source activity but as such it lacks some early events because our first post was in mid-November 2011. To fix this shortcoming, I’ve created a few posts … Continue reading
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BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha in Orlando
RIM has announced that attendees to BlackBerry 10 Jam will be receiving a limited edition developer prototype device – the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha™. Alex Kinsella makes it very clear that this is not the final hardware or OS for BlackBerry 10. … Continue reading
Open Source at GDC 2012
This week is the Games Developer Conference at the Moscone Center, in San Francisco. RIM is a sponsor, has a booth at the Expo and has several sessions. Our Open Source projects are a key part of the sessions. Some … Continue reading
Latest BlackBerry NFC sample applications
Martin Woolley and John Murray from our Developer Relations team have been hard at work creating sample applications that illustrate the use of the BlackBerry NFC APIs. Most of these samples are now available at GitHub; the latest addition is … Continue reading
Contributions to Apache
The Apache Software Foundation uses Contribution Agreements to “clearly define the terms under which intellectual property has been contributed to the ASF”. There are two variants of the CLA, the ICLA for individuals, and the CCLA for corporations. RIM recently … Continue reading
Community Project on Python on the PlayBook
QNX’s support of POSIX is proving to be really helpful in porting functionality to the PlayBook (and later BBX). One area in point is Python (wikipedia, home site) . PlayBook 2.0 already includes the Python 3.2 runtime but Peter Hansen has started an … Continue reading
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