19Oct/100
Getting Your RIM Signing Keys Onto Your Mac
An issue I had was that because you have to push your code up to the device you have to have your signing keys installed. Well I have these on my Windows partition, but not on my Mac side. Knowing it’s possible to move your signing keys from one PC to another, I figured it must be possible to transfer these to my Mac partition. The question I had was, “where do these files go?!”
Well after fiddling around for a while I’ve cracked it.
Right click on the Eclipse.app file and go to “show package contents”
Next navigate into Contents, Mac OS, Applications, BBEclipse, Plugins, net.rim.ejde, vmTools and paste your files in here. Now you can continue to use the same signing keys you paid for originally.
Hope this helps!
19Oct/100
Developing BlackBerry Apps On A Mac Finally Possible?
RIM recently released a plugin that works with Eclipse on the Mac OS. This makes me quite happy, as I love my mac, and would much prefer to do my iPhone and BB dev on one system. I plan on playing around with this for the next few weeks and I’ll let you know my thoughts.
13Oct/100
How to calculate the distance between two lat/lon points on the blackberry
I have posted a code snippet to my snipplr account. Check it out here If you have any recommendations on how to make it faster/more efficient I'd love to hear it.
Yes, I realize that this won't work with j2me, but RIM has implemented some good helper classes to make this calculation much easier.
This calculation uses the Haversine formula.