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Now these guys take pride in their work

rnickel — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:35:15 +0000

Just look at this image. It’s a bottle of whiskey. That is one classy piece of glass. The wax stamp puts it over the top in my opinion. Classic.

Been running the latest version of OS X…

rnickel — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:08:24 +0000

And although I understand what they’re trying to do, I’m not too sure I like it. My biggest pet peeve currently is the fact that by default ctrl+ left and ctrl + right will force you to jump between spaces… I’m a big proponent of keyboard shortcuts, and jumping between words is one of my... Read more »

Introducing Peak. A BaseCamp app for BlackBerry

rnickel — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:33:03 +0000

Keep track of your 37Signals BaseCamp projects while on the go with Peak on your BlackBerry. Manage your to-do lists, milestones, messages and even get an outline of all tasks assigned to you!

Check out the official Peak page for more information.

Updated RIM’s PillButtonField to allow for custom themes

rnickel — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 05:00:32 +0000

Lately I’ve been delving into the Advanced UI fields that RIM has published. While perusing their PillButtonField, I noticed that, unlike the EmbossedButtonField, you are unable to change any of the colours associated with each field.

I have taken it upon myself to change this. Check my snipplr account for the code.

http://snipplr.com/view/47427/updated-pillbuttonfield-in-rims-advanced-ui-examples/

A quick note for BlackBerry developers

rnickel — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:58:23 +0000

When you’re developing for the BlackBerry, you may have to do a lot of hard resets. This involves pulling the battery and replacing it.

Now on most BB devices this is fine, however I’ve come to notice that on the Torch, removing the backplate can be quite a hassle!

My new favourite BB keyboard shortcut is now:

ALT+RIGHT SHIFT+DEL

Holding that key combination for 2-3 seconds will force your BlackBerry to restart. Kind of like a ctrl+alt+delete on your windows box.

Getting Your RIM Signing Keys Onto Your Mac

rnickel — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:21:03 +0000

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!

Developing BlackBerry Apps On A Mac Finally Possible?

rnickel — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:12:30 +0000

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... Read more »

How to calculate the distance between two lat/lon points on the blackberry

rnickel — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:25:09 +0000

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.

Latest app, FlexTi.me ready for Beta play

rnickel — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:18:54 +0000

Well, I’ve finally reached the Beta phase for my latest project FlexTi.me.

FlexTi.me, take your time back

We created this system because we got tired of having to maintain our projects in a million different places. Spreadsheets, bug lists, project management lists, to-do lists. Needless to say, this got confusing, fast. Why not get all of these items into one place where everyone can interact with it? Hence, FlexTi.me.

At it’s basic level, FlexTi.me allows you to manage and track your projects. It allows you to create task lists, milestones, and to-do items. You can assign to-dos’ to different users in your account. The system will keep everyone abreast of the latest developments by sending timely emails to everyone associated to different tasks.

Now, the place where FlexTi.me really excels is in the transparency it gives your clients. No longer will you be inundated with requests from your clients asking for updates to different projects. They can now log into their accounts and see exactly where everything is for themselves! A HUGE time saver for any company!

They can also log into their account and submit requests to you, allowing you to assign those items to different employees, and to toss that request into a to-do list. Requests from your clients will no longer get lost in the endless shuffle of emails.

If you’re interested in signing up for the beta, then head over to http://www.flexti.me/Users/create to sign up! Currently the service is free, and you can have as many clients/projects/users as you want.

Well, I finally reached Beta s…

rnickel — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:12:55 +0000

Well, I finally reached Beta stage of my latest #BlackBerry #app, Toller! If you’re interested in beta testing head to http://tiny.cc/toller