Re:BlackBerry loses $423M in last quarter as revenue plunges
by EC1 on Friday March 28, 2014 @03:36PM
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Kid, I'm not bullshitting. Believe what you want. It's a fucking awful experience.
Re:BlackBerry loses $423M in last quarter as revenue plunges
by artmageddon on Friday March 28, 2014 @04:23PM
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Just curious, why are you using such a dev environment like the one you describe for writing BlackBerry apps? Why can't you get a more up-to-date setup? I can't see any reason to develop in WinXP anymore.
Re:BlackBerry loses $423M in last quarter as revenue plunges
by EC1 on Friday March 28, 2014 @04:48PM
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Believe me, I can't see any either. They are company issued laptops that need to follow certain security procedures. I brought in my mac and ported my code, had like a week of GREAT development before 2 "officials" from the information security team demanded I delete any and all code in front of them. You are absolutely not allowed to use anything beyond the company hardware and software, and I got the short end of the stick as all the good machines have already been "leased" for other projects.
If there is a god he will deliver me from this place.
Re:BlackBerry loses $423M in last quarter as revenue plunges
by artmageddon on Saturday March 29, 2014 @12:39PM
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Yeah, I think the problem is the place you work with, not so much BlackBerry development itself. Though I don't blame you for having a tainted view of it because of these kind of asinine policies as a result.
I've developed native apps for BB10. The tooling is decent. It's a bit heavy since it's based on Eclipse but I had no problems with it. You can also use QtCreator with BlackBerry 10, but I've never tried it. You will mostly use Qt-based APIs anyway in your app, so there's no issue with support. The documentation for BB10 Cascades APIs is very good. There are also lots of official and community submitted samples on Github. For questions I've always used their developer forums which were active.