1. Nokia Betalabs just announced yesterday, the availability of Swype Beta for Symbian^1. 2. While many people are excited about it, I cant help myself to be a little bit of “WTF”?… 3. I mean, come on!… Swype is not better than the existing stock qwerty in Symbian^1! And in some ways, as far as I can see, it sucks…! 4. While swiping ...

1. From April to September 2010 (that is around 5 months), it was the most painful waiting period in my life! Blame Nokia for that 2. The Nokia N8 is to be blamed for all these. The most eagerly anticipated Nokia/Symbian release in recent history. 3. I ve talked many times about the N8 and the looong waiting period should ...

Now that the Bug Squad has found around 250 bugs, we thought that it was about time to start looking into sorting what of the bugs where really impacting the platform. Hence, we decided to start triaging them. We agreed that we would run triaging sessions on a Thursday, every 4 weeks – hence the name Triage [...]

Last weeks post looked at how to market your open source project or package looking into the question what marketing is anyway, finding out who your audience is and understanding your own and your audiences needs. This is necessary groundwork … Continue reading →

First, a few words about PySide. It allows developers to call Qt APIs using Python. Sound interesting? It should, especially for those who are not to keen on programming in C++. A great many features are available, even Qt Mobility APIs if you use PySide Mobility. It turns out that PySide and the Qt Simulator get [...] Related posts:

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The folks at Symban Foundation are calling for Python enthusiastics at SEE 2010! If there are enough number of people expressing interest in Python, there might be a Python workshop or BOF session at SEE this time. I’m polling for interest in attending a Birds-of-a-feather session or workshop on Python on Symbian (PyS60) at SEE. As you may know, we’ll [...] Related posts:

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Unfortunately, our friends at Audible have decided to ignore any Symbian releases beyond s60 3rd edition. I’ve battled with the Audible software and here is a few ways to get it working: Just install the s60 3rd edition app I got this working pretty well to start with. I downloaded the app (which was a [...]

1. Foursquare. The latest craze in the social networking services. 2. They have released official apps for iOS, Android and Blackberry but they never support Symbian. This is where something needs to be done. 3. Enter ThinkChange’s Sym4Square or Symbian FourSquare. A free application designed and developed by the same people who brought us AutoInstaller, and a few other ...

1. Cloud synching is the future. More and more services offer cloud synching to backup, sync and feel safe without worrying many things. 2. Enter SugarSync. A cloud synching service with a comprehensive mobile support. It announced the availability of it’s free Symbian S60 5th Edition (Symbian^1) app. This makes it the most complete cloud synching service with support for ...

At OSCON and the Community Leadership Summit the question how you get noticed as an open source project (or more generally as a a community) was covered in a number of discussions and talks. A really good talk was Josh … Continue reading →

We (the Symbian Foundation) proposed a new project – Tools for Mobile Web. We offer our code as a basis for this new Eclipse project and now that we released version 1.0 of our product we would like to focus on this contribution. I would like to better explain what we would like to see [...]

Reposted from Tales of The Community A key success factor to “getting your message heard” is understanding who you are targeting and how to reach them. I wanted to share with you my experiences of reaching for community members to join the BugSquad and what I discovered about our communication channels by doing so. When [...]

A key success factor to “getting your message heard” is understanding who you are targeting and how to reach them. I wanted to share with you my experiences of reaching for community members to join the BugSquad and what I … Continue reading →

A common problem people face when trying to address a community is that of noise. We live in an incredibly noisy environment, with people drowning in information and ever shrinking attention spans. So how do you successfully spread your message? … Continue reading →

As mentioned earlier, I was at the CLS 2010 in Oregon. I learned and awful lot, made many connections and came away with many ideas. It will take some time to go through it all, make sense of it and … Continue reading →

Over the last two months, we have been working with developers from the kernelhwsrv, mds and musicplayer packages to improve the performance of MTP synchronisation. Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) is a standard originally developed by Microsoft that allows users to transfer music files (in our case from the PC to a Symbian device). The music [...]

Last year when the Symbian Foundation was still being set up, we thought it would be beneficial to provide a physical meeting place for the sizable Symbian community in London. We decided to call this the Symbian Stammtisch, inspired by … Continue reading →

I integrated a second contribution from NTT DOCOMO last week to fix a bug in one of the Symbian SQL test harnesses. The bug (bug 3170) concerned the handling of end-of-line characters in an input file for the t_sqlperformance4 test. The input file contained a sequence of SQL statements executed during a Music Player application [...]

Just a very brief post to let you know that I will be at the Community Leadership Summit in Portland, Oregon this coming weekend. The list of attendees looks quite impressive. I have never been and am really looking forward … Continue reading →

Since we started the BugSquad, we had many people come and go from the mailing list, some of them show to the IRC sessions… however most of the ones that do contribute at least once (raising or fixing bugs) always seem to stick around. It is my experience that making an extra effort to support [...]