BlackBerry Developer Conference Wrap-Up

The  BlackBerry Developer Conference just ended yesterday afternoon, and I have to say I'm extremely glad that I went. It was an excellent conference all around, even if it was the first one. I learned a ton of useful information about development on the BlackBerry platform, made some good connections, and got a free  BlackBerry Bold!

It'll take a good week or two to finish digesting all the information I learned, review all the conference proceedings, and follow up on various things. However, right now I'm already thinking of a few interesting tidbits that should directly benefit LogicMail:

• The ALX format can let me build a single download for the desktop application loader that can include builds for multiple BlackBerry OS versions.
• The new  Eclipse Plug-In is greatly improved, and I now know how to use it to profile for memory and performance issues.
• They're now supporting a preprocessor in the build tools which will make it much easier to support newer BlackBerry features and devices from a single code base.

Here's the presentation I gave at the conference, and an older presentation I gave about LogicMail itself at the local Linux User's Groups: