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Setting up the BlackBerry RIM Development Tools

Some development platforms lack documentation, others have an overwhelming amount of documentation to sift through. Though I’m not complaining, BlackBerryRIM falls in that latter case so I’m sharing this quick “setup” guide in as few lines as possible for a Mac/Windows environment (sort of, I used Parallels because of the lack in Mac support right now).

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HTML/CSS/JavaScript mobile development platforms

Web development and mobile development seem to compliment each other well. We see proof of this in recent native smartphone application development platforms from Palm webOS, Rhomobile, Appcelerator Titanium, and Nokia Ovi. When developing for the Web we use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (HCJ) plus some server-side component, or ideally just an API service that a web page can hit via AJAX. HCJ is the most popular set of programming technologies among developers, we all know it or at least should know it. Adding an efficient and fun development platform/process to it really makes the case for investing in one of these young HCJ development platforms. Writing and maintaining one set of code is a huge factor to consider for cutting down development costs. Smaller companies (early adopters) can really benefit from this because chances are they already have experienced in-house HCJ developers. HCJ is a true unifier not only as a commonality among developers but as a way to deploy thin client apps on multiple platforms.

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