My OPL Book has Some Shelf Wear at Amazon

Should I be worried, amazed, or happy that my programming book “Rapid Mobile Enterprise Development for Symbian OS: An Introduction to OPL Application Design and Programming” currently has an Amazon ‘New and Used’ copy available with ‘Brand New, Some shelf wear‘

The OPL Book - Proof Copy Arrives!

One of the things I stumbled over at 3GSM was the proof copy of “Rapid Mobile Enterprise for Symbian OS: An Introduction to OPL Application Design and Programming.” I’m still pretty sure that “The OPL Book” is a bit more descriptive, but I’m pretty sure that I’ll get lots of bonus points for getting every […]

My OPL Programming Book to Be Previewed at 3GSM

It’s finished.
For some time now, I’ve been working on the book you see on the left. There’s a huge impressive title, but I prefer my title… “The OPL Book.” It’s published by Symbian Press and Wiley, who are the same people that do the massivly complicated C++ and Java books. OPL isn’t like that. It’s […]

Vexed UIQ Quick Progress Update

Finally cracked the menu bug - now when you tap the UIQ menu, it actually shows the menu and performs the action. The beta build of this is now in the hads of the playtesters, and hopefully I’ll get their reports back, polish it over the Easter weekend and relase it to the world on […]

Symbian Diaries Back End Changes

After some tinkering over the last 24 hours, the Symbian Diaries system as a whole has had some new featres added. I talk about them on the main site.

Some OPL Notes

But not here - over at the OPL Diary (http://opl.symbiandiaries.com/). One article looks at how OPL for UIQ has been progressing over the last week or two, and the second (written by Steve Litchfield) looks at the conversion process of OPL apps onto UIQ, and some of his thoughts on OPL.
I’ve always hoped that a […]

Event Core for UIQ Released

Just posted the UIQ Event Core up to FreEPOC. It’s an ‘empty’ application for OPL, showing you how to do everythin properly and providing a good place to start OPL coding. And if you just want to see some OPL code doing more than Hello World, open the zip file and read the core.tpl Text […]

Forum Nokia Switched On

Forum Nokia are getting everyone to re-register (or they just want everyone to do their nice survey), so away I go to plough through it and come to the choice of development languages. Someone over there is switched on enough to make sure OPL is there!
You know if Carlsberg made programming lanaguges, they’d probably write […]

OPL & Java Comparison?

Wireless Watch (via The Register) has an interesting quote in an article based around IBM’s Request for Java to be Open Sourced…
But even with these various changes, it remains difficult to get changes implemented through the Java Community Panel and the process has not encouraged the rapid accumulation of applications from small developers as languages […]

Being Evil On The Tube

Viral marketing is alive and well on the Victoria Line! I’ve still got a numbr of the 16mb MMC Demo disks from ETech, which have Vexed and SameGame preinstalled on the (along with the OPL runtime), and I’ve taken to handing them out to complete strangers.
So if you’re on the tube, fiddling with a Series […]

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