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Advanced CSS with LESS and SASS
I thought about opening this blog post with a really terrible journalistic pun like: “It’s time to do more with LESS, and put a little SASS in your CSS.” But, of course I wouldn’t do that to you – I’m...
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UCOSP Fall 2013 Kickoff Sprint
We’re back with the Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP) program again this Fall, and the kickoff sprint was recently held in Toronto. It was a great weekend, and I’m very excited for...
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UCOSP 2013 Wrap Up and Looking Ahead
Photo by Mike Baird used under Creative Commons This past fall the BlackBerry WebWorks community worked with the UCOSP program again, which engages four students from different universities in Canada...
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Event Recap: Facebook Open Academy Sprint
GitHub co-founder Scott Chacon I’ve just returned from the Facebook Open Academy sprint weekend, held at Facebook Headquarters in Palo Alto, California. Open Academy is a initiative sponsored by...
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Building Cordova Plugins for BlackBerry 10 on Mac
For Mac users looking to get into developing WebWorks 2.0 and Cordova plugins for BlackBerry 10, this guide written by one of our students from the UCOSP program will get you started. Although this...
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Building Cordova Plugins for BlackBerry 10 on Linux
This is the second in our three-part series on building plugins with the Gold release of WebWorks 2.0 SDK. In case you missed it, check out “Building Cordova Plugins for BlackBerry 10 on Mac.” The...
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Building Cordova Plugins for BlackBerry 10 on Windows
Welcome to the third installment in our series on building Cordova plugins for BlackBerry 10. Last week we covered Mac and Linux. Today’s post is for our Windows developers and will detail steps for...
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Power your WebWorks Extension with Cordova
Now that WebWorks 2.0 is powered by Cordova, it’s time to convert our extensions from the previous WebWorks 1.0 format to the new Cordova and WebWorks 2.0 format. This conversion process is necessary...
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Building and Porting WebWorks Plugins with the Open Academy
This past term with the Open Academy project was quite productive. Many of you will be familiar with the program and its Canadian University version called UCOSP. If not, the program invites upper...
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WebWorks Gamepad API thanks to our friend Peardox
I’m very pleased to announce the release of a Gamepad API for WebWorks applications. Not only is this a cool API that will open up new capabilities for WebWorks apps and games, but it was done in...
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Developing Headless Applications with WebWorks
A Headless application is native code that can run without any UI, with minimal memory and CPU cycles. However, developing a WebWorks application that works together with a headless service is...
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Google Analytics in WebWorks
Our first ever summer term with the Canadian University program called UCOSP, has just finished. This is the program where upper year university students contribute to open source projects for a term...
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Wrapup: Fall 2014 UCOSP Sprint
The BlackBerry team at work Back in mid-September we met in Toronto again at Mozilla’s very nice office, to kick off a new term of UCOSP. With six students from four universities and one volunteer from...
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Facebook Connect for WebWorks
Our third UCOSP project this summer was the Facebook Connect plugin. Like our other project, the Google Analytics plugin, the Facebook Connect plugin allows interaction with a 3rd party web service,...
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AudioMetaData WebWorks Plug-in
This past fall we worked with the UCOSP program again, with a kickoff sprint back in September, and several students joined us to work on WebWorks plugins for the term. Many of the students worked on...
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Three plugins updated by UCOSP student
This is the second follow-up post from the UCOSP program this past fall. Besides creating new WebWorks plugins, some of our work has been to maintain the ones we have built in previous terms. Tim,...
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SystemDialog for WebWorks with Signals and Slots
This is the final follow-up post from the UCOSP program this past fall. In the previous posts, we talked about the work we did on the new AudioMetaData plugin, updates to some existing plugins, and...
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Connecting to Couchbase with PouchDB
Couchbase Mobile is a NoSQL distributed database available under the Apache 2 open source license, and commercially supported through the Couchbase Company. NoSQL usage in the enterprise is on the...
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Listening to MediaKeys in WebWorks
Listening to the hardware media keys in a WebWorks application is a cool ability that I didn’t know how to make happen until fairly recently. Through the work of students in the program over the last...
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Cordova 5.x for BlackBerry 10
Cordova 5.x The Apache Cordova platform was recently updated to 5.0, and the current edition is 5.3.1 as I’m writing. If you haven’t heard of Cordova before, you likely know of BlackBerry WebWorks and...
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