Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Leveraging Blackberries with Open Source

Warning: May be Habbit Forming.

If you work in an open source software shop, have people who carry Blackberries activated on your company Blackberry Enterprise Server you want to push data to you should have a look at Jan-Piet Mens' Real-World Blackberry MDS Push Applications: an Extensible Framework. This is one of the best organized and presented piece of open development I've seen for some time. His entire blog, or at least as much as I've read, is all like that. Standing on Jan-Piet's shoulders I was able to go from a standing start to pushing Browser-Message data in the morning, and had extended the frame work to include Browser-Channel data in the afternoon.

If you don't currently have a Blackberry Enterprise Server but would like to use MDS Push applications there are ways without going totally over to the dark side. But I'll save those for latter.

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