Category Archives: Rants

BlackBerry Push Service – Fail

This really is depressing. Being Canadian and all I really want to root for the home team. Moreover I hate polluting my blog with complaints about BlackBerry development. Alas, here we go again… Todays topic: BlackBerry Push Service. BlackBerry push can be routed through BlackBerry Internet Service or it can route through a BlackBerry Enterprise [...]

Signing Servers Down Again

It’s 10:00pm EST, Jan. 28th and RIM’s signing servers have been down for the last sixty minutes. This wouldn’t be such an issue if the rest of the BlackBerry development tool suite wasn’t such a steaming pile of crap! Quite literally the only component that works – is the compiler. The simulator doesn’t sim and [...]

Top 5 Dream Jobs

So I’m watching High Fidelity and thought I would make a top 5 list of my own. So top 5 dream jobs: Robot maker Prop maker for the movie industry Google Python developer Bar owner BlackBerry software developer I don’t really want to be a BlackBerry developer but I had a hard time coming up [...]

You know what I’m tired of?

You know what I’m tired of? I’m sick of people in my MSN list having HUGE nick names. I come from a time when ICQ was the messenger and even then it was a cute little gimmick that people familiar with IRC laughed at. Regardless a nick name should be one to three words long [...]