On the BlackBerry section of Experts-Exchange, one of the most-read thread these days is "BlackBerry Enterprise Server-Email Not Synching Properly In Inbox." Link below.
Started by NTJOCK, the thread involves two issues. One, that synchro happens too quickly, causing spam to replicate to the BlackBerry which requires a "synch now" to clear it.
The second issue is way more complicated, I promise you that.
But then you hit a rough patch. Say you jes' can't seem to ignite the font exporting process when you try to export a theme.
You see an error code like the one at the top of this post.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
On this blog, the "candle" becomes a workaround or resolution. Similar to that recommended in a newly posted BlackBerry Technical Knowledge Center Support document entitled, "Failed to start font explorting process when trying to export a theme."
There are two possible causes for this. Each has a Resolution (not the New Year's type, but the workaround type.
Linked below, a new BlackBerry Knowledge Base Document offers instructions for working within the BlackBerry Java Development Environment to create an Event within the BlackBerry Calendar application.
This is possible because BlackBerry JDE 4.0 offers the personal digital assistance profile (PDAP) package to provide allow access to the Calendar, Tasks, and Address Book applications on the BlackBerry device.
Included within the net.rim.blackberry.api.pdap package is the BlackBerryEvent interface, This interface defines extended fields in the event, along with the standard fields obtained through the javax.microediition.pim.Event interface.
Want sample code? Turn the page (just thought of that old Bob Seger song as I typed that).
Steve from BlackBerry Cool is from Canada, where folks are at work today.
He writes this post about a place in the U.S. where BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion would be very thankful to find some talent to move up north to Waterloo, Ontario and work for them.
In fact, RIM vp Tom Sanchez will be hosting a reception for high-tech talent on Thursday, November 30 from 5pm-8pm at the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Irving, Texas.
As you can see from this map via our peeps at MapQuest, that's just outside Dallas.
On his anxiousdog blog, blogger anxiousdog (didn't I just say that) tells us how to rip a DVD to an .avi file, and then convert it into a video playable on a BlackBerry Pearl. He's actually done it with a movie called Forget Paris.
In this post, I will tell you what anxious dog did, as well as include a detailed description of the DVD to .avi process necessary as a prelude to BlackBerry media conversion.
First, h anxiousdog used a program called SimpleDivX to rip a DVD and convert it into an avi. He links to the instructions but doesn't actually spell them out. That doesn't mean we won't. In fact, we will.
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the standards and trade association for digital publishing, has just announced a new technical standard for packaging a digital publication, including the contents of the publication, metadata, signatures, encryption, rights and other information into one standard file.
Entitled the Open eBook Publication Structure Container Format (OCF), the new IDPF standard is intended to streamline will allow publishers to release a single standard file into their sales and distribution channels and will also enable publishing for mobile devices.
The most BlackBerry-centric vendor solution to be announced fir OCF is the existing Mobipocket, which is owned by Amazon.com.
Mobipocket Reader / Mobipocket Creator will be the OCF-empowered platform. It claims an Implementation time frame in the first quarter of next year. It is compliant for BlackBerry as well as Windows Mobile, Symbian smartphones, and Palm OS devices, as well as Windows desktops and notebook PCs. as well as desktops and laptops (MS Windows). Product URL:
The platform is intended to give enterprise users access to solutions for extending mobile applications to users without the need for doing this via email.
"Many of our customers want a solution that can decouple wireless email from other wireless applications, while providing the same level of security and control that they trust and rely upon in BlackBerry," RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis noted in a statement released this morning. "BlackBerry Enterprise Server for MDS Applications benefits our enterprise customers as well as the growing community of developers, software vendors, systems integrators and value added resellers that are creating a rich ecosystem of business applications for BlackBerry."
This is the second interview in the BBHub BlackBerry Developer Interview Series. This series will put a face to many of the software programs you know and love. Developers are often power users who have unique perspectives on the industry. Many are entrepreneurs with colorful careers in technology. This series will give you a glimpse into their worlds and their outlook on the future of the BlackBerry.
The second interviewee is Paul Dumais from Idokorro. Idokorro has produced some very popular and quite useful BlackBerry applications including Mobile SSH (this one comes in handy for me quite frequently!), Mobile Desktop, Mobile Admin, and most recently Idokorro's Mobile File Manager. Paul also was a contributor to my book, BlackBerry Hacks.
Paul has agreed to answer questions in the comments of this post, so if something's on your mind, feel free to ask away!
If you are a BlackBerry software developer and think you'd make a good candidate for the interview series, drop me a line at davemabe at gmail dot com.
Dave: Tell us a little about yourself, Paul.
Paul: I'm Paul Dumais and live in Ottawa Canada. I'm the co-founder and VP of Software Development at Idokorro. I'm responsible for the technical and strategic direction of our products, establishing our roadmap and conceiving new products.
Dave: What BlackBerry do you use now and what PDAs have you used in the past?
Paul: Right now I'm using a BlackBerry 8100 Pearl. Personally, I prefer using BlackBerry devices with a full QWERTY keyboard, but the Pearl has such amazing new features that are not available yet on other devices. My first PDA was a Newton, followed by a Palm V which I received at the JavaOne Conference. Palm gave out a Software Development Kit along with the device to encourage people to develop applications for it – which I thought was a brilliant idea.
Are you planning to run additional functionalities through your BlackBerry Enterprise Server?
Can your system handle these extra tasks?
Well, there's a good way to find out.
When you click on the Server Capacity Calculator link I've built into the Read prompt at the bottom of this post, a, well, Server Capacity Calculator will launch in Excel.
The Calculator works when you enter your target processor from a pull-down list and check off the list of applications you intend to run over said Server.
Then, the Calculator will, well, calculate the average processor time and memory use for the deployment you have queried.
I'm getting off on the simplicity of this interface.
Pinstack admin Hayden posted about the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. Create and submit a BlackBerry business application that works on BlackBerry Enterprise Server or on BlackBerry Internet Service.
The judges will be looking at five key areas, usability, quality, innovation, utility, and customer experience.
The prizes include Cingular BlackBerrys or a trip for two to next year's Wireless Enterprise Symposium.
What on earth would anyone want five BlackBerrys for? The ten finalists each get two Cingular BlackBerrys, plus an additional three if you are a grand prize winner. You have to assume the people entering already have at least one.
On his blog, Alex King writes that Daniel Pasco has figured out how to use the BlackBerry 870* series as a Bluetooth modem in Mac OS X.
"I've just tested a development build that allowed me to browse the web and download mail," Alex exclaims. "Awesome! Daniel claims the bounty.
The bounty, incidetally, is $675.
Alex adds that Daniel is hard at work polishing it up and quashing the little quirks that exist in the early dev stages of any product, but it already has been tested and works with the 8700g (T-Mobile) and the 8703e (Sprint and Verizon).
Funny, I always thought Pasco was just a city in Washington State.
Nokia recently released WidSets which seems to be a framework for displaying widgets on your mobile phone. It's kind of like the Dashboard on Mac OS X or KonfabulatorYahoo! Widgets for your PC.
I like this idea. I think we'll see more and more widgets on regular computers and extending them to the mobile arena seems natural.
The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the standards and trade association for digital publishing, has just announced a new technical standard for packaging a digital publication, including the contents of the publication, metadata, signatures, encryption, rights and other information into one standard file. 
This is the second interview in the BBHub BlackBerry Developer Interview Series. This series will put a face to many of the software programs you know and love. Developers are often power users who have unique perspectives on the industry. Many are entrepreneurs with colorful careers in technology. This series will give you a glimpse into their worlds and their outlook on the future of the BlackBerry.
Pinstack admin Hayden posted about the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. Create and submit a BlackBerry business application that works on BlackBerry Enterprise Server or on BlackBerry Internet Service. 
Nokia recently released WidSets which seems to be a framework for displaying widgets on your mobile phone. It's kind of like the Dashboard on Mac OS X or 
