Post-Symbian Blog Location

My post-symbian blog is PaulB on Mobile at http://paulbonmobile.wordpress.com/

Moving on from Symbian

I’m moving on from my role as Head of Tools for the Symbian Foundation. I’ve appreciated the opportunity and the experiences with tools, mobile, web and open source. From my start in June 2009, it has been quite an adventure. After having led tools for Wind River, I was ready for a new challenge. Instead [...]

Google I/O: A Wake-Up Call for the Symbian Community

I was at Google I/O last week and was quite impressed with the progress of the Android team and wanted to share some ideas about what the Symbian community can learn. First, some of the highlights: Android Froyo Highlights Speed – JIT generates a 2x-5x speedup Enterprise – Microsoft Exchange now supported Services – Cloud [...]

Stepping Toward Symbian Open Source Tools on Linux and Mac

Linux, Mac, and Windows versions of the GNU compiler, the GDB debugger and the QEMU emulator are now available for Symbian development here. Thanks to CodeSourcery, the world’s leading GNU tools consulting company, for producing these tools. And CodeSourcery is in the process of incorporating the changes into the relevant open source repositories. At this [...]

Symbian Web Tools Beta Available

I’m happy to say that the beta edition of the Symbian Web Tools is now available for download Our goal with this product is to help web developers create applications for the Web Runtime(WRT). The main release criteria was to provide an IDE that had at least feature parity with the alternatives. We believed we [...]

Symbian Tools SIG Proceedings

It’s been a busy two weeks for Symbian and the Tools team.  Last week was the SEE conference as well as several meetings with our London Symbian colleagues.  This week was Qt Developer Days and the Silicon Valley Symbian SIG.  In this blog, I want to give an update on another meeting that took place in [...]

The Term “Widget” Considered Harmful

One of the things about joining a new industry is needing to learn a new set of terminology.  Since joining the mobile industry earlier this year, I’ve been most puzzled by the word “widget”.  This is the story… Introduction Last year, I did a bunch of JavaScript programming.  Widgets were the little graphical pieces, like [...]

Symbian Tools Update

Hello, I’m Paul Beusterien and I joined the Symbian Foundation in June to lead the developer tools strategy and implementation.   After three months of diving into the Symbian and the mobile world, I’d like to use this blog to share my evolving thoughts about mobile developer tools. Symbian Developer Tools Mission Provide good, usable tools [...]