Hello, BlackBerry

Today, I set up my BlackBerry development environment. To do this, I installed version 4.2.1 of the JDE which came highly recommended. From there, this Hello World tutorial was dead simple. However, there are lots of other fun things to do with the BlackBerry, like connecting to the Internet, that are not so simple. These things require MDS. It took a small village, but I was ultimately able to connect the simulator to the web. To do this, I installed the JDE Component Package 4.6. This sounds relatively simple, but at times during the process I found myself tearing up. I was eventually able to get ahold of myself, and my simulator connects to the web. Tomorrow I will do a Charlie Rose app for BlackBerry and post the results.

Here are two excellent guides to you help build your app:

BlackBerry_Application_Developer_Guide_Volume_1
BlackBerry_Application_Developer_Guide_Volume_2