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Nokia S60 Tech Day Conference Analysis

Categories: Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, November 26th, 2006 at 2:11 AM

The rest of the first and the complete second days were the tech
tracks. They offered a basic and advanced track. I took the basic
track, never having had touched any sort of mobile development. After a
drawn out process of everyone trying to install the development
environment, SDKs, etc., lots and lots of bytes worth of this stuff, we
were on our way. After you get used to the idiosyncrasies of
development in a new and foreign environment, it all seems to makes
some sort of logical sense.

The main development environment used is called Carbide.c++.
It’s based on Eclipse and promoted by Nokia. It seemed alright.
Although someone recently looking for a development environment for S60
did try it but ended up going with some add-in for Visual Studio
instead.

Overall writing S60 apps isn’t rocket science. Just different. And
like a lot of times when you look at developing something outside of
one’s realm of comfortableness, it takes a mental push to break on
through to the other side.

…

Overall it was a very good conference at a great venue.

Source: Radioactive Code

Nokia knows, treat your developers like gold and they will help your platform flourish! I’m saddened however by the Palm joke, they were such an innovative and fantastic company. I’m sad to see them go, but the phrase "innovate or die" definitely pops into mind. What I want to know now is why this conference wasn’t in Europe or the US?

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Diego

    “What I want to know now is why this conference wasn’t in Europe or the US?”

    Shame it wasn’t held where others could get access to some of the material and the people from Nokia (and other companies). One thing I liked was that it catered to both complete beginners as well as advanced developers.

    Although, Australia is a place which usually misses out on cool conferences, so we’re lucky to get this one. :)

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    You are right on that one, Australia misses out on a lot of good expos.

    Blame the flight time!

    It is very rare to see a conference that tries to appeal to the hardcore and the novice. Hey man as long as you got something out of it, that’s all that counts :)