Wiki Announcements 2010
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| Nokia signing Symbian apps for free | August 21st, 2010 |
By removing the “public beta” for Symbian Signing, Nokia is demonstrating to Ovi Publishers its commitment to review the initial investment costs associated with getting a publisher ID and getting their apps signed. Ovi Publishers can have their Qt Symbian (with Nokia Smart Installer for Symbian), Symbian C++, Flash Lite apps, and Symbian Themes signed for free by Nokia after providing the necessary information and following some new steps during their application submission to publish to Ovi.
| Mob4Hire available now | August 21st, 2010 |
Nokia Developer's User Experience program has been expanded to include thousands of test users around the world available through Mob4Hire. The user feedback available from Mob4Hire consists of instantaneous responses from everyday mobile application users, and it is available to developers at a reasonable price.
| Remote Device Access services | August 21st, 2010 |
Nokia Developer offers two services for Remote Device Access (RDA) providing developers with working Nokia devices over the Internet. There is the free Remote Device Access; and there is also a paid service called the Nokia Developer Virtual Developer Lab, powered by DeviceAnywhere. Using RDA, developers can easily test and demo their apps prior to final release. In addition, DeviceAnywhere hosts weekly "tutorials" on the Nokia Daily App blog that demonstrate key features & functionality of leading apps in Nokia Store.
| Congratulations to Levin Wei June’s Contributor of the Month | July 8th, 2010 |
This month Levin_Wei
has been selected by the Wiki Administrators for his excellent translations of Qt articles to Chinese as the Contributor of the Month.
Most months a Nokia Developer member that contributes high quality new articles or major edits is named the Contributor of the Month and is awarded a Nokia Multimedia device for his/her contribution to the developer’s community.
You too can be a Contributor of the Month by simply contributing useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or by significantly shaping up the already existing ones. If you have significant edits to the existing pages then please bring these to Nokia Ron
attention. Articles are judged first and foremost by the quality, value and appearance of the article and code so even one very good article can win.
| Congratulations to sangramp@cybage May’s Contributor of the Month | June 14th, 2010 |
This month sangramp@cybage.com
has been selected by the Wiki Administrators for his excellent contributions in May when his articles on FlashLite were selected for Featured Article of the Week.
Most months a Nokia Developer member that contributes high quality new articles or major edits is named the Contributor of the Month and is awarded a Nokia Multimedia device for his/her contribution to the developer’s community.
You too can be a Contributor of the Month by simply contributing useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or by significantly shaping up the already existing ones. If you have significant edits to the existing pages then please bring these to Nokia Ron
attention. Articles are judged first and foremost by the quality, value and appearance of the article and code so even one very good article can win.
| Shining the Spotlight on Nokia Developer Wiki Moderator Croozeus | May 6th, 2010 |
Mr. Pankaj Nathani croozeus
uses his knowledge to assist other developers in Nokia Developer. A hard working administrator croozeus corrects and edits articles that are uploaded. Assists others in contributing to the web site. Selecting the article of the week, Contributor of the Month and judging Wiki contests are just some of the administrator tasks that Croozeus has taken out with zeal and comitment.
You can read the biography of Croozeus in our Champion's web page. This impressive engineer has shown a passion to help and teach others as he continues to advance his knowledge of mobile device development.
| Congratulations to Grahamhughes April Contributor of the Month | May 6th, 2010 |
This month grahamhughes
has been selected by the Wiki Administrators for his excellent contributions in 2010 including this months articles:
Gesture Recognizer for Java ME – Featured Article
JSR 172: Accessing a .NET Web Service
JSR 172: XML Parsing Example
other articles this year include:
PNG Encoding in Java ME
Reading an InputStream in Java ME
Persistent Data in Java ME
Java Exception Handling: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Most months a Nokia Developer member that contributes high quality new articles or major edits is named the Contributor of the Month and is awarded a Nokia Multimedia device for his/her contribution to the developer’s community.
You too can be a Contributor of the Month by simply contributing useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or by significantly shaping up the already existing ones. If you have significant edits to the existing pages then please bring these to Nokia Ron
attention. Articles are judged first and foremost by the quality, value and appearance of the article and code so even one very good article can win.
| Announcing the Winners of the Qt Article Contest | April 15th, 2010 |
Thanks to everyone that contributed in the Qt article last month. The winners in the Champions category are kiran10182
and skumar_rao
. For the members our winners are juergenm
and domgus
The randomly selected winner was Yashu
. I wish to thank all that contributed articles.
All articles submitted for the contest were subjectively judged on how well they were presented, what the content was originality and presentation. Champions were held to a higher standard than the general members were. For the random entry each article was given a number based on alphabetical order of the title and then a number was generated using random.org number generator. For a full set of rules see: Rules of Participation
| Qt Mobility Contest Winners! | April 7th, 2010 |
There were over 100 entries for the Archived:Qt Mobility Contest - January 2010, from around 50 developers. The participants have certainly stepped up to meet the challenge, and the results have been great.
Nokia Developer and Wiki admin teams are proud to present the results and congratulate the winners! Join us on congratulating the winners.
First prize: axeljaeger
Axel’s applications were well-developed to promote usefulness of Mobility, and providing high-quality and reusable code; QtKeyboard, Abusing Publish and Subscribe, Contactcube, HttpRemote, QtOrientationTest.
Second prize: Hendy Irawan
Hendy’s applications were dealing with compelling use case ideas and he had provided the best documentation and good quality, well-structured code; for example, the UI and engine were nicely separated; http://gitorious.org/messagemerge, http://gitorious.org/geotweet, http://gitorious.org/sysinfodump.
Other prize winners:
Antti Luoma: QtMobilityYouPlayer
Dominik Gusenbauer and Daniel Rothbauer: Qt Mobility Usage Scenario: The mSense middleware
Sunil Kumar: Qt Mobility API Basic Examples Part 1
Rainhard Findling and Sebastian Höbarth: Sources of their applications have not yet been made publicly available.
We would also like to thank everyone else who submitted entries to the contest, and hope to see those contributions further developed and made public as well. We look forward to seeing you all contributing to the community also in the future!
Nokia Developer and Wiki Admin teams
| Congratulations to Pasi.manninen March Contributor of the Month | April 5th, 2010 |
This month pasi.manninen
has been selected by the Wiki Administrators for his excellent contributions covering features of APIBridge and S60 Platform Services API for Flash Lite last month.
Capturing and uploading image, video or audio files to server with Flash Lite and APIBridge,
Creating Image Gallery with Flash Lite and APIBridge and Display contact information and locations in Google Maps with Flash Lite 3.1
Most months a Nokia Developer member that contributes high quality new articles or major edits is named the Contributor of the Month and is awarded a Nokia Multimedia device for his/her contribution to the developer’s community.
You too can be a Contributor of the Month by simply contributing useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or by significantly shaping up the already existing ones. If you have significant edits to the existing pages then please bring these to Nokia Ron
attention. Articles are judged first and foremost by the quality, value and appearance of the article and code so even one very good article can win.
| Congratulations to Hoolee February's Contributor of the Month | March 8th, 2010 |
This month hoolee
has been selected by the Wiki Administrators for his numerous contributions and translation to the Wiki.
Most months a Nokia Developer member that contributes high quality new articles or major edits is named the Contributor of the Month and is awarded a Nokia Multimedia device for his/her contribution to the developer’s community.
You too can be a Contributor of the Month by simply contributing useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or by significantly shaping up the already existing ones. If you have significant edits to the existing pages then please bring these to Nokia Ron
attention. Articles are judged first and foremost by the quality, value and appearance of the article and code so even one very good article can win.
| Write a Qt Wiki Article to Win a Nokia N97 Mini or N900 Multimedia Device | March 3rd, 2010 |
Just contribute a Qt article to the Nokia Developer Wiki between March 1st and March 31st 2010 to win Nokia’s new premier multimedia device shown above. The rules are simple, contribute quality or topical Qt articles, How to’s or code examples for Qt. All contributors will have a chance at winning a device as one winner will be chosen at random.
All articles submitted during the time period will be subjectively judged on how well they are presented, what the content is and the number of quality entries. The number of devices awarded will be reflected by the number or quality articles submitted. The more people that participate; the more phones we will give away.
In addition to the possibility of winning, all contributors will be considered for nomination into the Nokia Developer Champions program. So if you want honor and glory and a new touch device contribute to the Wiki this month.
Nokia Developer employees and contractors are not eligible for this contest. Champions will have separate prizes and judging.
The full set of rules of participation are available here.
| Congratulations to Vasant21 January's Contributor of the Month | Feb 9th, 2010 |
This month vasant21
has been selected by the Wiki Administrators for his numerous contributions to the Wiki. Not only has Vasant21 contributed new articles he has also edited many others to improve the developer community.
Most months a Nokia Developer member that contributes high quality new articles or major edits is named the Contributor of the Month and is awarded a Nokia Multimedia device for his/her contribution to the developer’s community.
You too can be a Contributor of the Month by simply contributing useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or by significantly shaping up the already existing ones. If you have significant edits to the existing pages then please bring these to Nokia Ron
attention. Articles are judged first and foremost by the quality, value and appearance of the article and code so even one very good article can win.
| Congratulations to Neois December's Contributor of the Month | Jan 6th, 2010 |
This month neois
has achieved this honor for his informative articles on Qt and Installing Maemo 5, including his Qt Tutorial Lesson 1. However Neois is not new to Nokia Developer Wiki having contributed web runtime articles and participating whenever possible.
Most months a Nokia Developer member that contributes high quality new articles or major edits is named the Contributor of the Month and is awarded a Nokia Multimedia device for his/her contribution to the developer’s community.
You too can be a Contributor of the Month by simply contributing useful articles, example codes, tutorials, or by significantly shaping up the already existing ones. If you have significant edits to the existing pages then please bring these to Nokia Ron
attention. Articles are judged first and foremost by the quality, value and appearance of the article and code so even one very good article can win.
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