Wiki Announcements 2012
Congratulations to Sebastiano Galazzo, April Contributor of the Month (04 May 2012)
This month, Nokia Developer Champion Sebastiano Galazzo (galazzo ) has been selected as Wiki Contributor of the Month.
His articles on for both Windows Phone and Qt are both very useful and interesting - please see: Nokia Maps for WP7 using Bing Map Control, How to access and manage the Microphone raw data in WP7 and Quick guide to add multilanguage support to your QML application.
In addition, he's written a large number of Qt and QML wrapper APIs (hosted on Nokia Projects) that provide Qt access to native Symbian APIs and other useful functionality. His well-written wiki guides on these APIs make the components readily visible and accessible to other developers: How to use QVibra to enable vibration in QML, Using QMicrophone, How to use QShake to detect and manage phone shaking, How to manage phone calls with QS60Telephony, Porting Qt Quick Components to Symbian^1, How to use QJson to easy manage JSON objects with Qt and QIap - a simple Qt interface for In-App Purchasing.
We'd also like to give an "honourable mention" to somnathbanik for his amazing contribution of 22 articles (mostly related to Windows Phone/Qt porting).
Please join me and others to congratulate Sebastiano on the Discussion boards.
PureView Imaging Competition 2012Q2 (23 April 2012)
We're holding a wiki article competition to celebrate the launch of the Nokia 808 PureView, with its revolutionary 41 MP camera sensor and PureView Imaging technology.
We'll be accepting articles about almost any aspect of imaging, from using the camera for still and video photography, to image manipulation, through to innovative gallery software and photo sharing techniques. Articles can cover both Qt and Symbian C++ APIs, and are not restricted to running on just the Nokia 808 PureView.
The GRAND PRIZE will be flights, accommodation and entry to a Nokia sponsored event in the winner's region, along with a beautiful new Nokia 808 PureView smartphone - with more of these devices for our our other winners.
To make this more competitive, we'll be awarding prizes across the 2 month life of the competition - the first winner being chosen from articles submitted before May 15th! See PureView Imaging Competition 2012Q2 for all the details.
Congratulations to Den Grigorenko, March Contributor of the Month (04 April 2012)
This month Nokia Developer Champion Den Grigorenko (Den123 ) has been selected as Wiki Contributor of the Month. In particular, he has written a number of articles showing new QML components that are consistent with the Symbian platform look and feel - for example QML Change Password Dialog, QML component ActionList, QML Day of Week & Time Dialog, Tumbler based SelectionDialog, Advanced MultiSelection Dialog, QML Day of Week & Time Selector, Splash screen while loading main qml, QML Component AccordionList etc. Furthermore, he has created the community project Symbian Community Qt Quick Extras to host these components and make them even easier for the rest of the community to re-use.
We'd also like to give an "honourable mention" to galazzo and conxt . Galazzo similarly provided a number of helpful components for the community along with really interesting articles like Nokia Maps for Windows Phone 7 using Bing Map Control. Conxt has has continued delivering value through articles like Tracker and QtSparql Basics. Both were strong contenders for COM and we'll be watching them closely in the coming months.
Please join me and others to congratulate Den on the Discussion boards.
Symbian Qt Quick Components Competition 2012Q1 (03 April 2012)
We have our winners!
The winners of the Symbian Qt Quick Components Competition 2012Q1 have now been announced - check them out here (and blog post here).
We'll be sending the winners their brand new Nokia 808 PureView device as soon as it is available!
Happy Birthday Wiki - 5 years old (29 March 2012)
We've just had the fifth five year anniversary of this wiki (opened on 28 March 2007).
Thank you for helping grow this amazing pool of knowledge - the nearly ten thousand articles created are a tribute to the vibrancy and collaborative spirit of the Nokia Developer Community.
With only 420 articles to go we should reach the 10000 article milestone in about six months. With your help, we might make it earlier, though of course we recognise that quality articles take more time.
Congratulations to Vineet Jain, February Contributor of the Month (01 March2012)
This month Vineet Jain (vineet.jain ) has been selected for his contributions across the wiki, sub-editing and improving 75 articles. In addition, we thank him for new articles spanning Symbian C++ (How to answer/close call in CTelephony using a single Active Object), Qt (Dynamically creating/updating listbox in QML from C++) and Windows Phone (Hawaii cloud services for Windows Phone 7).
We'd also like to give an "honourable mention" to kkrish and avnee.nathani as both contributed a number of articles and helped improve other developers' work.
Please join me and others to congratulate Vineet on the Discussion boards.
Congratulations to Pasi Manninen, January Contributor of the Month (06 February 2012)
This month Pasi Manninen (pasi.manninen ) has been selected for his contributions in the Windows Phone category.
As a rule the wiki moderation team try to award COM to encourage newer developers that we see have a lot of potential. The fact that we have chosen to award Pasi, who is a Nokia Developer Champion and who was already awarded COM back in 2010, shows how impressed we were with what he has achieved. You can check out his articles here: Weather in Windows Phone 7, Movies in Finnkino Theatre's and Employees from XML in WP7.
Please join me and others to congratulate Pasi on the Discussion boards.
Symbian Qt Quick Components Competition 2012Q1 (27 January 2012)
We're having an app design competition!
The competition is to find great apps that use Symbian Qt Quick Components, mixing standard and custom components to create a fluid and compelling user experience. Of course it is not always easy to remain consistent with the Symbian Design Guidelines so we'll be looking closely at how you innovate within this constraint.
For more information see Symbian Qt Quick Components Competition 2012Q1
Congratulations to Avnee Nathani, December Contributor of the Month (04 January 2012)
This month Avnee Nathani (avnee.nathani ) has been selected for her contributions in the Nokia Maps category.
In addition to creating 2 two new topics: MapPlacesDemo - Plotting multiple POI on Nokia Maps and MyMapDemo - Using Nokia Map Image API with QtQuick, Avnee updated 21 other topics to the current Nokia Maps Javascript API v2.1.0.
Keeping this huge number of articles useful and fresh is a really significant contribution, and is what set her apart from other strong contenders for this award.
Please join me and others to congratulate Avnee on the Discussion boards.
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