One of those didn't run ei­ther, but the one that did pro­vid­ed de­tailed and quite user un­friend­ly logs of what the app was up to in the back­ground. I sent those off to him and to the soft­ware de­vel­op­er. Two re­vi­sions and some dis­cus­sions with Bmo­bile about per­mis­sions or some­thing of that sort lat­er, I was get­ting the par­ty plan­ning feed from Triniscene. This rather ob­vi­ous hic­cup, which was like­ly to af­fect most po­ten­tial Black­ber­ry users us­ing OS4.6, was re­flect­ed on the re­views for the soft­ware on Black­ber­ry' Ap­p­world (http://ap­p­world.black­ber­ry.com/). The Stag Car­ni­val Cal­en­dar app is slow­er to launch than Car­ni­val World, but faster to dis­play its feed. If the Stag app could be per­suad­ed not to keep in­sist­ing on in­stalling its wall­pa­per on every launch, it would be sig­nif­i­cant­ly less an­noy­ing to use. No, I don't want the wall­pa­per, please re­mem­ber that I de­clined the op­tion and let's move on, shall we? In terms of lay­out, the Stag app is more read­able to my old­er eyes than the in­sane­ly tiny text of the Car­ni­val World app, but I'm good with ac­knowl­edg­ing that I am ab­solute­ly not the mar­ket for this soft­ware and much keen­er eyes than mine will be peer­ing in­tent­ly at this in­for­ma­tion. Both are free, so there's no good rea­son not to try both and see how they work out for you.

RIM shot

Ac­cord­ing to RIM, there are a few apps emerg­ing from T&T and these two Car­ni­val re­lat­ed apps are among the first. Ac­cord­ing to Va­lerie Pow­ell, Re­search in Mo­tion's (RIM) busi­ness de­vel­op­ment man­ag­er, "A good first step (for de­vel­op­ers) would be to take a look at the dif­fer­ent ways of cre­at­ing ap­pli­ca­tions on Black­Ber­ry and de­cide which route they would like to take." "Se­lect the de­vel­op­ment plat­form that suits you and the ap­pli­ca­tion you plan to de­vel­op best, whether you want to de­vel­op us­ing web stan­dard tech­nolo­gies like HTML/HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, or Ja­va, or smart­phone themes Black­Ber­ry gives you the op­tion. Black­Ber­ry de­vel­op­ment tools al­so lever­age in­dus­try stan­dard de­vel­op­ment en­vi­ron­ments like Eclipse and Mi­crosoft Vi­su­al Stu­dio." From RIM' per­spec­tive, there were no ma­jor is­sues with the de­vel­op­ment and ap­proval process for the apps from the T&T mar­ket. "As with any­thing tech­ni­cal there is a lot of test­ing and tweak­ing through­out the de­vel­op­ment process to make sure that at the end, there is a good func­tion­ing app." "Up­load­ing the app in­to App World and get­ting ap­proval did not take long at all and any up­dates to the app were pushed through quick­ly."