BlackBerry Developer

"BlackBerry Professional" caters to BlackBerry system administrators, application programmers, and BlackBerry web developers.

If you are a BlackBerry system administrator, regardless of size of your corporation, "BlackBerry Professional" does a good job walking you through deploying BlackBerries to people in a corporate organization. The book points out potential pitfalls so that you don't make the common mistakes that others would make.

As an experienced BlackBerry developer, I suggest this book as a must read for those who just started programming the BlackBerry. As any BlackBerry developer knows, in order to master the BlackBerry programming arena, one must first understand the BlackBerry infrastructure, because no matter what type of applications you maybe writing, sooner or later, the BlackBerry application has to interact with the BlackBerry infrastructure. "BlackBerry Professional" also goes over some of the hidden tools of Java Development Environment (JDE), the BlackBerry IDE from RIM, and help you write better BlackBerry applications. "BlackBerry Professional" gives you a good grasp of the development tool along with the BlackBerry infrastructure.

In addition, if you are interested in the BlackBerry web programming, this book also gives good primer on how to structure your website to "fit" a BlackBerry screen.
Furthermore, "BlackBerry Professional" also touches on developing Flash-like web animation, using Plasmic CDK, for the BlackBerry.

This is definitely one that will stay off your bookshelf and be on your desk for frequent usage.

Other stuff I recommend:
- BlackBerry for Dummies - BlackBerry user book
- BlackBerry Journal - http://www.blackberry.com/developers/journal/index.shtml
- BlackBerry Goodies - http://www.blackberryGoodies.com/

Other Reviews

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