why did you bother posting?
because of the implication you made and the fact that there are only two posters and you. it's called trolling. you don't know me but made a judgement. here's part of the email i sent the client:
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if you have nothing constructive to say please keep it out of the dev forum and leave it somewhere else where gossip and ill informed conjecture is welcome.
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some points:
- it's a blackberry thread, the blackberry doesn't have the same fanbase that traditional j2me development has. consumer software/games companies tend to concentrate on j2me devices before looking at possibly porting the software to blackberry (only if they can see that it'll be profitable - the view is it's still an enterprise device).
- the j2me scene has huge amount of sites dedicated to optimising the j2me api for maximum performance, your local bookshop will even have lots of books on the subject - there must be 300 skilled j2me developers for every blackberry dev who really knows the api.
- people who post on this board also tend to post exactly (copy&paste) questions over at the dev board on blackberry.com - these posts get ignored if they're dealt with over there.
- the blackberry up until now has largely been an enterprise device where bespoke solutions are commonplace - there is no open source culture in this world and therefore it's a rare thing on the blackberry.
- if people aren't going to learn the basics or rtfm then i won't waste my time helping someone who can't be bothered helping themselves.
- most people use the blackberry.com dev area as the primary source of information and help, the fact that this central area exists means other sites are not so useful, this forum is different; there's plenty of helpful people here.
- people here and at blackberry.com who helped me get to the point where i am now; they helped because i did rtfm and put the effort in. if people post some broken code but they've tried to do it for themselves they'll always get more help from the community than someone who rudely posts 'how do i do xxxx?' and expects everyone to rush in and do it for them, the information is freely available, all you have to do is use a search engine and download the programmers guide pdf's on blackberry.com - there's nothing worse than answering a query to just get another question back to the point where you're basically solving the whole problem for someone.
- there are gaps in my knowledge, if i can't help someone i don't post.
- the blackberry has custom libraries - most of the people posting on these threads work for a living and have little time to spare - there aren't going to be many students like there are on other j2me boards who have the time to spend on problems in a group over the net.
- this site is for both developers and users - users (and there nothing wrong with this) like to browse the dev forum; this is why the threads have a larger 'read' ratio to actual posts.
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