www.benmorris.eu
email: ben@benmorris.eu
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For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guide-book will be the one which he himself has written.Aldous Huxley (1925) Along the Road
The official developer support sites from Sony Ericsson, UIQ, Nokia's S60—and of course Symbian.
Take a look too at SymbianOne for news and views, and NewLC for a refreshingly full–frontal developer perspective.
My book, at Symbian Press • Vinitech, Bordeaux, last November— reporting from the world's biggest wine trade fair, in the UKVA's Grape Press • December WDF Cambridge speaker.
Taken from my book...
Ben Morris joined Psion Software in October 1997, working in the SDK team on the production of the first C++ and Java SDKs for what was at that time still Psion Software's EPOC32 operating system. He led the small team that produced the SDKs for the ER5 release of EPOC32, and when Psion Software became Symbian, he took over responsibility for growing and leading the company's new system documentation team. In 2002 he joined the newly formed System Management Group in Symbian's Software Engineering organisation, where he devised the original System Model for Symbian OS.
Well this for example, Nokia's latest, the N95.
Will it change the world? Is it a force for good? Maybe that depends on us...
Not subtle, no future, and not obvious why anyone would fall for it, but a timely reminder that they're out there. The kind of premium–rate number scam that motivates v9 platform security.
This is the web homepage and contact point for Ben Morris. Based in London, UK, I write about software, and freelance as a writer and system and product architect specialising in Symbian OS.
Recently published (May 2007), this is the first book from Symbian Press to focus on the OS architecture and its evolution. Part description, part reference, part case study, part history, it aims to make Symbian OS more accessible to a wider audience than has been catered for to date.
Nice blurb from the publicity people:
A new book from Symbian Press which discusses the design and evolution of Symbian OS. Packed full of insight, it provides the background to the decisions which shape Symbian OS as we know it today.
Like all good books, you'll find it in a bookshop near you. And of course it's here too on Amazon, and at home on the Wiley site.
When I'm not using, thinking or writing about software, I like to write about wine and vines. You can visit the small vineyard (less than one hectare) I'm restoring to production in Piemonte, Italy, at Google Earth 44 38.01 N 8 8.850 E or thereabouts.
2007/03/22
Many years ago we used a machine whose internal temperature could be estimated from the number of low–order bits it got wrong in floating–point calculations.Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike (1999) The Practice of Programming
2007/04/13
Most inventions are never used: most innovations fail.David Edgerton (2006) The Shock Of The Old
2007/04/25
"Life is bountiful," he seems to be saying all the time. "Relax! Life is here, all about you, not there, not over the hill."Henry Miller (1977) Preface to Thoreau, Life Without Principle
2007/05/14
Poetry is more valuable than cricket, but Bradman would be a fool if he sacrificed his cricket in order to write second–rate minor poetry (and I suppose that it is unlikely that he could do better). If the cricket were a little less supreme, and the poetry better, then the choice might be more difficult.G. H. Hardy (1940) A Mathematician's Apology
2007/05/22
Combinators make ideal pets. They can safely be let out to contract and reduce if kept on a long corollary attached to a fixed point theorem, but do watch out that they don't get themselves into a logical paradox whilst playing around it.Carol Hindley in J. Roger Hindley and Jonathan P. Seldin (1993) Introduction to Combinators and λ–Calculus
2007/05/28
Philosophers don't make any money and don't make any women. Philosophy graduates who don't become winemakers become chefs; it's the same impulse.Randall Grahm quoted in Patrick Matthews (2000) Real Wine
2007/06/05
We have one tongue and two ears to listen twice as much as we speak.Zeno, reputedly. Cf F. H. Sandbach (1975) The Stoics
