Well, as I have blogged about this on previous occasion, I can now breathe a sigh of relief and voted to close this site proposal as the crew (Hi Wit, Nour 
) over at badadev.com has come up with their own innovative site aptly named Ask Badadev, so thanks to GeekyBob, and the rest of the pirate crew, to those who have joined in and gave their support in the site proposal.
It is a mixed blessing in disguise now we have a superior bada community there now @ ask.badadev.com…
Long may it last and wish every success in that adventure on the bada seas…. arr arr
Now that there’s three different SDK’s to download, the script will have to be modified to take into account of the different directory names used, for SDK 1.0.0, some, if not all, have a ‘-stable’ at the end of the directory name, now that there’s what, currently:
- 1.0.0 SDK
- 1.0.0b SDK
- 1.1.0b SDK
so it means, the 1.1.0b will have a different name other than ‘-stable’ which would imply unstable? and also heavy lifting will be required to use the script, perhaps, an external file in which the script can read in the variables for each directory without having to modify the main script itself…
stay tuned and feel free to put in a pm in github’s project page if you want to post issues as such with the script itself.
I have opened up the project on github that is a replacement bash script intended for Linux, to ease building the Codesourcery’s cross-compiler bada toolchain that targets the Samsung Wave. Read more »
Samsung, if you are reading this, this is my open letter to you. Read more »
Ever since Samsung released the Wave handset, with 1Million (Global sales) sold in June, and yet 1Million sold in Europe alone… with its new OS called Bada, it is still very much in a stage of infancy, with a neat SDK using C++, as I am registered on six forums about Samsung Wave and the Bada platform, I have noticed that the questions asked, are duplicated across those forums, which inspired me to come up with a novel solution… Read more »
Samsung hosted a developer’s challenge – to come up with an application that targets the Bada platform. There’s two phases, the first is the Simulator Phase, in which the application must work in the simulator and the submission date was set in stone for 31st August 2010. Read more »
If you are an owner of a Wave S8500 handset – do not be tempted to do down the route in flashing with unofficial firmware nor trick Kies into thinking your handset is in need of an update… Read more »
I have started an on-line petition for the benefit of the Samsung’s Bada community to lift the ban and restrictions for developers who develop apps on their own handsets… this was sparked by my posting to Samsung’s official Bada forum about the nature of the restriction in place…to quote
We, application developers for Samsung’s bada OS, ask Samsung to grant us improved and easier access to our own developed applications on bada handsets.
In the current situation, Samsung restricts us developers to only one application at a time on our bada device for debugging or test purposes as well as for personal use.
Although the current limitations might be to decrease potential dangers of software piracy – but as developers, are we actually going to pirate our own applications that we developed? We, the developers, fork out a lot of money to get our hands on our devices and invest our time and patience in developing applications for our own and everyone else’s use. We should have the right to have free unrestricted access to our own self-created applications on our devices.
We should be allowed to hold more than a single self-developed application on our devices, to lift the severe limitations and inflexibility caused by the one-app-restriction, and to increase efficiency by allowing parallel debugging and testing of several applications at a time.
The logic in the current restriction appears almost ridiculous, as this would also mean that we developers have to buy and pay at the Appstore for our own application we created in order to actually use it ourselves.
Thus, Our proposal is the following:
Disband the restriction of one self-developed application per device for bada developers.
One possible solution, concerning both parties, we developers as well as Samsung, would be the following:
To register developer handsets and IMEI numbers at Samsung, receiving a internal root certificate, which is tied to our own device, enabling us to develop, test, debug and use multiple applications on our devices at once and to be able to run those without any restrictions.
Recently there’s being some discussions about Bada Wave Handsets which topped sales of 1Million units sold in four weeks, the forum was abuzz with a discussion about it, ended up biasing towards the features of the handsets with a Nokia 5800 (yuk! 
). But nonetheless, at the end of the day, it is down to:
- Improving the SDK, easy to use API to do a lot more things
- Easy to put an application up to the Samsung’s App Store.
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Right, I have noticed there is a lack of regular expressions for the bada platform so without further ado, I ported PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) to both the bada’s simulator and the native handset – Wave GT-S8500 and it works! w00t!
- The thread I posted to forums.badadev.com in respect of PCRE Port and how to achieve it.
- This is the original thread on that forum about PCRE that kick-started off my goal to get the regexp working.
- This is the reply I wrote up about getting it to work in the simulator.
So there, it’s all there now… and its a debug version, not release as no optimisation to the code is done yet until it is verified to work.
Recently, I was working on a new platform by Samsung called Bada, Korean for Ocean…and boy what a fun time I had in developing an application for the Bada platform, using C++. It was quite a simple and trivial to code under it and had immense pleasure playing with the SDK. Bada promises to be an open source platform for development efforts. Well… there’s Android/Java, there’s iPhone/Objective C, WinMobile/.NET, now there’s Bada/C++, quite understandably, they are trying to muscle in on the market in having their own application store, very much so that they recognize the potential and effort.
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