Hooklogger is a great tool for Symbian. I've used it a number of times to track down memory leaks.   more »

As a developer this is a question which comes up time and time again. It's actually not difficult to do, but the files you need to change and how you change them can be quite tricky to remember. I did some research on this during my spare time, so I've decided to dig out my notes and place them up here for future reference.   more »

Symbian / Nokia removed the EPOCROOT environment variable. This tool let's you get it back, by obtaining the path to the currently selected environment.   more »

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday season. I'm pleased to announce that TextQuick 1.5 Release Candidate 1 is ready.   more »

Protothreads and how they can be used with Active Objects. - I discovered a really excellent paper on Protothreads. This paper describes how Protothreads can simplify code by removing the need to maintain the state information. They provide a stack-less light weight thread-like structure. It allows a developer to create code which looks and acts as if it's thread, although with a much reduced overhead not to mention producing code which more closely matches the developers original intention.   more »

The end of the beta period and the creation of the first release version of TextQuick, means I know get the chance to lift my head from the code and talk about some of the new features I've added.   more »

Does your S60 emulator crash on startup, well here is the fix.   more »

Following on from the replies I got from Symbian, I did some further investigation...   more »

As you probably gathered from my original posting although it was placed on this blog in April it was actually written before Christmas. In fact it was written in November last year. The original blog entry was in fact posted up on a Symbian internal forum. I got some of these replies vetted and forwarded to me recently, and now I've the opportunity to share with you some of the responses I received....   more »

Instructions on how to get your application launching automatically when you install it...   more »

Ok, I've been bashing the Symbian Signed program, but don't get me wrong I understand and appreciate why it's been put in place. It has very admirable aims.... but...   more »

Finally I think I've found a way to get my application out the door.... but only if I don't mind not getting paid for my efforts, call me cynical, but it would be good to be able to put food on the table every now and then.   more »

The Symbian ecosystem has to date provided me with my career. ...   more »