I’m receiving some emails regarding the source code of my recent Python application…Just wanted to say that I have no problem sharing the code as long as you don’t distribute it as yours and don’t charge if you make an exact replica of my program. Just drop me an email and I’ll send it to you (or you can unsis my program and save your request for another time )

If you want to start programming with Python there are a lot of resources, but I found few of them to be the most useful:

• www.mobilenin.com/pys60/menu.htm (and the links in “links to other useful sites” section)
• Official Documentation of PyS60 (actually this is the one I’m referring: PythonForS60_1_4_2_doc.pdf)
• If you have any problem, google for it! It really does help and you can find the answer in few seconds.

You can really be up and running in half day!! To be honest, programming is not difficult; what is going to be difficult is trying to get the program work on other mobile phones. The culprit? Symbian Signed. Also consider that python is ok for small applications, but as soon as you want to start adding modules to use new features, like sending an application in the background, things get really nasty. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t… and most of the time the problem it’s not a bug in your program, it’s the fuc*ing certificate (oh yes, additional modules need to be signed too!!). It seems to me that Symbian Signed was designed with inconsistency in mind but anyway I’m verging on the rant now…bottom line: Symbian Signed is a nightmare!!!! I really hope the new system will help things.

By the way, the beta of Open Signed Online is already online if you want to test it and sign one of your unsigned applications. Here’s the link. You just need to give your email address, application and IMEI. Then specify the capabilities you need and you’ll get the link to the signed application. Seems better, but I won’t change my mind about Symbian Signed very soon.

Anyway, if you are really passionate about extending mobile phone functionality, give PyS60 a try… you won’t be disappointed.

Published with Windows Live Writer… Seems quite nice. Image handling is amazing. You can copy and paste from internet and it will upload it to your website!!!

-Reda