BlackBerry Jam @ Charlotte Code Camp

On March 28th I will be speaking at a Microsoft Code Camp hosted by The Charlotte Area Enterprise Developer's Guild at Central Piedmont Community College. My presentation will be called "BlackBerry Jam for Beginners" and will provide some much needed information for programmers who would like to build applications for BlackBerry. When I decided to do this presentation I knew absolutely nothing about BlackBerry or Java. Finding resources was difficult to say the least. There are no books, that I could find, that explain how to build BlackBerry applications, and information found via Google was spotty and required many, many hours to locate and sift. The presentation will introduce students to the tools required to build applications for BlackBerry and will also involve a sample application, which calls a web service to retrieve data. I plan to blog this presentation as soon as I have time.