The solution? Add the feeds yourself.
If you are somewhat technical you should be able to to this quite easily. If you are not just let me know which channel you want and I can find the URL for you.

Go to cbcmusic.ca. Find a channel you like using, open your web development tool (Firebug if you use Firefox, I personally use Chrome) and start streaming your audio. Look at the network requests. You should see a request to streamtheworld.com, just copy that URL and manually add it to your list of radio stations in Sonos.

Happy Listening!

Here are a few to get you started:
Canadian Songwriters: http://1521.live.streamtheworld.com/CBC_CANSON_H
Indie Rock: http://3163.live.streamtheworld.com/CBC_INDIE1_H
Adult Alternative: http://3163.live.streamtheworld.com/CBC_ADLTAL_H

 Problem #1

After successfully installing Eclipse and AVD plugin I received the following error when restarting Eclipse:

"Could not open Selected VM debug port (8700). Make sure you do not have another instance of DDMS or of the eclipse plugin running. If it's being used by something else, choose a new port number in the preferences"

Every response to this issue was something along the lines of "well, see what's using that port and kill it/change the port". So let's check that just to make sure the port isn't in use. (NOTE: I'm using Windows)

 From the cmd console:

>telnet localhost 8700 

Can't connect? Me either, so port 8700 isn't in use. Let's just be sure:

>netstat -an

Can't see port 8700 in use? Me either. So it seems as though the error description is a bit misleading. Next have a peek at your hosts file (C:WindowsSystem32driverserchosts). Did you do the same thing as me? Several months ago I pointed localhost to another one of my machines while testing something out... and completely forgot about it! 

I looks like AVD looks to localhost not 127.0.0.1 so just make sure that you remove any old mapping in your hosts file or go ahead and explicitly add it if makes you feel better. 

 .NET web service

{codecitation class="brush: c#;" width="500px"}

 [WebService(Namespace = "urn:tempuri")]

 [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)]

 public class HelloWorldService : System.Web.Services.WebService

 {

    [SoapRpcMethod(), WebMethod]

    public Complex HelloServer2(string user, string pwd) 

    {

       Complex myObj = new Complex();

       myObj.name = string.Format("user:{0}, pwd:{1}", user, pwd);

       myObj.value = 42;

       return myObj; 

    }

    public class Complex 

    {

      public string name; 

      public int value; 

    } 

 } 

{/codecitation}

In HelloWorld.java: 

{codecitation class="brush:java;" width="500px"}

String serviceUrl = "http://localhost/HPServices/HelloWorldService.asmx";        

String serviceNamespace ="urn:tempuri"; //saw a post saying "http://tempuri.org/" might cause a problem.  Who knows?!

String soapAction = "urn:tempuri/HelloServer2";

SoapObject rpc = new SoapObject(serviceNamespace, "HelloServer2");

rpc.addProperty("user", "testuser");

rpc.addProperty("pwd", "123password");        

SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);

envelope.encodingStyle = SoapSerializationEnvelope.ENC;

envelope.bodyOut = rpc;

//envelope.dotNet = true;

// Add the mapping so that the return value can be converted back to our Complex object.  

envelope.addMapping("urn:tempuri/encodedTypes", "Complex", new Complex().getClass()); 

{/codecitation} 

        //envelope.dotNet = true;

I had great expectations for this day. I didn't attend expecting that I would learn how to program in within a 50 minute presentation. I can do that on my own time from the comfort of my home. I came expecting to be inspired. I wanted to see things that I don't normally see in my day-to-day work. I wanted to leave all fired up and ready to make a difference in the world (ok, at least in MY world :) ). Did it deliver? Kind of.

Joel's keynote hit the mark. It's something that all (most) developers should struggle with. How do we make something so incredibly difficult and complex appear effortless and intuitive? Elegant user interface design is something that is lacking far too many applications.

From there things went downhill. Not that the presentations/presenters were bad or didn't know their stuff. I just wasn't inspired. For example, I felt that the JQuery talk could have demonstrated how jQuery can create the worlds most intuitive UI (as an aside, Joel's demo where he added sub tasks completely via the keyboard should be how every interface works. He mentioned that they tried to make it as simple as using notepad).

 [Update: Ralph Whitbeck's jQuery talk can be found here]

Greg Wilson saved the day (slides here). His talk focused on bringing the science back to computer science. Very interesting stuff. He opened my eyes, challenged and inspired me. Thank you Greg.

[Update: Greg Wilson's talk can be found here] 

Reg Braithwaite also gave a great talk. I heard grumblings that there was little in the way of ruby. Which (in my opinion) was his point. Who cares about the language? Languages will come and languages will go. As developers we need to learn how to solve problems, programming languages are just a means to achieve that. If all you know how to use is a hammer then every problem will look like a nail. I wish I would have known a bit more about Reg before the talk. I've followed some of his projects (from a distance) in the past without realizing that he was involved. He is brilliant.

In the end it was a great day. I'll be back next year and I'll be bringing the rest of my team with

My wave account is cagreen@googlewave.com 

Download, install and run the MDS Simulator. Go to https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads/entry.do?code=060AD92489947D410D897474079C1477. Select ‘BlackBerry Email and MDS Services Simulator Package’. Once installed run the ‘MDS’ application.

Next we’ll set up the server portion of this tutorial. The service will contain a simple method that takes a String and returns a String.  I won’t walk through the entire process of creating a .NET web service but here is the code:

{codecitation class=”brush: c#;” width=”500px”}

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Services;

using System.Web.Services.Protocols;

namespace HelloWorldService

{

    [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]    

    public class Service : System.Web.Services.WebService

    {    

        [WebMethod]

        public String HelloServer(String msg)

        {

            return “Hello From Server-” + msg;

        }

   }

}  {/codecitation}

Now let’s revist the HelloWorldScreen class from Part 1.

{codecitation class=”brush: java;” width=”500px”}final class HelloWorldScreen extends MainScreen 

{

private RichTextField textField;

    public HelloWorldScreen() 

    {

        super();

        LabelField title = new LabelField(“HelloWorld Sample”, LabelField.ELLIPSIS | LabelField.USE_ALL_WIDTH);

        setTitle(title);

        textField = new RichTextField(“Hello World!”);

        add(textField);

    }

    public void setScreenTest(String text)

    {

     textField.setText(text);

    }

    public boolean onClose() 

    {

        Dialog.alert(“Goodbye!”);

        System.exit(0);

        return true;

    }

}{/codecitation}

Now the HelloWorld class needs a bit of tweaking:

{codecitation class=”brush: java;” width=”500px”} 

 public HelloWorld() 

    {

        pushScreen(new HelloWorldScreen());                

        String serviceUrl = “http:// <SERVER>/HelloWorldService/Service.asmx”;        

        String serviceNamespace = “http://tempuri.org/”;

        String soapAction = “http://tempuri.org/HelloServer”;

        SoapObject rpc = new SoapObject(serviceNamespace, “HelloServer”);

        SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);

        envelope.bodyOut = rpc;

        envelope.dotNet = true;

        envelope.encodingStyle = SoapSerializationEnvelope.XSD;

        rpc.addProperty(“msg”, (new Date()).toString());

        HttpTransport ht = new HttpTransport(serviceUrl);

        ht.debug = true;

        String result;

        try

        {

           ht.call(soapAction, envelope);

        result = (envelope.getResponse()).toString();         

        }        

        catch(Exception ex)

        {

         result = ex.toString();

        }

        ((HelloWorldScreen)this.getActiveScreen()).setScreenTest(result);        

} {/codecitation}Now run your code!

 Ok, great. Now what about passing Complex types back from the server? 

Again, lets tweak the server side code. Notice the HelloServer2 method. It will return an object named Complex. Also notice that the WebServiceBinding is now set to WsiProfiles.None

{codecitation class=”brush: c#;” width=”500px”}

namespace HelloWorldService

{

    [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.None)]

    [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")]    

    public class Service : System.Web.Services.WebService

    {    

        [WebMethod]

        public String HelloServer(String msg)

        {

            return “Hello From Server-” + msg;

        }

        [SoapRpcMethod]

        [WebMethod]

        public Complex HelloServer2()

        {

            Complex myObj = new Complex();

            myObj.name = “foobar”;

            myObj.value = 42;

            return myObj;

        }

   }

   public class Complex

   {

       public String name;

       public int value;

       public Complex()

       {           

       }

   }

} 

{/codecitation} Once again, a change to the client side:

 {codecitation class=”brush: java;” width=”500px”}

        String soapAction2 = “http://tempuri.org/HelloServer2″;

        SoapObject rpc2 = new SoapObject(serviceNamespace, “HelloServer2″);

        SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope2 = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);

        envelope2.bodyOut = rpc2;

        envelope2.dotNet = true;

        envelope2.encodingStyle = SoapSerializationEnvelope.XSD;

        // Add the mapping so that the return value can be converted back to our Complex obejct. 

     &n
bsp;  envelope2.addMapping(“http://tempuri.org/encodedTypes”, “Complex”, new Complex().getClass());

        envelope2.setOutputSoapObject(rpc2);

        HttpTransport ht2 = new HttpTransport(serviceUrl);

        ht2.setXmlVersionTag(“<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>”);

        ht2.debug = true;

        String result2;

        try

        {

       ht2.call(soapAction2, envelope2);       

       Complex myObj = (Complex)envelope2.getResponse();

       result2 = myObj.getClass().getName() + “, name=”+ myObj.name +”, value=”+myObj.value;  

        }        

        catch(Exception ex)

        {

         //if we get an exception we’ll just write the msg to the screen.

         result2 = ex.toString();

        } 

{/codecitation} 

There you have it! Well… almost. There is one thing that I have not been able to get working properly; that is passing a string to a web service as a parameter and returning a complex type. If anyone can find the flaw in my code and can get this working I would appreciate hearing from you!

 UPDATE: Check out Part 3 of this series to see complex types in action! 

Resources: 

• Part 1 of this tutorial
• Server Source Code for this tutorial (C#)
• Client Source Code for this tutorial (Java)

First of all, do yourself a favour. Just download the Full JDE Plugin, it includes Eclipse. I started by installing a vanilla Eclipse and getting the plugins after, it wasn’t worth the hassle for me. I’m using version 1.0.0.67

Now fire it up and let’s start.

1. Create a new workspace.
   
2. Create a new BlackBerry Project. File > New > Project Select BlackBerry project named ?Sample?.(Figure 2)
3. Create another new BlackBerry Project named ‘KSoapLibrary’ (Figure 3).
   
4.  Open the Project Properties for KSoapLibrary. Go the ‘BlackBerry Project Properties’ and click the ‘Application’ tab. From the Project Type drop down select Library (Figure 4). Click OK.
   
5.  Now we need to add the KSoapLibrary as a project reference to the Sample project. Go to the Project Properties for Sample, click the Project References and select the KSoapLibrary checkbox (Figure 5).  Click OK.
   
6.  It’s time to create a class within our Sample project. Select New > Class. Set the class and packages names (Figure 6). Click Finish.
   
7. Add the contents of the HelloWorld.java file found in the Resources section at the bottom of this page to your new class.
8. Eclipse will now give you a number of errors in the file (Figure 7).  This is because Eclipse does not have the KSoap files within the build classpath. Let’s fix that.
   
• Create a folder within the KSoapLibrary project named ?lib? and add the ksoap2-j2me-core-prev-2.1.2.jar file to the new folder. The pre-verified ksoap file is VERY important. You can either preverify it yourself ordownload ksoap2-j2me-core-prev-2.1.2.jar now.
• In the Sample project properties. Click on the ?Java Build Path? item, then the ?Libraries? tab. Finally, click ?Add Jars??. Select the KSoap jar, then click OK. Now click on the ?Order and Export? tab and select the KSoap jar and click OK (Figure 8).
  
• Now your Eclipse Package Explorer should like the screen shot below, and the error will have disappeared (Figure 9).
  
9. Finally, create another folder under your Samples project named ?images? and add an icon to it. Now go to your project properties then ?BlackBerry Project Properties? and add some information to the ?General? tab and add your icon from the ?Resources? tab (Figure 10).
   
10. Done! Now Run it!
    

Didn’t work?

Common problems may include ?Error Starting Sample: Module ?ksoap2-j2me-core-prev-2.1.2? not found.? I struggled with this for some time. Go back and retrace your steps, you?ve skipped over something. Even though it compiles fine within Eclipse the ksoap jar has not been deployed to the device along with the rest of your code. I have noticed an annoyance where the KSoap jar will be removed from the Properties > Java Build Path ?Libraries? and ?Order and Export? tabs if you make any further changes to the ?BlackBerry Project Properties?. You?ll have to go back in and re-add the jar.

The next example will build off of this and demonstrate how to connect to a .NET web service.

Resources: 

• Source Code for this tutorial
• BacklBerry JDE Eclipse Full Plugin: http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/javaappdev/javaeclipseplug.jsp
• BlackBerry Development Tools – Eclipse Plugin (in beta): http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=427 
• BlackBerry JDE and kSoap and noobs: http://www.blackberryforums.com/developer-forum/140930-blackberry-jde-ksoap-noobs.html
• **** BlackBerry and Ksoap2 Tutorial *****: http://www.blackberryforums.com/developer-forum/155972-blackberry-ksoap2-tutorial.html
• Part 2 of this tutorial

We are currently updating our error page ... this got me thinking about our what the error page says about our web application.  Is it serious, cool and business-like, does it "work hard, play harder", or is it light harted. Further more, is it consistent throughout the application or does it suffer from Multiple Personality Disorder?

As a user, how do you feel when a Windows error dialog comes up accompanied with the 'Critical Stop'  sound? Do you feel the same way when you see Twitter's Fail Whale? What about Google Chrome's "Aw, Snap" error?

Chances are you are more forgiving of the latter two than you are of Windows. Why? Same reason you are more likely to forgive people. You like them better, and that starts with personality.

In Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman's book, "First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently", they explore what makes a great nurse. They found that it wasn't the technique used when giving an injection, it was what they said before the injection. It was their personality. Nurses that showed empathy and told their patients that the injection would hurt a little were see as superior nurses.

A software application should do the same. Even a line of business (LOB) application should say "I know you are forced to use me from 9 to 5 to do your job and you would much rather be on Facebook, but let me help to make your work a little less painful and maybe even enjoyable". For non-LOB applications a strong personality and sense of identity is a must.