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As a new WIPster, I’ve just come from a long summer sabbatical where I was relatively unplugged and completely unfettered. It’s amazing what can change in a short 4 months if you’re not paying attention. But the world keeps turning, regardless of whether RIM finally releases 10 or not.   As far as my big predictions, the most important has to be an upcoming Star Wars movie. Since the big sale to Disney there’s been wide speculation and my prediction is that’s all going to be put to rest at the upcoming Emerald City Comicon. Did you hear Carrie Fisher is going! Stay tuned for that and if you haven’t got your tickets yet to Emerald City Comicon, well you should.

But as far as mobile goes, Blackberry 10 is coming and I don’t think anyone is really holding their breath. There will be plenty of time for developers to assess whether they will adopt or not but it will continue to be a long slow battle for RIM. Android and iOS will continue to dominate, with Windows taking up the slack...

Grzegorz Trubilowicz is the Founder & CEO of Cooklet (@CookletApp), but perhaps more importantly, a foodie who loves great, usable designs and smart implementations of mobile technologies. Prior to Cooklet, Greg launched IKS design studio and IKS Mobile games developer with successful titles like Crazy Matches and Cubic Republic. You can find him on Twitter (@Trubilowicz) and Facebook

Tell us a little about yourself

I’ve been in the mobile industry since 2004 starting with game design for J2ME games which eventually transformed into own mobile studio. In 2007, we created one of the first truly cross-screen, multiplayer game - Tropictos, where users could use Nintendo Wii, Nokia smartphones, PCs and Sony PSP to play it.  Then, after two years of working on different multi-platform projects: the idea emerged: Cooklet!

At first sight, Cooklet seems to be just another recipe website. What makes it standout?

Cooklet.com is just a part of our culinary platform. Truth be told, the...

You will be excused for not knowing what the Eclipse mobile Pluginfest is and that it happened in the first place... But you will not be excused next time for having missed this historical moment of mobile  development tool's history : 2007 the first mobile pluginfest..

Throw yourself back in 2007! I know it's kind of hard so I'll paint a quick portrait of the days, Symbian is the most innovative and widespread mobile OS on the planet, WindRiver and IBM are 2 different companies, J2ME is still an important part of Mobile development (even though the Mobile Tools for Java project is struggling a bit), Doug Gaff was still at WindRiver, Doug Schaefer still at QNX, Christian Kurzke still at Motorola, Lars Kurth and I still at Symbian. The only sign of stability in this world is Ian Skerrett who's still heading marketing at Eclipse Foundation and should be thanked for his efforts to get the pluginfest sparkle back!

Back in 2007 we (as in the team of people named above) realized...

As I peer into my crystal ball I see a year of more growth coupled with higher expectations for mobile along with a few upsets along the way.

The Growth

If you didn’t rest over the holidays, don’t expect to relax anytime soon no matter where you fit in the industry.  We will continue to see more devices, more demand for apps, and more demand for developers. 

It was March when we declared 2010 The Year of the Mobile Developer.  Developers were in hot demand and were finally being embraced publically and vocally as a key piece of the mobile ecosystem.   

With that, we will continue to see huge growth in the number of mobile developers entering the scene.  I do think we will see a combination of really newbie/webby developers, given the rise in toolssuch as AppMobi.   As mobile has now become ‘mainstream’ we will also see more traditional software folks entering mobile.  Expect more development tools and enablers (analytics, advertising etc) on the scene too.  Choice...

Terry Hughes, president and CMO of Widality, developers of the BlackBerry business app Momentem, sent us this report from RIM's recent WES 2010 event in Florida. If you'd like to report on a mobile event you're attending and have your report and company featured on the WIP blog, send me an email at carlo at wipconnector dot com! Thanks Terry (celebrating the 100,000th registered user of
Momentem live at WES), and take it away!

As the developer of a B2B app / service exclusively available for BlackBerry users, I wanted to share my thoughts on WES and on RIM’s strategy too.

Although BlackBerry is way more of a consumer-focused company than ever before (as witnessed by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas doing a keynote!), much of the emphasis was on good old fashioned things like B2B solutions, the needs of the enterprise for mobility, and making money -- yes, making money isn’t a dirty word after all!

RIM appeared assertive and confident, partly because they had made it into the...