Tizen Running Everything...And Everywhere: Upcoming Tizen Labs, Hack-a-thons and Events

Tizen developers, and those eager to learn more about the open source platform, will have plenty of opportunity for hands-on instruction around the world this fall. From San Francisco and Bangalore to Tokyo and Edinburgh, the events are a great chance for mobile and HTML5 developers to find out more about the technical details, architecture, and building blocks needed to develop Tizen solutions. Developers will also be able to hack away, socialize, learn and possibly create prize-winning apps, of course, by entering the Tizen App Challenge offering just over $4M in prizes.

Running Node.JS on Tizen 2.0

Node.JS is increasingly popular within the robotics community. A quick search on google or youtube brings up multiple nodecopters, and johnny-five implementations. A lot of these have node.js running on a smaller processor and not the original data center server where node.js is traditionally installed. As I was browsing the download site looking to upgrade my SDP to Tizen 2.2 , I happened upon a set of rpm files  and thought I'd try my luck at running some of them. After a few false starts I present here a method of getting node.js running on Tizen 2.0, including the tweaks you need to get npm, the node package manager working as well.                          

Unlock Your Inner Badge Appeal During the Tizen App Challenge

Developers, maybe more than any other profession (celebrities being the exception), live and die by their reputation. In the case of app developers, they live and die by the quality of their code and the resulting success of their app. The opportunity to gain visibility and secure a foothold by being one of the first to enter the Tizen market is a big one; in fact, it’s a $4M opportunity. And, if you’re an HTML5 developer, you really should be involved. Tizen is the highest ranked platform for HTML5 on HTML5test.com During the Tizen App Challenge there is one way to let people know your reputation and cred is building as you’re building apps for this promising platform: the Tizen App Challenge badges.

Tizen For Dummies book, 2.0 Alpha & 2.1 release

If you were lucky enough to get your hands on a copy of Tizen For Dummies at the Tizen Conference last month, you’ve already got the most up to date version of this book. The original Tizen for Dummies book, released in February 2013, was written using version 2.0 alpha of the Tizen SDK and the 2.1 release brought with it quite a few changes. We’ve summarised the main changes in the document you can download below. DOWNLOAD NOW

Content Security Framework

The Tizen Security Team would like to announce the contribution of the Content Security Framework from McAfee.  Everyone understands that mobile security threats are growing in both numbers and sophistication.  We believe it is essential that Tizen includes measures to combat malware as part of the basis of the platform.  McAfee is delighted to contribute the Content Security Framework to the Tizen Open Source project that will enable not only McAfee, but also other ecosystem members to provide a secure mobile experience to Tizen users. This framework is available for developers to access in the git project at framework/security/csr-framework.  This repository includes source code, a test suite and documentation about the framework.  It is also available as pre-built rpm packages here:http://download.tizen.org/live/Devel:/2.0:/Security/standard

Winners Announced for Tizen Contest

After much processing & deliberation, we are proud to announce the winners of the Tizen contest from 2012.

Tizen.org Redesign

Tizen.org has been completely redesigned and upgraded to provide a vibrant developer community for Tizen application and platform developers. A number of additional features and content will be added in the coming weeks to build on this redesign. The Tizen Community workgroup would like your feedback on this redesign and what additional features you would like to see. You can provide this feedback in a number of ways: Post to the General Support Forum Submit a bug to the Bug Tracker Post a message to the mailing list