BREW

What is BREW?
BREW = Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless

BREW Development Overview
This is the starting point of a wiki about BREW development. For those who have never heard of BREW, like the me of yesterday, it's a set of libraries for developing cell phone applications. It seems that different cell phones support different library implementations, and BREW is one of them. It's developed by Qualcomm, and seems to be geared towards Visual Studio-based development. If all that seems kind of vague, it is. I started learning about this yesterday.

Motivation
I bought a new cell phone. It's an LG VX-8300. It supports BREW apps. I want to write a cell phone app (for purely personal reasons). So I'm going to write it using BREW, so I can use it on my cell phone.

Getting started
Day 1: Trying to download the environment

Currently whenever I click the install link at Qualcomm's download page I get an internal server error-like page. So not a good start. I'll try some more later, but there's not much I can do until I actually get the environment.