It’s a good day to be a BlackBerry owner. While iPhone users are getting Rick rolled by an impish hacker, the BlackBerry Developers Conference is in full swing with some big announcements.

Crackberry.com reports that RIM’s press release to start the BBDC announces some great tools designed to enable rich content development for the BlackBerry platform.

OpenGL graphics support, which will enable the creation of 3D games and graphics, will be supported for BlackBerry OS 5.0 and higher through an updated version of the BlackBerry Java SDK. A beta version of the software is already available, so it’s only a matter of time until developers start pushing their more advanced games – and I can’t wait.

Also announced was an all-new GUI builder, which will introduce “drag and drop” functionality to creating Java GUIs for BlackBerry apps. This could be a real game-changer in the app market, but it won’t be available for another few months – the current projection is mid-year 2010.

For those of us who like to tinker with our BBs but aren’t quite developers, there’s also the BlackBerry Theme Studio. This is a suite of design tools that make custom theme creation much more simple and flexible. BlackBerry themes aren’t always the most aesthetically pleasing, and anyone who’s ever tried to create a BB theme using the old option, Plazmic, should understand why. That’s why the new Theme Studio is music to my ears. I’m currently downloading the suite to play around a little and I’ll report back with my impressions in a few days.

All this, and BBDC has barely started! I’m really looking forward to seeing what the rest of the conference holds, but I’m most excited to see what kind of rich content and apps pop up as a result of these new tools. Honestly, last week’s “Droid Day” had me a little down about being locked into the BlackBerry platform, but these updates have helped to cure the BlackBerry Blues.

To follow the BBDC as it happens, check out Crackberry’s live blog or the official BBDC blogs.