I thought I’d pass along pointers to a couple of videos you might want to watch. The first one is to the Engadget Show , where Palm’s CEO, Jon Rubenstein, sits down for a talk about Palm, the Pre and webOS. The other video is the second webcast by Palm’s CTO Mitch Allen, this one covering webOS Application basics: For those getting started programming in webOS, it covers a lot of the ground to get you going and is well worth the time to view
Just a quick note to thank everyone who attended the Application Basics webcast on Tuesday (September 9th), and to thank the O’Reilly team for hosting the webcast. We covered a lot in the hour ranging from how to access and install the SDK, an overview of the SDK tools and building a simple application.
I’m happy to announce we’ve released a new version of the SDK and it’s now available for download. This version is primarily aimed at fixing the installer issues that have been reported on Windows and Macintosh. The “rollback” issue and the problems some people had with the installer on XP with DLLs being replaced improperly leading to BSOD problems are fixed, as is a problem installing on a Mac when the emulator wasn’t properly uninstalled first
The door’s open boys: the webOS SDK for the Palm Pre has just been made available online with Palm’s blessing. In few months, the Palm Pre App Catalog will be.
While we know that we should be able to install apps directly on the Pre eventually, some enterprising folks are looking to do it sooner.
While we know that we should be able to install apps directly on the Pre eventually, some enterprising folks are looking to do it sooner. Up to now, installing “homebrew” apps seemed to require “rooting” your Pre – i.e.
Palm just posted an update on their developer blog telling developers—all of whom are anxious to make apps for the Pre and start making money—that the SDK won’t be out until late summer. On the one hand, it’s good news that they’re going to get an SDK available in three or four months from launch.
With the Pre now in customers’ hands and reports of webOS hacks in the news, we know that you are more anxious than ever to get access to the SDK and start developing for webOS. We’ve been working very hard on the SDK and are eager to open access on a wider scale, but the software and the developer services to support it just aren’t ready yet. Our goal is to make the SDK available to everyone by the end of this summer, and to get there in stages: Beginning immediately, we’ll accelerate the growth of the early access program, expanding as quickly as resources allow
We are excited to announce the availability of Palm’s open source portal at http://opensource.palm.com . We’re using Linux and various other open source software in webOS to allow us to accelerate innovation through collaboration with the global community of open source developers. The benefits of teaming with the open source community come with the important responsibility of ensuring compliance with applicable open source license obligations.
It has been a week since we announced our expansion of the early access program for the Palm Mojo SDK, so I wanted to give you a quick update and thank you for your interest! We’ve been thrilled and, frankly, awed by your response. As you may have seen on Twitter, @palm_inc recently tweeted that we’d received about a gazillion applications for early access, and that’s not far from the truth. We let our first batch of developers in late last week, and another batch early this week
We had a few requests for the slides to the Developing Applications for WebOS webcast. I’ve uploaded them to Slideshare, and they’re now available for those that wanted them.
I’m happy to announce that the Developing Applications for webOS webcast is now available from O’Reilly for online viewing.
A couple of days ago we asked for your feedback and questions on the Webinar, and we got a lot of both! Thank you all, and keep it coming! Here’s the first set of answers to some of the questions that were asked. We’re still working on answering more of them, so stay tuned. First, we had a lot of questions on the documentation, when it’ll be available, and what will be in it.
