“Meet the Team” is a series to help you get to know your webOS Developer Relations team. It’s a friendly and fun behind-the-scenes look at the people whose main mission is to serve and champion webOS developers everywhere. This time we chat with Donald Kirker, who specializes in App Review for the webOS team.
Building on the excitement and good times we had at webOS CONNECT London , the fun continues with a pair of upcoming webOS CONNECT events in Paris and Berlin, slated for May. Whether you’re an experienced webOS developer or someone that just wants to learn and see what all the webOS buzz is about, these events are the perfect opportunity to: – Meet Richard Kerris, VP of webOS Developer Relations and others on the webOS team – Learn from best practices of other webOS developers – Network with the webOS community over some good food and fun With the webOS 3.0 SDK out in Early Access and all-new webOS devices coming, there’s so much to talk about and we want to bring everyone together to share in all of it and have a good time
Even with all the exciting news from this week, a lot of questions have been floating around about our plans and how they affect you and our customers. As such, we recognize that we need to do a better job communicating developments in a more timely, detailed and thoughtful way.
The awesome webos101 crew have a code snippets area that you should know about. What kind of cases will you see up there
Palm’s fearless Developer Relations leaders Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer hosted a little shindig Wednesday night along with Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie. (Appcelerator is the creator of Titanium, a cross-platform development environment that uses JavaScript to write native code for multiple devices—can you guess why we like them so much?) The DevRel team met lots of developers who wanted to know more about porting to webOS, did some tutorials, gave away prizes, and generally partied ourselves silly. We were also excited to celebrate the announcement of Palm’s new Hot Apps program , dedicated exclusively to PDK applications, and resident PDK expert Ben Combee was on the scene to talk about just how easy it is to port OpenGL iPhone applications to webOS .
For those of you who enjoyed the Developer Day videos uploaded earlier in the week, but were waiting for the rest to be made available, today is the day ! You can now see Kevin Decker discussing development of the new Facebook app, and Kevin Hague introducing Ares fundamentals, plus more great presentations that dig deep into webOS. And be sure to watch Aaron Ardiri’s discussion of game development using the PDK and SDL, and Dave Balmer’s presentation on graphics in HTML5. Enjoy! Ben and Dion give the keynote Kevin Hague on Ares The UI team dispenses wisdom Joe Hayashi Discusses Marketing
If you’re not an active participant in our developer forums , you may have missed some of the best conversations. Here’s some that are worth your attention. There’s a long running thread on our ongoing promotion at “Hot Apps Leaderboard” .
Laptop Magazine did a “ March Madness ” users vote playdown of various phones. The Palm webOS community organized itself and got involved, and I’m thrilled to report the Palm Pre ended up winning the entire tournament! I want to thank everyone among the community who got involved and voted and encouraged others to do so as well. it’s a little bit bragging rights, but it’s really a nice reminder that the community we’re involved with on this platform is as committed and interested in seeing this platform succeed as we are — so thanks! chuq
When we released the Facebook app last week we talked about how we wanted to develop a nice cadence of releases. We are writing on webOS, so surely we can get features out on web time right? When our full developer program went live, our App Catalog began supporting a Beta channel which enables you to get new versions out to a community that is willing to live on the edge
Game developers interested in accelerating profitability of existing and future apps are invited to join Palm to learn more about webOS at two upcoming conferences.
A year ago Palm introduced the world to the Pre and webOS. Since then Palm has shipped the Pre and the Pixi, launched with strong carrier partners in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Ireland, and Mexico, and partnered with you for a successful private beta that has resulted in over 1,000 applications that have enriched the Palm experience.
Dan Kurtz, the resident web expert at Self Aware Games , joined Palm on-stage at the Sprint Developer Conference to share his team’s lessons learned from having developed two games for webOS, Word Ace and Card Ace. The team came to webOS thinking that first reports made it an attractive platform for some of their gaming ideas, especially if they matched the games to webOS core capabilities, such as always-on web connectivity, easy text entry from a physical keyboard, and multitasking. That said, they didn’t take the task of developing a webOS game lightly.
