http://atlanta.predevcamp.org Just another preDevCamp 2009 weblog Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:04:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en UPDATE: Make sure to go to 981 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd. NW... not sw.  Here's a direct link to the google map. preDevCampAtlanta is almost here! WHO: YOU! WHAT: preDevCamp Atlanta WHEN: 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM, Saturday August 8th WHERE: Roundbox Global (981 Joseph E. Lowery Blvd. NW Suite 100, Atlanta, Ga 30318 PDF ... http://atlanta.predevcamp.org/2009/08/05/predevcamp-atlanta-details/ From preDevCamp home page: Great news, everybody! Palm has just announced that the WebOS SDK is now publicly available. You can get a copy of it here: http://developer.palm.com/ The absence of a public SDK was the biggest risk to a successful preDevCamp… now everybody can use it. Get your coding skills polised… Invite all your ... http://atlanta.predevcamp.org/2009/07/16/webos-sdk-publicly-available/ preDevCamp organizers announced August 8th as our camp date and preDevCamp Atlanta is confirmed!  Now that we have a date, we need to get confirmations from Atlantans on who is confirmed to attend. I would like to suggest that we start with a one-day camp (I suggest August 8th from 8:30AM ... http://atlanta.predevcamp.org/2009/06/11/predevcamp-atlanta-on-august-8th-need-help/ Its Official! Palm Pre will be available on June 6th for $199 with Sprint. From: http://tr.im/lLx3 Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced pricing and nationwide availability for the highly anticipated Palm® Pre™ phone, offered exclusively from Sprint. Palm Pre will be available nationwide on June 6 in Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radio Shack, select Wal-Mart storesand online at Sprint.com for $199.99 with a two-year service agreement ... http://atlanta.predevcamp.org/2009/05/19/its-official-palm-pre-on-june-6th/   From O’Reilly Media and Palm: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780596802097 Chapter 7 on Application Services seems to be one of the most interesting one so far.  Topics include: 7.1. Using Services 7.1.1. Service Overview  7.1.2. Application Manager (service that provides functions related to finding and launching applications) 7.1.3. Cross-App Launch 7.2. Core Application Services  7.2.1. Broswer (launch a browser with URL) 7.2.2. Phone (initiate ... http://atlanta.predevcamp.org/2009/05/14/o%e2%80%99reilly-palm-webos-chapter-7-now-available/ From PalmwebOSBlog.com: http://palmwebosblog.com/mojo-sdk/palm-mojo-sdk-emulator-under-linux-screenshots-and-new-info/ What happens when I am approved for the early access? Once you are approved for the early access you will get a username and password to access Palm’s database based on Confluence where you will be able to download the SDK. It seems that some people were able to ... http://atlanta.predevcamp.org/2009/05/11/palm-pre-mojo-sdk-new-screenshots-info/ From O’Reilly Media and Palm: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780596802097 Another insightful chapter on data storage and organization. Topics include: Depot — a wrapper on the HTML 5 APIs for simple object store and retrieval. Cookie — a simplified interface to browser cookies, a single object store for small amounts of data. Book also discusses HTML 5 database objects ... http://atlanta.predevcamp.org/2009/05/10/o%e2%80%99reilly-palm-webos-chapter-6-now-available/ From: http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9766/developers-still-anticipating-a-positive-webos-experience/ ADT surmises that the general consensus amongst the developer is that Palm is back from the brink of oblivion with a compelling, developer-friendly new mobile platform and device. The piece also discusses the various PreDevCamps, which are being formed and operated totally autonomously from Sprint, Palm Inc., or ... http://atlanta.predevcamp.org/2009/05/06/developers-still-anticipating-a-positive-webos-experience/ From O’Reilly Media Inc and Palm: http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9780596802097 Getting more and more of these gems. Here is a brief summary of what Chapters 4 and 5 cover: Chapter 4: Dialogs & Menus Dialogs (Error, Alert, Custom Dialogs) Menus (Menu widgets, Application Menu, View Menu, Command Menu, Submenus) Commander Chain (propagate commands) Chapter 5: Advanced Widgets Indicators that show ... http://atlanta.predevcamp.org/2009/04/29/o%e2%80%99reilly-palm-webos-chapters-4-5-now-available/ From Industry Standard "Palm’s webOS lives up to hype, early developers say": http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/04/17/palm-s-webos-lives-hype-early-developers-say The potential power of webOS lies in three capabilities that Palm has brought together into a coherent whole. First, mobile applications are written entirely in JavaScript, HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, which are technologies that an army of ... http://atlanta.predevcamp.org/2009/04/19/solid-webos-development-strategy-by-palm/