Palm Developer Podcast 7, talking Ares, is now online 27
The seventh installment of Palm's ongoing developer podcast series is now online, and the subject this time around is the browser-based Ares development tool. Ben and Dion (who helped to create Bespin while at Mozilla, on which Ares is built) sit down with Matthew McNulty, Palm Director of Developer Tools, to discuss the history of the development tool from its inception to its public release and where Palm hopes to take it in the future. The podcast continues (after a somewhat humorous editing gaffe midway through) with McNulty walking us through some of the features in Ares and giving suggestions on how you might include the Ares in your tool chain.
Ares is a fascinating and exceedingly well executed concept, and many a developer (webOS or not) would be smart to catch a glimpse of where development environments will be headed in the future by catching the video after the break.
Source: Palm Developer Center
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I'm officially addicted to checking precentral for news...
me too
Same here, lol. that, and checking the forums. I take it you're just as eager as I am as far as looking for anything related to webOS 1.4.5? :P
shame there is never any news
yeah.... le sigh...
is it just me, or does sound get screwed up half way through?
yea, at 12:35 mark there's a short amount of an 2nd, overlapped, audio track
Fixed at 14:07
its you
audio glitch @ 12:32
i've tried refreshing the page and everything, skip to like 13 minutes.. It gets fixed after a while...
Excellent overview of Ares, now bring on some heavyweight Ares videos.
I love Ares, but I would really love Palm giving some documentation on the widgets, since some of them are very different on how you code the widgets using the regular SDK, and you get to spend a lot of time looking around in forums how to do stuff with the widgets instead of actual development. Only documentation they have is on the regular SDK and Ares' widgets encapsulate a lot of their function and its tricky to figure out how they work.
Ares is great but I agree the documentation is paltry. If this is to take off with newbie coders, then the couple of example won't do. The Help is missing for most of the widgets.
We need more Online Help and more tutorials and samples.
Thank goodness the Dev forum is fairly helpful.
I can never get a scene created with the designer to look quite right. My latest experiment is to work on a regular Mojo application using Ares because I really like the debugger, jslint, log viewer, etc.
notice how once in a while the palm logo in the back changes to hp hahaha.
I found that random monitor flashing the HP and Palm logos amusing too.
i think its funny their using a mac computer WHILE the hp logo flashes in the backround
Love that Pre Central is always on top of things. :-)
I just watched this podcast and I barely understand anything they are talking about when it comes to developing. This tells you that I am just excited when news comes out about webOS. Hopefully they'll announce at least one new smartphone tomorrow with TI's OMAP4. That processor is a beast.
I don't think Visual Studio need worry just yet! ;)
flashhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh???????????
I hate you 'flash' people. I really do.
How come he's not using a HP laptop? Anyway I'm still hopeful with these guys at Palm and HP. Yeah! bring it on...
Yeah! It's like showing the Coke warehouse and everyone around is drinking Pepsi on their lunch break.
I dont no what this is about.. but all i see is a POS mac... so it must be about itunes sync or something gay
get a new laptop buddy
It bugs me how they have to rehearse the whole thing before actually pulling the whole thing off. I wish they did it like in engadget where they just tell the guest the "things" they will talk about and then come prepared with as much info as possible...