Palm to host WWDC meetup June 9th 14
Palm has posted to their Developer Center that they're hosting a 'San Francisco PDK Party' on Wednesday, June 9th from six to nine at 111 Minna Gallery in, well, San Francisco:
Palm and Appcelerator invite you to a co-hosted night of networking. Enjoy hot food and cold drinks on us. Mix it up with your fellow developers, check out our demos, or watch video turntablist Mike Relm take you on a trip through sight and sound. Don’t miss this fun event—and a chance to hear about porting your apps with the Palm® webOS™ PDK.
Would-be attendees should be sure to hit up rsvp@palm.com to secure a spot.
The event, not coincidentally, comes right around the time of Apple's WWDC event. Given that the PDK is now officially part of Palm's full SDK for webOS and given that many iPhone apps can be ported to the PDK in 'a matter of days,' the timing and placement of the event is either fortuitous or opportunistic, depending on your point of view.
Appcelerator, the cohost, is interesting because to our knowledge they have been focusing on other platforms to date. However their core business model is to offer a cross-platform development environment that creates native apps that look and feel like native apps on each platform - much of which is based on HTML, CSS, and the like. In other words, a pretty darn good match for a party focused on porting apps to webOS.
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Whoa, co-hosted with Appcelerator.
I wonder if that means Titanium will be supporting webOS soon!
this is so random but everytime I see the "plug" in that picture, it looks like a surprised face for an IM... Lol
+1 on the plug "smiley" lol
new phone announcement imminent?
I'll bet $5 on a new phone announcement since palm has always done something at the same time as apple. Pre launch - right before 3GS. Pixi announcement - right before macbook refresh.
plus the pre (should) have at least be in a yearly product cycle.
Please make an announcement of Sprint Palm C40 probably Pre 2. I will definitely will buy it Im happy with my Sprint Palm Pre but need something newer.
All i care about is Shazam for WebOS. Make it happen devs!
lol agreed about the smiley face plug. =X
I think is just a way to let iphone developers know that they can port apps easily.
If games: using pdk.
If existing apps based on javascript: using appcelerator, phonegap, etc (thats why palm also announced mojo core)
It doesnt make sense to me any kind of hardware announcement there. It is just a way to let iphone devs know that porting apps made with that tech to webOS is almost effortless.
Yowza!!! porting iphone apps! i can live with that :)
Interesting. I was at a tech conference last weekend and attended a session on Appcelerator's "Titanium Mobile" product. (very similar to phonegap) Very cool stuff, but I'm not sure I understand their motivation for integrating with webos. I mean, it probably wouldn't be all that hard for a developer to take their javscript/html/css app they wrote in Titanium to webos since webos "natively" supports those technologies.
This is it. I know for certain they will announce the c40 there.
This is it. I know for certain they will announce the c40 there.
double post ftl