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July 16 — Topics: The webOS Community — Chuq Von Rospach

I’m very pleased to announce that effective today we are wrapping up the webOS early access program. We are doing this because today we opened up the program to everyone and released our new public developer portal at http://developer.palm.com. This is the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of people here at Palm, and I want to be the first to thank them for making this happen.

This is one more step in delivering webOS to all developers and providing the tools they need to build great applications for Palm phones.

Please go register and join us on the new server. For a change this significant, I’m sure there are going to be some rough edges and broken links. If you run into one, please let us know by posting on the new forums. If you have trouble registering or can’t access the forums for some reason then please email me at pdn@palm.com and I’ll work with you to resolve it.

Chuq Von Rospach
Developer Community Manager
pdn@palm.com
http://pdnblog.palm.com

15 Comments

  1. Nice job, folks!

    Pam Deziel – July 16, 2009 @ 6:09 am – Permalink

  2. Yes! Thank you! An excellent decision!

    Here’s to the forthcoming wave of excellent Pre apps!

    Phil Gross – July 16, 2009 @ 6:28 am – Permalink

  3. Congratulations! And thank you.

    Palm Pre Apps – July 16, 2009 @ 6:38 am – Permalink

  4. The activation email you receive when you sign up to download the sdk has a broken activation link.

    Here is a copy/paste of the relevant parts of the mail:

    Many thanks for your interest in the Palm® Mojo™ Software Development Kit (SDK). We have validated your email address, and you can now download the SDK.

    To do so, click the following link, or copy and paste the URL below into the address field in your browser:

    #INTERPRET:EVENTVAR:TOKENTEXT#

    On the page that appears, you’ll be able to select the version of the SDK that’s right for you. You’ll also see a list of software required to use the SDK; be sure to install it first. Also, follow the links to installation information for specific instructions to install the SDK. You should also familiarize yourself with the material on the webOSdev web site, which will help you develop your webOS applications. Use the webOSdev forum to tell us what more you need.

    Jason Southwell – July 16, 2009 @ 6:48 am – Permalink

  5. Congrats, Palm! This is a huge step.

    Ken – July 16, 2009 @ 7:51 am – Permalink

  6. Great news! But unfortunately registration doesn’t work yet. It quite complicated to follow such link :)

    ***

    We have validated your email address, and you can now download the SDK.

    To do so, click the following link, or copy and paste the URL below into the address field in your browser:

    #INTERPRET:EVENTVAR:TOKENTEXT#

    Dmytro Pohromskyy – July 16, 2009 @ 8:32 am – Permalink

  7. Novacom package link from http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1585 page is not valid (The requested URL /sdk-beta/release20090701/palm-novacom_0.3-svn177284-hud9_i386.deb was not found on this server.).

    vuk – July 16, 2009 @ 9:02 am – Permalink

  8. You. Are. The. MAN! Awesome, and thank you so much!

    JayeRandom – July 16, 2009 @ 11:43 am – Permalink

  9. Ok, so since I can’t find a way to login on the site/forum of WebOS dev site, I’m posting it here…

    When registering to download the SDK, I entered my firstname, lastname and email, that’s it.

    When trying to login it to post a message on the forum, it asks me for a:

    - login
    - password

    => where do I get these ? :)

    Guess there is something wrong there…

    warpdesign – July 16, 2009 @ 12:29 pm – Permalink

  10. Thank you. There’s a problem with the community/forum link – an “infinite loop” error.

    Palmdoc – July 16, 2009 @ 2:04 pm – Permalink

  11. YESSSSSSS!
    THANK YOU!

    I’ve been developing an app without benefit of offically having access to the SDK or API docs.
    And yes, it does work already on my Palm Pre.

    I’ve made plenty of progress (got a working app) but it was slow going, even with the rough cuts version of the O’Reilly book.

    I now have answers to many of the questions I’ve had, and I can tell you the release of the SDK/API docs will *greatly* accelerate my development efforts.

    By the end of this weekend, I should have a working app ( hint – it’s a WebOS optimized port of a commonly known game )

    So, here’s a question I can’t seem to find the answer to on the developer site:

    Who do I contact and how do I get in the pipeline for releasing my first app through the Palm App Catalog?

    SJM – July 16, 2009 @ 5:28 pm – Permalink

  12. Took some time, but now things look good. A few broken links, but I was up and testing the emulator with my own application in about an hour.

    Raju Bitter – July 17, 2009 @ 1:04 am – Permalink

  13. Registration worked great for me, and I already have started work on my Pre apps. I’m sure that there will be need for updates to the SDK, but great job getting it into the hands of your developers!

    Duane – July 17, 2009 @ 3:47 am – Permalink

  14. Hurray! Now please make customization of text message sounds, please!

    Marcus – July 19, 2009 @ 9:15 pm – Permalink

  15. The main page for webOSdev includes a link to preview Chapter 1 of Mitch Allen’s book, “Palm WebOS”. The links for pages 2 and 6 appear to be unique, yet the result is the same “User Interface” page. Are we missing the “real” topic for page 6?

    Phil Deem – August 22, 2009 @ 1:53 pm – Permalink

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