Today the other shoe dropped. Fortunately it was a soft slipper, not the steel toed boot to the head I had feared. HP is open sourcing webOS. What does this mean? Well, I honestly don’t know yet. There is a huge amount of planning to be done, but it could be the start of something [...]
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Richard Kerris leaving HP for “an opportunity outside”
Hidden Treasure: AppBundler
When working on big projects I often create little projects to support the larger effort. Sometimes these little projects turn into something great on their own. It’s time for me to tell you about one of them: AppBundler. AppBundler is a small tool which packages up Java (client side) apps with a minimum of fuss. [...]
Java + SDL + Avian + webOS = Magically Delicious
Mmmwaa haa haa. It lives! I’ve gotten Java to run on webOS natively with a new set of Java SDL bindings. That means it just *might* time to start a new project. Read on for how it works and how you could help.
webOS Canvas Improvements for the HP TouchPad
Hot on the heels of my Canvas talk at OSCON (which went very well. Much thanks to everyone who attended), I’ve put up a post on the developer blog about the great new Canvas stuff in webOS 3.0. Most importantly, speed has been doubled for certain drawing operations! I’m very proud of the graphics team [...]
Boom. It’s Action Time
The TouchPad is on it’s way to stores, the catalog is full of apps, and Jesse finally went to sleep. It is done. Well, not really done per se. This is a marathon and we’ve only made our first dip in the water. It’s a seven course meal that begins with the first mile. It’s [...]
OSCON and Mobile Portland Trip Report
Greetings Earthlings! Today’s the first day I haven’t been traveling, so I can finally catch my breath and write down some notes. It’s been a helluva week. Last week I drove to Portland for OSCON to give several presentations and be involved in general geekery (if you follow me on Twitter, that’s why you saw [...]
Palm Dev Days Recovery
I’m writing this from a hotel room in SunnyVale, recovering from the tremendous event we put on for our dedicated developers at Palm’s first ever webOS developer event last Friday and Saturday. The turnout was great. Over 100 developers paid their own money to drive, fly, and chopper in to Palm HQ. I taught an [...]
webOS, the OS built from the web
There’s been a ton of talk lately about several mobile operating systems and their problems, such as language restrictions, fragmentation, and anti-competitive practices. It’s never a good idea to talk bad about your competition, so I’ll take this opportunity to simply say a few things about the webOS (the OS that powers Palm’s Pre and [...]
Palm Developer Day and OSCON
A big part of my new job at Palm is education, in the form of tutorials, blogs, and of course speaking at conferences. Two new speaking engagements have recently come up. Palm Developer Day and OSCON. Read on for details.