A Recap of recent Developers Events
Posted: 27 Oct 2010 04:06 PM PDT
The last couple of months have been a busy time of travel for me, Ben Combee, and the HP Palm Developer Relations team.
Our tour started in mid-September with web 2.0 Expo in New York City. Our former directors, Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer were on a panel on the future of web browser, while HP Palm had a presence on the vendor floor where Kevin Hague, Lisa Brewster, and I talked about our system and phones, the Mojo JavaScript framework, and the Ares web-based development environment to attendees during breaks.
While everyone was in NY, we were able to take a break from the Expo and head over the Brooklyn Bridge to attend the NY JavaScript Meetup. Ben & Dion did a version of their “Why the Web Will Win” talk while everyone enjoyed food and drinks at the reBar gastropub. It was a great opportunity to meet with several webOS developers already in the area and expose our ideas and platform to some of the brightest members of New York’s technology crowd.
Our next event was in early October in beautiful Austin, Texas with Game Developer Conference Online. I attended as part of their iPhone/iPad Gaming Summit to be on a panel on Alternative Mobile Platforms. I was on stage with representatives from Aurora Feint (who recently launched support for Android), Sony, Microsoft, and Cydia (the app store for jailbroken iOS devices). I emphasized how many iOS developers have been able to quickly port over applications from Apple’s mobile OS to our system using the PDK’s support for OpenGL ES and I stressed how the Palm App Catalog provides a great way to gain access to a growing user base.
October finished with the first Mobile Apps World conference in London, England. This was an event gathering application developers with brand managers, media buyers, and corporate executives, and HP Palm was there as a gold sponsor. I gave a keynote address on the advantages of using HTML and JavaScript to build applications for a wide range of devices, and then followed up with an afternoon of hands-on sessions where I took developers through building an app using PhoneGap for both HP webOS and Google’s Android operating system. Look for a screencast soon with this material.
While in London, I also took the opportunity to visit with some of our London partners, including Quickoffice, who’ve done a great job building a first-class hybrid document viewer app that we’re including in webOS 2.0, and Ideaworks Labs, the creators of the Airplay SDK that allows building cross-platform C/C++ apps for webOS and many other systems.
Our next big event is the HP webOS Developer Day in New York City. If you can get up to New York on November 19th and 20th, it will be time well spent. We’re going to be going deep into some of the new features of webOS 2.0 while also featuring many of the cross platform technologies that can make you successful as a mobile developer and expose your apps to a huge audience of users.
