Palm webOS Developer Talk Last Night at Pivotal Labs in San Francisco

Updated on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 6:17PM by Tony Peric

Yesterday, I attended the Palm Developer talk at Pivotal Labs in San Francisco. Several items were up for discussion but the main topic was developing basic for the recently released SDK by Palm. In attendance were, Mitch Allen, CTO for Palm Inc., Jesse Donaldson, Sr. Manager for Mojo Framework and Davis W. Frank of Pivotal Labs. The goal of the event was to bring developers for the webOS closer to Palm in a quaint setting to get some feedback from both sides and discuss the implementation of the Mojo framwork.

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On Thursday, June 11, 2009, Palm held an event in San Francisco at the Thirsty Bear Brewing Company. The event was an attempt to grab some of the WWDC attendees and app developers so they could ask Palm's webOS engineers questions directly about the OS.

Palm wasn't the only one there this week throwing out an invite to the attendees, Symbian the world's largest mobile operating system vendor, got into the mix by having it's own "Hack-a-thon". The hack-a-thon attendees, who will be able to code for Web runtime, Python (S60), or Flash Lite, were given a free Nokia 5800 for showing up. Google gave away the HTC Magic, unlocked, phones at the Google I/O just weeks earlier. Unfortunately, Palm wasn't giving out their device and I just received my Pre from Sprint on Friday.

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