On Tuesday, July 21st, we're hosting "An evening with Palm's webOS" here at Pivotal Labs. Mitch Allen, Software CTO & author of the forthcoming book Palm webOS, and Jesse McDonald, Sr. Manager, Mojo Framework, of Palm, Inc., and I will be speaking. There will be some good introduction material from Palm and I'll be talking about Pivotal's experience developing for this new platform.
It's no secret we're fans of Palm's webOS and it's Mojo framework. We've been quoted often over the past few months about how productive the development environment is, especially for those familiar with web development tools & technologies. Over the past few months we have developed four applications that are currently available in Palm's App Catalog: Mobile by Citysearch, AP News, LikeMe, and Tweed, a client for Twitter.
We previewed Pockets, a set of code for helping with test-driven development, and Jasmine, our JavaScript testing framework in an O'Reilly Media webcast this week- it was well attended & received. Thanks!
Now that Palm has opened up SDK access to everyone, it's a great time to come learn what the fuss is all about and talk one-on-one with Palm engineers & Pivots about how to get started with webOS and Mojo.
Please register for & come to An evening with Palm's webOS. See you Tuesday!
I gave a webcast this morning on unit-testing on Palm webOS, using Pivotal's Jasmine and Pockets framework.
Here are the slides.
Here is a link to the webcast.
A new version of Tweed is available! (v.0.9.10)
Bug Fixes
- if you view a timeline, it will clear any pending/open notification dashboards, for that timeline
Features
- photo integration: configure service of choice and Tweed will auto-generate an email for posting
- optionally configure sound and/or vibration for notifications
Photo Integration Notes
You can use any photo service that supports email for posting, such as TwitPic. The photo service needs to follow the following guidelines:
- Subject Line is tweet text
- To: address is for posting
For services such as posterous.com or twitgoo.com, you will need to register your sending email address (one being used on your Palm Pre).
Let us know your feedback either @tweed on Twitter, tweed-support@pivotallabs.com or http://tinyurl.com/satisfaction-tweed
You can change your photo settings from the AppMenu, Preferences & Accounts, then tap your account. Then tap the Edit Photo Settings button on bottom of the screen.
Next Tuesday, July 14, at 10pm PST, Chris Sepulveda from Pivotal Labs will be broadcasting an O'Reilly WebCast on automated unit testing with the Palm Mojo SDK. Developer testing is at the heart of Pivotal Labs's development practices, and we're excited to be involved in bringing testing to Mojo development. The WebCast will cover the following:
- Introduce BDD & Jasmine
- Installing Jasmine & add related code to the app to support BDD
- Discuss how to write a failing test first, then add functionality to make a test pass
- Develop a simple webOS application test first, with the Mojo SDK
There's more information about the WebCast on webOSHelp.net.
Date: Tuesday, July 14th at 10 am PT
Price: Free
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes
To register: http://oreilly.com/go/palmmojo
A new version of Tweed is available! (v.0.9.8)
Bug Fixes
- memory leak with notifications
- timeline marker not being preserved when Load More is tapped
- loading spinner hanging when minimizing during a load
- preserve tweet position on refresh
- tweets not always displaying after Load More
- false notification reports
- removed Refresh and Load More from conversation timeline
- notifications stopped when swiping away dashboard with Tweed closed
Features
- simplified notifications: when enabled, they check every 15 minutes, independent if Tweed is open or closed
- configure notifications: selectively configure timelines
- Tap header: option to jump to top/bottom of timeline
- When loading a timeline, start with marker (if present)
- load up to 200 tweets when a marker is present (100 tweets for searches)
- notifications: display badge counter number of timelines with notifications
- notifications: dashboard stack allows users to cycle through all notification timelines
Coming soon...
- photo integration (via auto generated email) -- this week
- configure notifications for bookmarks *
Let us know your feedback either @tweed on Twitter, tweed-support@pivotallabs.com or http://tinyurl.com/satisfaction-tweed
