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.

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

Bug Fixes

• false notification reports
• timeline marker not being preserved when Load More is tapped
• loading spinner hanging when minimizing during a load
• preserve tweet position on refresh
• ....

Features

• configure notifications: individually turn on/off DM, home, replies
• Tap header: option to jump to top/bottom of timeline
• When loading a timeline, start with marker (if present)
• a few more....

We expect this release to hit App Catalog early part of this week, July 6.

As discussed in the last release notes, the Palm Mojo SDK doesn't provide a general mechanism for uploading photos. However, email supports attachments, so you can email photos from the phone.

We started to develop an intermediary service that would accept emailed photos, then upload these to TwitPic, TweedPhoto, etc., and return the urls to Tweed. Then Tweed could post to Twitter with the photo links.

Unfortunately, this takes more time than we would like. (There are latency, scalability and general reliability issues.)

So, we are going to start with a much simpler option -- the Compose Tweet screen will create an email on behalf of the user for posting tweets via photo services that support email. (Tweed will have a preference for storing the email address/pin for the service the user chooses.)

There are some issues with this simplified solution:

• "in reply to"/conversations will not be supported
• no DM support
• in simple terms, email tweet posts are just posts, not replies

We will have this solution later this week.