Once again, we want to thank everyone who submitted an app to our Weekly App Hack. This was kind of a tricky one, and we weren’t sure what kind of response we’d get, but you folks don’t disappoint! Our winner this week is… Starter by Marc Chardine of ScienceApps Starter is an app you can [...]
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announcements, open source
February 6th 2012 | Posted by Fred Patton
Editor’s note: Today, we bring you another in a series of regular posts from Sam Greenblatt, the chief technology officer and head of technical strategy for the open webOS project. After catching our breath from the first of many open source releases of webOS, we needed to get back to work to deliver on our [...]
announcements, open source
January 25th 2012 | Posted by Fred Patton
Editor’s note: Today’s blog post comes from Sam Greenblatt, the chief technology officer and head of technical strategy for the open webOS project. He guides the project’s strategy around open collaboration and is responsible for technical engineering. His focus is on the practice of developing webOS with the community, and his approach is founded on [...]
Developing with the webOS SDK, announcements
January 12th 2012 | Posted by Fred Patton
We have just released webOS 3.0.5 as an over-the-air update for TouchPads, and the 3.0.5 SDK is now out of Early Access. Get the latest and greatest here. Highlights include a new Sensor API, the ability to have plug-ins use both processor cores, and improvements to audio and video playback, plus various updates to Enyo [...]
Weekly App Hack, announcements
December 23rd 2011 | Posted by Fred Patton
The App Hack-meisters of webOS Developer Relations will be taking a little break for the holidays. Big thanks to all of you who submitted entries for the “Got Game” App Hack. Keep an eye out for the results. See you in the New Year!
Weekly App Hack, announcements
December 18th 2011 | Posted by Fred Patton
Well, it’s been a pretty exciting week, and we wanted to end on a high note, by announcing the winner of the Mapping App Hack. As you may remember, the challenge was to map data published by the Liquid Robotics PacX Wave Gliders project. So, without further ado, we are pleased to announce that the [...]
announcements
December 12th 2011 | Posted by Fred Patton
We know a lot of you are looking forward to a new edition of Pivot. As we continue to look ahead at the direction webOS will be heading under the new Open Source strategy, we have decided to put Pivot on hold. We also know that featuring apps is useful both to consumers and developers. [...]
Weekly App Hack, announcements
December 9th 2011 | Posted by Fred Patton
Well, yes we’re a bit late getting this week’s challenge out, but we think you’ll like the challenge anyway, and in the spirit of holiday generosity, we’ll even give you a little extra time to work on it. This week, we’re throwing you another open-ended challenge. We want a game. Your choice of game, but [...]
announcements, open source
December 9th 2011 | Posted by Fred Patton
Well, you’ve been waiting for the big webOS announcement, and today we’ve made it. This morning, HP announced that webOS will be going open source with the resources of HP behind it. The Developer Relations team is very excited by this announcement and what it means for the future of webOS, and for you, our [...]
Weekly App Hack, announcements
December 2nd 2011 | Posted by Fred Patton
Well, we’re not sure whether it was anticipation of a turkey and stuffing induced coma or being overwhelmed with pre-holiday jitters, but darned if we didn’t forget to post the winners of the last App Hack. Sorry about that! You may recall that the theme of the week was “Three”, and we challenged developers to [...]