Testing the limits of our English-indoctrinated brains here at PreCentral is the latest support document released by Palm. It’s the user guide for the Palm Pre 2 and webOS 2.0, and as you’d expect for a device that has thus far only been released on SFR in France, it’s written in French. We’re picture people anyway, so it’s a good thing that the user guide is filled to the brim with graphics relating how to do all of the gestures we’ve come to love, add Synergy accounts, download apps, perform Just Type searches, connect to your computer, make calls, and, well, do everything else with the Pre 2. As best as we can tell, there isn’t anything we didn’t already know about webOS 2.0 or the Pre 2 revealed in the 282-page (yikes) guide. Check it out for yourself, and then prendre un siège au café pour un cappuccino et un croissant.

Source: Palm; Thanks to palealeguy for the tip!

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Palm has gone to great lengths to make developing for webOS as easy as possible, what with Mojo apps based on web technologies and the PDK making it easy as pie to bring C/C+ apps to webOS. The Palm Developer Relations team has also made great strides in improving the documentation for webOS development, but sometimes there are tips and tricks that only a seasoned developer can provide.

That’s where the webOS 101 wiki comes into play. Palm launched pointed the way to the webOS 101 yesterday. WebOS 101 is a community effort launched by Roy Sutton, laying the foundation for the webOS developer community to build a set of developer documents that makes sense for them. The focus of the wiki is broad: they wants to see documents built for programming tools and languages, concepts, and best practices for both Mojo SDK and PDK development. To get the ball rolling there’s a list of 147 pages they’d like to see written by the community, though we’re sure there are plenty of other articles developers have their eyes on composing.

As the Just Type and Synergy plug-ins Palm unveiled for webOS 2.0 put the onus on developers to make the chat and search they want to see happen, webOS 101 is encouraging developers to build the better documentation that they keep asking for. Who’s in?

CORRECTION: Palm has chimed in to let us know that webOS 101 actually is not a Palm creation. But it’s still something that they thought highly enough to give prominent position on the Palm Developer Center community page, alongside Palm’s own developer forums. So really, we guess it’s even cooler that it’s a community effort – we like that kind of stuff here!

Source: webOS 101; Via: webOSdev on Twitter

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