There’s more video being officially released by Sprint of it’s 2009 Open Developers Conference.  We’ve already seen a video of Rick Boatright from the webOS Internals group presenting on the second day of the event, and now the entirety of Palm’s presentation on the first day is available online.  A word of caution: the following is likely to put some to sleep, but I don’t think that I’m alone in thinking that it’s pretty damn cool to see some of the core people from Palm its webOS development team really drill down into what makes their product tick.

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The Sprint Open Developers Conference wrapped up today, and some interesting things came from the 3 day event. Among them? Ben and Dion detailed Palm’s upcoming distribution model, Google and Sprint announced the availability of Google Voicemail and "conditional free call forwarding" on it’s network, and Palm used a Pre running on the AT&T network.  

Here’s another thing to add to the list of really neat things that came from the conference: showcasing just how easy it is to create and add new functionality to webOS, Palm Engineer Matt Hornyak, the lead engineer on the phone app and the creator of the clock app, added additional snooze functionality to the clock app allowing for the modification of the length of the snooze alarm.  He was able to cook up the code and add it to the application in all of about 5 minutes, while live in front of 500 people.

For those interested in seeing how it’s done (or those brave enough to try it out themselves),  the wizardry involved is detailed in length over at the Palm Developer Network Blog, and it’s my guess we’ll see this updated clock functionality in an upcoming release of webOS.

Thanks to AKITAYO for the tip! 

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