O’Reilly Media And Palm Announce Release Of First Official Resource For webOS Programming

The Palm webOS platform and the Palm Pre mobile phone have been greeted with much enthusiasm at the 2009 MWC. Now there is even more good news from these quarters. O’Reilly Media and Palm, Inc. have today announced that they will be collaborating in order to create the very first official resource for programming the very new webOS platform. “Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo(TM) Framework”, written by Palm Vice President and Software Chief Technology Officer Mitch Allen, this is being edited and distributed by O’Reilly Media.

The very first chapter of the Rough Cuts Version of this book is now available online for free download from the Palm Developer Network at http://developer.palm.com. It is also expected to be available on the O’Reilly website on Monday by 10:30am ES. Programmers who want to learn to develop applications on webOS can now download the Rough Cuts version as a PDF. They can also participate in an ongoing live discussion about the book and the technology. The final book will be published following the release of Mojo, Palm’s webOS SDK (Software Development Kit).

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