The Palm webOS SDK is Now Open To All. Get Your Mojo On!

Announcing webOSdev I’m very pleased to announce that effective today we are wrapping up the webOS early access program. We are doing this because today we opened up the program to everyone and released our new public developer portal at http://developer.palm.com. This is the culmination of a lot of hard work by a lot of […]

Presentation Done. Thanks to all Who Attended.

My presentation went well, I think. It started a little later than I would have liked, and I didn’t have any water (insane? yes.) but overall it was a lot of fun. People seemed interested, which is the important part. The really interesting news is that the presentation was recorded, so I should be able […]

I Don’t Care About Developers. I Care About Users.

Okay, okay… I’m guilty. The title is provocative and slightly misleading. I do care about developers. Developers are my people and I want nothing but the best for them. That said, when I’m sitting down planning a site, application or component, my first thought isn’t about making things easier for developers. It’s about making things […]

getElementsByTagNameNS. Now I Know. And Knowing is Half the Battle.

Yesterday I was wondering why obj.getElementsByTagName wasn’t working in Safari/WebKit on a tag with a namespace prefix. I wondered, aloud, whether or not it was just something I was ignorant of. It turns out that was the case. Dom Level 2 added new namespace specific methods to search through documents or document fragments for tags […]

Of Interest- the Google Chrome Operating System

Between Palm letting me code directly on a killer handheld device, HTML5 starting to show up in real browsers and now Google saying things like the following [my emphasis], it’s a damn fine time to be coding on the front end: Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and […]