6 Weeks Later, A Palm Pre Recap
The Palm Pre has been available for about a month and half now and in that time, people have been busy digging under the hood, going as far as to create a whole slew of home brew apps (which at this time number more than what is available in the App Catalog).
In that time, I have been posting quite a bit about my new phone and thought I would put together a summary post of what has been posted so far here and on FriendFeed.
- Palm Pre First Impression and Notes - Bought the Pre on Launch Day (which is something that I never do but I skipped a generation of Treos for this phone). Recorded the purchase experience (smooth!) as well as initial digging around the Pre.
- Explorations inside the Palm Pre - A look inside the OS that powers the Pre after rooting.
- How to generate SSH keys using the Palm Pre - If you want to be able to ssh *from* the Palm Pre to a remote machine.
- Pushing to multiple repos using git - I created a second webOS git repo on github for testing. This is identical to the gitorious repo and you can pull from or fork the github copy if you prefer using github.
- My Palm Pre exchange experience - Unfortunately, the first Pre was “Oreo-ing” badly and started having reset / screen problems.
- Pockets, A TDD/BDD framework for webOS development - Created by Pivotal Labs (makers of the Pre Twitter app, Tweed), they are releasing this to help with development.
With the general release of the Palm Pre SDK yesterday, I expect to see a flood of new apps soon (both home brew and in the App Catalog). If you are interested in playing with this, the best resources I have found so far are the Pre Development Wiki and precentral.net. With these two sites, you can easily get started on hacking your Pre. Enjoy!
PS. if you do get stuck, ask the friendly people on IRC at #webos and #webos-internals at irc.freenode.net.
