Meeting review
Our very first WebOSBoston meeting was a great success, with 9 persons attending. It was a nice, loosely structured informal meeting that was VERY productive. Thank you ALL who attended, we had a great discussion. After this, Eric Marthinsen of Agile Commerce came and spoke about recent development findings and hurdles and general programming practices. We looked at using the emulator, Ruby, scoping of functions and 'this' within a function, playing audio sounds from within a game, custom style sheet elements, log levels and much more. We were glad to have him come!!
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September 9th, 2009
This meeting was great. Eric Marthinsen who developed some of the Palm Pre apps available with Palm’s debut showed us some useful methods. It wasn’t one of those presentations where the speaker is just trying to promote himself or his company, he willingly offered information to help us.
The Pre platform, I can see beating iphone, because it is easier to design on for anyone who knows some CSS, XHTML and javascript. Code made for the web could in some ways be repurposed or at least a whole new skill set isn’t required to design an app.
Please, can anyone design an app that would help non-programmers like me design apps. I will gladly pay for the application and I know other designers who would also.
Another app that would be helpful is the icall app available on the iphone and pc. It allows users to make free phone calls using wifi so they don’t have to use up precious sprint minutes.