HP webOS Developer Blog

As we mentioned just a short time ago, O’Reilly and Palm are collaborating on a new book on developing Palm webOS applications with JavaScript.

We promised we’d tell you when some of the supporting resources around that announcement are now live.  So here you go.

• Register to attend the webcast with Mitch Allen on February 25th, at 10 am PT.
• Get access to the O’Reilly Rough Cut, so you can view the first chapter now, but also additional chapters as they come out.

We’re really excited to share the news that O’Reilly Media is publishing a book about developing for Palm’s new mobile platform, titled “Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo Framework”. Since the book is being written by Palm VP and Software CTO Mitch Allen and the webOS development team, it will be provide a great inside and in-depth perspective on creating killer apps for webOS devices like the upcoming Pre.

And since the book is being published by O’Reilly, the definition of “book” is a whole lot more than the traditional one. You can read the first chapter right now for free at http://developer.palm.com.  Plus, in the coming hours, the first chapter will also be available on O’Reilly’s Rough Cuts service.  Rough Cuts lets you purchase the book in its unfinished form and essentially read it as its being written.  We’ll provide a link to that when it’s live on Monday.

More?  How about a free webcast for developers featuring Mitch Allen.  O’Reilly and Palm are teaming up on February 25 (10 a.m. PT), to provide a preview of the webOS development environment, and give you a great chance to fire away with questions and comments for Mitch.   The link to register for that webcast will be live very soon, and we’ll pass that along to you as well as soon as its ready.

So feel free to post your comments about this on this blog, because we definitely want to know what you think. We read (and love!) them all, even if we can’t always respond or answer all your questions.