OK, so I haven’t posted for a good long while and some people think it means that I have halted all development for webOS – I haven’t. Gemini File Manager is still under active development and I’m also working on a number of other projects for webOS and other platforms. With that cleared up, I’ll [...]
It’s been a stressful 24 hours, and I don’t want to recap on it, nor do I wish to dwell on any of the rumours or conjecture regarding the future of webOS. Instead I want to talk about my future in mobile development. In particular, I want to talk about Gemini. Gemini File Manager was [...]
My latest app. Check out the details and some screenshots here: Gemini File Manager – jnewc.net
Arthur Thornton has written a great preview of the full beta version of Simple FTP Client over at webOSroundup. You can view it here. Enjoy!
It’s been a week and my beta is still not in the Palm beta feed due to technical issues with the submission system. For this reason I have decided to host my own beta feed. With that said I’m pleased to announce that the Simple FTP Client BETA is now available! To install it you’ll [...]
After much consideration I have decided to release a feature-limited version of Simple FTP Client for webOS in the Palm beta app feed. It will hopefully be available some time in the next few hours (but may take longer). Please see the SFC Beta Forums (link below) for more details. Links: SFC Beta Forums (report [...]
Following on from my previous article, here is some more more useful information about the node.js implementation on webOS: the current version number and a list of supported modules: node.js version v0.2.3 events: EventEmitter, Promise path: join, normalizeArray, normalize, dirname, filename, basename, extname, exists, existsSync fs: Stats, readFile, readFileSync, close, closeSync, open, openSync, read, readSync, [...]
The webOS 2.0 (Mojo) SDK has finally been released from NDA but Palm have not to unlock the early access forum to allow new 2.0 developers to benefit from the knowledge of those who have been using it for months now. Even if everyone could access the forum, in it’s current state it is not [...]
I use javascript heavily in web design but the only place I’ve ever used it more is in webOS development. Arrays play a huge part in data management for this kind of development and so it’s a little frustrating that they only have basic functionality within javascript. The code below is a set of useful [...]