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The other day, the preDevCamp team published our ‘PreView’ map at http://predevcamp.org/preView.html. In this post, I’ll talk about how it was put together.

PreView is a combination of the Google Maps API and the Twitter API. Without wanting to shatter the mystique, I’m going to outline how I set about creating PreView.
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There is a lot of excitement in the mobile development world about the coming of the Palm Pre. Palm’s been doing pretty poorly of late, so the alternate prospects of abject failure (and bye, bye Palm) and glorious success (bye, bye iPhone) has get everyone all of a quiver. The thing is, I’m a big geek… I’m just excited about webOS.
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O’reilly release the first chapter of their new webOS book in the past few days and it has been a welcome island in a sea of tedious rumours. While others may wildly speculate on when the Pre will appear, at least we now have some idea of what it will be running.
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Lot’s of people have been writing about Bespin, including Whurley, and I’ve got to say, I’m not sharing the general enthusiasm for the release.

Don’t get me wrong, I think the idea of a code editor which is inherently connected to the web is a great idea, but let’s not get over-excited about what was presented and what has been promised.
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I saw @mhat‘s tweet today about ‘What language should I learn‘  and it got me thinking about the times I’ve asked that question and how I might answer it. So, @mhat, I’m taking your tweet to be a challenge to write an unbiased and ‘unwrong’ post. To do this, I’m going to give you a history of the languages I have learned.
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