Palm's Hot Apps Promotion, and the Zen of Servlets

I'm excited to show you all one of the things I've been working on since I joined Palm. Palm Hot Apps Today we launched a new microsite called Palm Hot Apps. This is a leader board for our Hot Apps promotion, where the top selling & downloaded apps compete to earn bonuses between $1,000 and $100,000 dollars. Since this is a competition we wanted to have a constantly updated site that shows who's winning right now and who might be winning in the future. If you are a JavaScript developer, or interested in mobile app development in general, or just a Palm enthusiast, you'll definitely want to check out the site. As of this posting you can earn a bonus in the entry level bracket with only $500 in sales for a paid app, or 12k downloads for a free app (see the site for full details). The competition is still wide open, and webOS is really, really easy to develop for, so I urge you to build something cool and compete. Since this is a Java blog you might be interested to know that I wrote the entire backend for the microsite in Java. I'm also happy to say that I didn't use any frameworks at all. There's a certain sense of zen peace that comes from using pure JSPs and servlets. Where the code really is a direct expression of what is really happening underneath. I went with what my amazingly talented engineer friend Brian Goetz has often said: build the simplest thing that could possibly work. In th...

Date: April, 12 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2010/04/11/palms-hot-apps-promotion-and-my-life-servlets

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