Remember the book we told you about a couple weeks ago written by Mitch Allen, Palm’s Chief Technology Officer? If not this is a reminder that you can Download Chapter 1 for Free. And better yet, Chapter 2 is now available as well!

Titled Application Basics, it’s shows the reader how to make their first application by putting some of the basic concepts behind Mojo and webOS into play:

If you’re new to JavaScript, HTML or CSS, you may want to familiarize yourself with their fundamentals before tackling the next few chapters. Even so, the material presented here is fairly basic and you don’t need to be a web development expert to build applications for webOS.

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to build a basic webOS application starting with the installation of the SDK. You’ll create a new application project, customize the critical application components and develop the first parts of the News application, which will be used throughout the book as our sample app. Along the way, we will go into detail on how to use the framework and apply the different APIs, widgets and styles.

This time there are no freebies, however and you’ll have to buy the book – you can do so here.

As you can see the publication date looks to be August 15th, 2009 but the rough cut version allows you to get the chapters now and we all know that getting a headstart on programming for a brand new platform can lead to huge advantages.

[Via PDN Blog]