So I'm Patrick,
My first smartphone was the palm pre. Really liked how compact it was, and the operating system. Precentral.net must be the most active forum about webos, because it kept coming up in google when I had a question about webos, so I started using that and checking the blog, so that's why I'm checking tipb now that I have an iPad. Precentral was really good for a time for discovering patches for my phone, cause I like to customize the thing, but I may or may not end up jail breaking my iPad when an untethered 4.2.1 jailbreak is released. Might not though, cause I wish it was as easy as putting webos in developer mode and patching it.
But I'll check up on things in this forum now and then. I love my iPad, and it's all but replaced my general purpose use of my phone and my laptop. I might have to start teaching myself actual code, because the podcast I help with wants to make an iPhone app. If and when we do that, I'd probably go on to write it for iPad, android, webos, and blackberry. Any pointers for newbies in that field would be appreciated!