Palm is gaining the services of Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, said blog entries from both men, who  also have been running the Web site focused on AJAX development and related issues. "We will have the responsibility of the developer experience with Palm. We will be trying to create a rich connective tissue between the company and the Web developer community that we love,"  Almaer said in on Friday.

Palm recently made a splash with the introduction of its device, which leverages the company's webOS software. "I remember watching the Palm Pre coming-out party thinking 'wow.' Palm had bet big," Almaer wrote. "They had bet on the Web platform being the base for their new amazing hardware device and becoming their platform going forward. Given the lead time required to create a device, I was impressed by their forward thinking. Now is the time to knuckle down to create the most amazing developer experience in a mobile environment for you," he said.

While at , the two men worked on .

"What Dion and I started as an experiment to see if we could create a code editor on the Web as responsive as the desktop has turned into a full-fledged project team aiming to revolutionize the way the world writes code," Galbraith said in Friday.