Today, Palm opened up their developer program to all who are interested.  What does this mean to you?  If you’re a typical user the upshot of this announcement is that more developers will now have (official) access to the tools for creating applications that run on the Palm Pre.  If you’re a developer who wasn’t in the Early Access program then it means you will now have access to the resources necessary to begin developing applications.

This is very big news for the Palm Pre community.  One of the complains often leveled against the Pre has been the lack of software available for download from the App Catalog.  Unfortunately, in the short term, we won’t be seeing too many new applications there as Palm has said that it will be the Fall before they will be approving new applications.

If you’re interested in developing for the Pre head over to the Palm webOSdev site and register.  I suspect that we’ll probably also see a good bit of homebrew coming out soon, though the developer agreement seems to prohibit releasing software through other channels than the App Catalog.