Why Yahoo’s BrowserPlus has a long way to go
Friday, June 6th, 2008Yahoo recently announced BrowserPlus, a browser-plugin based runtime that enables web applications to “break out of the browser”, and offer functionality typically reserved for desktop applications. While not entirely ready yet, a preview release of BrowserPlus demonstrates building some common applications purely in HTML/CSS/JavaScript, including an IRC client, a drag-and-drop photo uploader and a JSON AJAX request inspector.
With BrowserPlus, Yahoo wants to make web apps “break out of the browser”, bridging standard web technologies with OS APIs and bringing web apps a step closer to desktop apps. However, the approach isn’t at all new; Gears (formerly Google Gears) did the same with local storage for web …
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Goosh: Google From The Command Line
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008I love the command line.
Sure, the WIMP paradigm brought the personal computer out of obscurity and into the hands of less technical people. But if you ever need to find out what’s really going on, there’s only one answer — cast aside the pretty icons, dropdown menus, tabs and OK/Cancel buttons and head straight for the command line.
The power of the prompt is unparalleled, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re running Windows, Mac or UNIX/Linux. From the command line, you can monitor system processes, poke around in directories that are …
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@media 2008: From Scaffolding Or From Scratch?
Saturday, May 31st, 2008I was possibly a little brighter eyed than many attendees this morning as I had missed the @media party in order to take my daughter to see the musical Wicked …
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@media2008 Day One
Friday, May 30th, 2008The @media 2008 conference is held in the South Bank Centre which is a wonderful location for any visitors to London. We enjoyed our morning stroll along the Thames past the London Eye to get from our hotel to the venue.
The opening keynote was from Jeffrey Veen, I was pleased to actually get to his talk this year as two years ago I missed it, due …
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@media 2008: Exploring The Alternative Web
Friday, May 30th, 2008The @media 2008 conference is held in the South Bank Centre which is a wonderful location for any visitor to London. We enjoyed our morning stroll along the Thames past the London Eye to get from our hotel to the venue.
The opening keynote was from Jeffrey …
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15 Million Reasons Why Twitter Sucks…
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Or does it?
Throw the question “What do you think of Twitter” to a room full of geeks and you’ll soon realize that Twitter’s one of those unique creations that you either love to death or just can’t stand hearing about. There’s no fence sitting when it comes to Twitter!
Recent suggestions that they just scored $15 Million in additional VC funding got me thinking - are these Venture Capitalists crazy or is there something in this thing called Twitter?
Here’s my take on it…
Twitter is nothing more than a waste of bandwidth, and here’s …
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For Sale: Web Application - Unused
Thursday, May 29th, 2008It seems to me that web applications market is heading for its very own dot com-esque bust. The basic ingredients are all there, VCs investing huge amounts of money in start ups. A general air of: if you build it, they will come. Then (of course) Google, Yahoo! or Microsoft will buy it. Underlying all the hype there seems to be an increasing number of start-ups going to the wall. Why? A few of the reasons (IMO) are:
they are incredibly …
Threading in JavaScript
Thursday, May 29th, 2008JavaScript is continuously updating itself with functions that ensure better web development. Popularly used in an Ajax based websites and applications, JavaScript might be a little bit challenging for developers but it has the functions that comes with JavaScript is worth it. Among the new functions released for JavaScript is threading. It is a very promising …
The Conversation Is More Important Than The Topic
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008In a meeting here at SitePoint HQ the other day, we were discussing blogs—what were our favourites, what makes a blog successful … Someone in the room made the comment that the conversation is more important than the topic—a statement that is certainly true for a sustained community and a sensible goal for most blogs to aim for.
Only yesterday this point was reinfoced (to an extreme, one might say) when the prolific Michael Arrington posted to his TechCrunch blog a post with a one-word …
Adobe Flex/AIR Article Competition: And The Winners Are…
Monday, May 26th, 2008Our competition to write articles about Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR has come to a close, and we’ve selected our winners.
We were amazed at the quality of entries that we received, and deliberated for some time before choosing our winners.
Articles were judged on the following criteria:
English: How strong a command of the English language did the author have? How well did they explain difficult concepts to the reader?
Technical: Were the concepts and techniques described best practice? Did the sample code run successfully?
Educational value: How useful were the concepts taught in the article for a reader? How good a foundation was laid for the user to begin developing with the technology on their own?
Interestingness: I think Flickr might …
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