Posts tagged javascript
Google Chrome: Is it the next generation of Browsers?
Sep 2nd
I don’t have an answer to this, it’s too early (we don’t even have a screenshot of it). But I strongly suggest to take a look a the Google Chrome Comic Book: a very new, fresh, funny and precise (!!!) way to introduce an incoming software.
They discuss a lot of different topics:
- Problems they wanted to solve
- Performance
- Process Isolation
- Javascript VM and Performance
- Sandboxing
- Phishing and Malware
- UI principles
Very interesting. And, again, very innovative.
Ah, the Rendering Engine they chosen is… WebKit (what a surprise!!! 
) and… it’s fully open source.
An early leaked screenshot follows. More >
HTML 5: I still love the Web
Nov 22nd
Who knows me better, knows that I love the Web. So, I was seeking for info about the next generation of web.
What I mean with “next generation”? I mean “what we can expect to see in the future”.
And the best place, is to go were people (with good skills) go and start to discuss and brainstorm about this stuff.
I found a very interesting pre-RFC: HTML 5 Working Draft.
All the amazing and cool stuff are coming are there and is pointless for me to report them (just one: Client-Side Persistency!!! COOOOL!). But it’s interesting to see WHO is working on this. I mean, who is ALREADY thinking about what we will have in the “next World Wide Web”.
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Editor:
Ian Hickson, Google, ian@hixie.ch© Copyright 2004-2007 Apple Computer, Inc., Mozilla Foundation, and Opera Software ASA.
You are granted a license to use, reproduce and create derivative works of this document.
Ian Hickson. He is famous in “our” world but I never spent a minute taking a look to his CV. And his “poor” (for a person that does what he does) web site.
Tripping around his web page, he is doing his favourite work… in the best place possible to do this (Google).
Besides, another interesting thing to notice is the name of the companies working with him (or, better, that seems to own this VERY IMPORTANT document): Apple, Mozilla and Opera. Why Google is missing if the they pay the Employee?
Bejeweled for Free
Jul 31st
This version of Bejeweled is available for free as Ajax implementation. And it is a good way to waste your work-time .
Originally thinked to run on iPhone, it is quite good also on Firefox (I haven’t tried on IE).
Enjoy!
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What? Sorry, if you, like me until this morning, don’t know what the hell is this game, here is a piece of the dedicated Wikipedia page:
History
Initially it was created by PopCap Games as a web-based Flash game called Diamond Mine. The game was an incredible success for PopCap, which had only formed in 2000. PopCap created partnerships with well established Internet gaming sites such as Microsoft Zone to host Bejeweled as well. The game has also been ported to other platforms, including Bejeweled Deluxe for Microsoft Windows. Astraware produced Bejeweled for PDAs on the Palm OS, PocketPC and Smartphone platforms. They also released Bejeweled Deluxe on the Xbox as a downloadable Xbox Live Arcade game. On September 12, 2006, it was released as one of the first games downloadable from the iTunes Store for the Apple iPod.
Recently, skill games like Bejeweled have been retooled for head-to-head gaming sites like SkillJam and WorldWinner. Players can play in “vs.” games for cash prizes or join tournaments.
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Source, TUAW.
Google London Open Source Jam
Jul 20th
Edit: Added a link to the Google Group of the project of Mal about the sync-stuff. It’s name is PySync.
Yesterday I went with a collegue (thank you Serage, particularly for the pictures ) to this event that the Google’s London Office sort twice (or more?) a year. Google London Open Source Jam.
I went for one main reason and other two minors (and… I didn’t know that the most important was another one ):
- The Topic
- To take a look to the Google Office in London (very very close to Victoria Station)
- Free Food (very nice pizza )
(What’s the “main one” is up to you… 
).
The Topic
This time, our topic of interest is Mobile.
- Linux on phones
- JavaME vs JavaSE vs .NET CF vs Native
- Browser technologies: AJAX and Flash
- Building native apps that port to multiple architectures
- Open platforms (e.g. OpenMoko)
- Cross platform testing
- Making the most of mobile hardware (camera, voice, bluetooth, GPS, etc)
- Phone bling
Detronizator now on WordPress 2.1.3
Apr 3rd
Post of April the 3rd, 2007 (today) taken by the WordPress.org official blog:
WordPress 2.1.3 and 2.0.10
By Matt. Filed under Security, Releases.We have a security update release now available for both the 2.1 and 2.0 branches of WordPress now available for immediate download. This update is highly recommend for all users of both branches.
These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Concha for their help with reporting issues in this release.
As an update to the systems issue we had last month, we have taken dozens of additional precautions with the servers and systems that run WordPress.org and they appear to be working well, despite hundreds of hack attempts after we publicly disclosed there had been a problem. We are also now aggressively monitoring all downloads for any changes or modifications, and we are confident the same type of problem won’t happen again.
If you are on 2.1, it’s useless to do backups or something like it: the wp-admin/upgrade.php script will not touch the DB. So… update peacefully (and pleasantly). For the others still on 2.0.x: why not upgrade now?
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