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Tuesday, 23 September 2008
9 Steps to Context-Awareness
Richard Smith, John Boxall, Igor Faletski et al · We talk about context a lot here at MobScure and today we’re outlining some of the first steps for making your web presence more context-aware (and by consequence, more usable on mobiles!). Here we go: Device: present supported capabilities only. In a perfect word, all devices will have sensors, 3G internet and Flash support - but for the next few years it won’t be the case. Hide or disable un... Read More »
Monday, 22 September 2008
PhoneGap: “AIR for the iPhone”
Ajaxian News · Dave Johnson calls PhoneGap "AIR for the iPhone" because this nice little hack, first created at an iPhone BarCamp, wraps the Web view with a container. This container gives the view access to APIs available on the device, that may not be available yet via WebKit alone. AIR provides a similar container for Flash and Ajax content on the desktop. PhoneGap is a free open source development tool and f... Read More »
Friday, 19 September 2008
Namespaces, Microformats, RDFa, HTML, XHTML
David Gratton, Rob Linton et al · We were recently at Yahoo’s Hack Day and one of the presentations I attended was by the SearchMonkey guys. What piqued my interest here was that the teaser paragraph talked about augmenting search results with the semantic web — e.g. Microformats, XSLT, RDFa, et al. Hmmm, sounds applicable… After it was finished I spoke with Evan Goer (who co-presented the session along with Paul Tarjan) ab... Read More »
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Planet Vancouver 2.0 Digest Week 37 Starting September/14
Vancouver Ajax, Mobile Web, Web 2.0 (3.0) Forum · Hello, The Planet Vancouver 2.0 collects Ajax, Mobile Web, Web 2.0 (3.0) news, postings, discussions from in and around Vancouver. Get your feed included. Send a blurb about your site highlighting some Ajax, Mobile Web, Web 2.0 (3.0) stories to this list. The latest postings include: * Useful Javascript References // Dethe Elza ... Read More »
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Useful Javascript References
Dethe Elza · I've been getting more Javascript questions, both at work and elsewhere, so I thought I'd post some of the resources I rely on, in case it is helpful to others, and so I have something to point folks to. Mozilla Developer Center is hard to navigate or search to find useful information, which is too bad, because there are some gems hidden away in it. One of the ones I come back to again and again i... Read More »
Saturday, 06 September 2008
MobileCampVancouver2 Q&A w/ Brock Whitten on PhoneGap (JavaScript iPhone Access), Objective-C, the F!?#!ing NDA and More
Vancouver Ajax, Mobile Web, Web 2.0 (3.0) News · Welcome back to the MobileCampVancouver2 Speakers Q&A Series. Today let’s welcome Brock Whitten (a.k.a. Sintaxi). We currently have geo location, vibration, and accelerometer all working and camera support is extremely close. Next we are adding network detection and address book access. We have also been flirting with SQLite and offline support. Ideally, PhoneGap is also going to be ported to Bla... Read More »
Thursday, 04 September 2008
Mobile Camp Vancouver 2 is this Saturday at WorkSpace
Roland Tanglao · Ooops forgot to blog about Mobile Camp Vancouver 2 unconference (topics and sessions decided the day of, all welcome from users to hard core devs to artists and sales and marketing folks!) Here are my session ideas session on SIFT Mobile Muse social media aggregator for SMS, video, photos, etc Bug Labs - my Bug arrives in late September, app brainstorming session BIKUX - linux stamp/... Read More »
Wednesday, 03 September 2008
Google Chrome Web Browser
Benjamin Keen · I know there’s a million posts / news articles on this, but I just read Google’s comic (yup, a comic) outlining their approach at building a new, modern web browser, and frankly I was blown away. A post seemed in order. Chrome’s HTML rendering is handled by Webkit, like Safari and Adobe AIR. They wrote a totally new javascript virtual machine called V8, which compiles code as machine code,... Read More »
Tuesday, 02 September 2008
Chrome, V8 and Strongtalk
Avi Bryant · There's lots to like about Google's new web browser, Chrome, which was released today. When I read the awesome comic strip introduction yesterday, however, the thing that stood out most for me was in very small type: the name Lars Bak attached to the V8 JavaScript engine. I know of Lars from his work on Self, Strongtalk, HotSpot and OOVM, and his involvement in V8 says a lot about the kind of l... Read More »
Friday, 29 August 2008
Best West Index - Top Facebook Applications (Summer Edition 2008) - And the Winner is…
Vancouver Ajax, Mobile Web, Web 2.0 (3.0) News · Welcome to the summer edition of the “Best of the West Top Facebook Application Index” compiled to highlight the most popular social web services designed or developed in Canada’s West (including in and around the Greater Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, etcetera metros). The index uses the new monthly active users metric published by Facebook plus includes the number of reviews and fans. Due to... Read More »
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Meet the Godfather Behind Mob Wars’ (Real) Money: Super Rewards
Inside Facebook News · Popular Facebook game Mob Wars has recently been rumored to be the most profitable app on Facebook. While that will never be known for sure, one thing is clear: Mob Wars is making a lot of cash. Probably in the tens of thousands of US dollars per day. How? One large reason: Mob Wars has baked incentivized CPA offers from Super Rewards directly into the game, and expertly tuned its virtual economy t... Read More »
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Ubiquity Illustrates Impressive Thinking and the Need for Attribution Microformat
David Gratton, Rob Linton et al · The net was a buzz with with Aza Raskin’s post on Ubiquity: An experiment into connecting the Web with language. Ubiquity is an experiment two parts. It’s both an interface and a development platform. Ubiquity 0.1 focuses on the platform aspects, while beginning to explore language-driven methods of controlling the browser. There is some really deep thinking on the entire user experience of USI... Read More »
Saturday, 23 August 2008
Gerald’s Top Ten Firefox Add-ons (2008 Edition) - Tell Us Yours
Gerald Bauer · Last summer I posted Gerald’s Top Five Firefox Add-ons the first time. Time for an update! Here are my top ten Firefox add-ons I use: Category: Add-ons for Everyone FullerScreen - Really full screen mode & more for web slide shows. No JavaScript required! Better Gmail 2 - Hide spam count, add row highlights and much more. Category: Add-ons for Power Surfer Gears - Full-text search, offline sy... Read More »
Friday, 22 August 2008
Build One to Throw Away
Tim Bray · This is a maxim from Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man-Month. These days I’m thinking it’s the single most important lesson there is about software. It’s been brought rudely home to me by my recent work on mod_atom, whose design is terribly simple; but I still got the first cut wrong in important ways. What I Got Wrong mod_atom is about as simple as an AtomPub server can be; all the entries a... Read More »