Dean Stringer's List: web-development

"New Cisco enterprise instant messaging (IM) and presence solutions powered by Jabber XMPP help people quickly find, connect and collaborate with colleagues inside and outside their organization."

"In order to do anything useful with variables in the way of comparison, calculation, concatenation, or even bit manipulation, we need to see how actionscript operators work, so here are some examples"

Pull is being positioned as a business guide to the emerging Semantic Web. It has similarities to Creating Killer Web Sites, which caught the wave of an emerging big trend of the mid-90s (web site design) and became a bestseller. Siegel is attempting to catch a second big online wave, with the Semantic Web in 2010

Cory Doctrow goes at it on the new iPad, with about 500 replies to the post so far, some interesting comments on flash-vs-html5 and video on the web

ToolManTims guide to setting up a new remote git repository

"Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing. "

"Recent commentary on this blog has suggested that our use of Flash on BBC iPlayer and across BBC Online in general, betrays our commitment to open standards. Is this a reasonable assumption? I do not think so. "

"ARIA is an emerging specification from the W3C and is an accessibility effort that a number of companies support. ARIA is designed to provide accessibility at a technical level—what you might call “programmatic accessibility”—where it doesn’t already exist."

"What is going on with Silverlight? Microsoft's browser plugin was conceived as a lightweight, cross-platform version of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the .NET application framework for desktop applications introduced in Windows Vista. Silverlight was energetically developed to compete with Adobe's Flash, there was talk of Silverlight on Intel's Moblin Linux, and a Symbian port was produced."

"IE10 Platform Preview 1, available for download today is the first step in delivering the next wave of progress in native HTML5 support. Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimized for the operating system on your device. We built IE9 from the ground up for HTML5 and for Windows to deliver the most native HTML5 experience and the best Web experience on Windows. IE10 continues on IE9’s path, directly using what Windows provides and avoiding abstractions, layers, and libraries that slow down your site and your experience: "

Brendan Eich, inventor of JavaScript, discusses his co-talk/appearance at JSConf on the topic of CoffeeScript, ES(Ecmascript).next, the future of Harmony

"You probably know Grant Skinner from all his amazing Flash work. Recently Grant has been experimenting a lot with HTML5 and he also worked on PiratesLoveDaisies.com, a tower defense game built with HTML5 and Javascript. At FITC in Amsterdam I asked him about his experiences with HTML5 and his thoughts on the HTML5 vs Flash “war”."

"Yes, says eEye Digital Security, which today focuses a wrathful gaze on WebDAV (short for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning," the IETF protocol that allows computers to edit and manage files collaboratively on remote Web-based machines). "WebDAV is bad," says eEye CTO Marc Maiffret, summing up the findings in the research report the security firm put forward today that argues no matter where it’s used, WebDAV is so bad for security, companies should make every effort to turn it off."

"Step aside, Google Docs, there's a new JavaScript tour de force in town. I'm talking about the latest project from programmer Fabrice Bellard, a JavaScript program that emulates an x86 processor fast enough to run Linux in a Web browser. The JavaScript PC Emulator can do the work of an Intel 486 chip from the 1990s, but doesn't have a built-in floating point unit for numeric processing, Bellard said. Happily, Linux itself can emulate that, and a version of the operating system's core--2.6.20--runs on the foundation. "

"After more than 3 years of development and discussion by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Group on the subject, the draft specifications document for HTML version 5 will now be moved into Last Call status after a 63 to 2 vote, with 3 abstentions. "

The Last Call stage will accept new bug reports for 10 weeks, starting on May 24th, then will have those bugs fixed by the end of January.

"As a core component of the Adobe Flash Platform, Adobe Flash Player allows you to make your web content contextually relevant and reach more users across a wide spectrum of Internet-connected devices, including smartphones, tablets, netbooks, TVs, and PCs. New device-ready features take advantage of native device capabilities that include support for touch, gestures, input models, accelerometer, browser, and additional purpose-built hardware to bring unprecedented creative control and expressiveness to the device browsing experience."

"WebORB for PHP is an advanced remoting and data management solution that is ideal for customers that are looking for FREE open source solutions. Since the product is open source, there is only one product edition, which is WebORB for PHP version 3.6. The following is what you can expect to receive out-of-the-box from WebORB for PHP:"