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Why Congress is way richer than you [infographic]
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Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
A List Apart31 Jan 2012 | 4:00 amWith a mobile-first responsive design approach, if any part of the process breaks down, your user can still receive a representative image and avoid an unnecessarily large request on a device that may have limited bandwidth. But with several newer browsers implementing an “image prefetching” feature that allows images to be fetched before parsing the document’s body, some of the web's brightest developers are abandoning responsive images in favor of user agent detection, at least as a temporary solution. For us standardistas, UA detection leaves a bad taste in the mouth. More… -
Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color
CSS-Tricks6 Feb 2012 | 9:57 amInteresting question: css3 speech bubble question: for the "triangle"'s border color, how can I set it to whatever its parent div's bgcolor is automagically? — Jin Yang (@jzy) February 1, 2012 By "css3 speech bubble", Jin means using a pseudo element on a container to add a little pointer arrow (triangle). Not really CSS3, but that's pedantic. Let's say that pink color isn't practical to set in an external CSS file. Perhaps is a user setting, or perhaps its set dynamically somehow. <div class="speech-bubble" style="background: pink;"> I like bananas, because they have no bones. -
Easy Script Loading with yepnope.js
Nettuts+8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amOfficially released by Alex Sexton and Ralph Holzmann in late February of 2011, the yepnope.js resource loader features asynchronous, conditional loading and preloading of both JavaScript and CSS resources. This makes managing dependant, conditional code a breeze. March of 2011 This nifty resource loader, which is only 1.6KB minified and gzipped, is now bundled with Modernizer and is great for loading polyfills, preloading or “priming” the users cache, or as a simple asynchronous resources loader / filter! For those of you unfamiliar with polyfills, they are essentially plugins,… -
Where's My Water? - Disney
iTunes Store: Top Paid Apps8 Feb 2012 | 3:49 pmWhere's My Water? Disney Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: September 22, 2011 ARE YOU READY FOR A COMPLETELY NEW CHALLENGE? TEST YOUR SKILLS WITH “CRANKY’S STORY”! MEET CRANKY!Cranky is the toughest alligator around and he has worked up an appetite from sabotaging Swampy’s water supply. He eats anything, especially all the rotting and disgusting junk found in the dumps and sewers. Cranky will not eat vegetables however, and now his food is covered with vegetable-like algae. Use the dirty purple water to clean off Cranky’s plate so he can eat! MEET SWAMPY!Swampy the Alligator…
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Holy Kaw!
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Why Congress is way richer than you [infographic]
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The bookcase that’s always ready for more
8 Feb 2012 | 4:19 pmThe thing about bibliophiles is that, before you know it, the bookcase is full and it’s time to drag in a few more boards and cinder blocks to accommodate the newcomers. With the REK, such worries are a thing of the past, as the system accordions out when more space is needed and collapses into a handy rectangle when it’s time to pack up shop and move on to greener pastures. Unfortunately, the price is listed as “on request” meaning the 99% is out of luck, but perhaps it’ll inspire you to hit the workshop for a little DIY action if you can drag your nose out of… -
How Harvard spends student tuition [infographic]
8 Feb 2012 | 3:24 pmVia Online Universities. (H/T Muhammad Saleem) The scoop on education. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
Lizard shortage offers rare evolution test
8 Feb 2012 | 1:01 pmA devastating 2004 hurricane that wiped out a Caribbean lizard population offered an unprecedented opportunity to put an evolutionary theory known as the “founder effect” to the test. The founder effect describes the loss of genetic variation that occurs when a new population is established by a very small number of individuals from a larger population. “Founder effects are very hard to study,” says Thomas Schoener, a professor of evolution and ecology at University of California, Davis and a co-author of the study. “One must be in exactly the right place at the… -
Petty controversy: The Oscars diss the Muppets
8 Feb 2012 | 12:48 pmAcademy Awards producers outrage Kermit lovers with a proposal to shorten the telecast by scrapping Best Original Song performances It's an odd year for the Oscars' Best Original Song category. Thanks to the Academy's ever-changing and increasingly labyrinthine rules, only two songs earned nominations. At first, critics weren't too troubled by the abbreviated list, since it included the comically existential Muppets ballad "Man or Muppet," written by Flight of the Conchords' Bret McKenzie and performed by Jason Segel and Walter the Muppet. But alas, producers are planning to scrap the Best…
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A List Apart
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Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
31 Jan 2012 | 4:00 amWith a mobile-first responsive design approach, if any part of the process breaks down, your user can still receive a representative image and avoid an unnecessarily large request on a device that may have limited bandwidth. But with several newer browsers implementing an “image prefetching” feature that allows images to be fetched before parsing the document’s body, some of the web's brightest developers are abandoning responsive images in favor of user agent detection, at least as a temporary solution. For us standardistas, UA detection leaves a bad taste in the mouth. More… -
Pricing Strategy for Creatives
31 Jan 2012 | 4:00 amStrategic pricing helps your brand and helps you to make more money. Issuing a price is like handing out a business card—it’s a great branding tool, but be careful about what it says to your market. Beginning relationships with customers at a high price makes the statement: “we’re good at what we do and we know it.” Fighting with a competitor over a low price says “I’m uncertain about my abilities, so I’ll take what I can get.” Failing to use a considered pricing policy will leave you treading water in a sea of design mediocrity, allowing you to just stay afloat while you… -
Building Twitter Bootstrap
17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 amBootstrap is an open-source front-end toolkit created to help designers and developers quickly and efficiently build great stuff online. Its goal is to provide a refined, well-documented, and extensive library of flexible design components created with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for others to build and innovate on. Today, it has grown to include dozens of components and has become the most popular project on GitHub, with more than 13,000 watchers and 2,000 forks. Mark Otto, the co-creator of Bootstrap, sheds light on how and why Bootstrap was made, the processes used to create it, and how it… -
An Important Time for Design
17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 amDesign is on a roll. Client services are experiencing a major uptick in demand, seasoned design professionals are abandoning client work in favor of entrepreneurship, and designer-co-founded startups such as Kickstarter and Airbnb are taking center stage. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that design has a massive role to play in the evolution of the web and the next generation of web products. The result, says Cameron Koczon, is that designers have now been given a blank check—one that lets web designers band together as a community to change the way design is… -
A Pixel Identity Crisis
17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 amThe pixel has long been the atomic particle of screen based design: a knowable, concrete unit of measurement. But layouts based on the hardware pixel are fast becoming an endangered species. Even the introduction of a new, W3C standard reference pixel, although it promises stability in the long-term, can't help us navigate the current chaos. Consider the two "standard" pixel definitions and 500 "standard" viewports your user's Android device may support. To create designs that transcend platform differences—the promise of the web and standards—you must normalize pixels across devices.
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CSS-Tricks
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Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color
6 Feb 2012 | 9:57 amInteresting question: css3 speech bubble question: for the "triangle"'s border color, how can I set it to whatever its parent div's bgcolor is automagically? — Jin Yang (@jzy) February 1, 2012 By "css3 speech bubble", Jin means using a pseudo element on a container to add a little pointer arrow (triangle). Not really CSS3, but that's pedantic. Let's say that pink color isn't practical to set in an external CSS file. Perhaps is a user setting, or perhaps its set dynamically somehow. <div class="speech-bubble" style="background: pink;"> I like bananas, because they have no bones. -
A proposal to drop browser vendor prefixes
3 Feb 2012 | 1:49 pmInteresting idea by Felipe G on using a new at-rule, @-vendor-unlock, to tell the browser to use it's experimental implementation of any particular property, rather than using a vendor prefix on that property. Unfortunately at this point, even if you could get all the browsers on board, you'd need to use this and vendor prefixes to get deep support, which makes the problem worse. What we really need is for all browsers to implement auto-updating so eventually "supporting older browsers" is something we can look back and laugh at. Direct Link to Article — PermalinkA proposal to drop… -
Digging Into WordPress 3.3
3 Feb 2012 | 1:30 pmDigging Into WordPress (the book) is now updated to v3.3. Includes new chapters specially on what's new in 3.2 and 3.3, all the rest of the chapters tightened up and refreshed, better internal hyperlinking (in the PDF), and more. It's a free update (PDF) to all previous buyers. New print copies are on order and will be available soon. Direct Link to Article — PermalinkDigging Into WordPress 3.3 is a post from CSS-Tricks -
ShopTalk Episode 4
2 Feb 2012 | 5:50 pmDave, Jonathan Longnecker, Nate Croft and I talk shop. Topics include website building apps, where to start designing, when not to design for modern browsers, and more. Sponsored by LessAccounting. Direct Link to Article — PermalinkShopTalk Episode 4 is a post from CSS-Tricks -
New Poll: In The Next 10 Years, Will We See CSS Competitor?
2 Feb 2012 | 11:23 amWhat do you think folks? Is a new language going to come along in the next ten years that deals with layout / style / design and unseat CSS? Or at least give it a run for its money? You should vote not based on if there will be any attempt at it, which there certainly will be and already has. But instead if you think one of those attempts will actually make it into native support by a browser with significant market share and see a significant number of web workers building web sites in it. Poll is in the sidebar (or, down pretty far if on a small screen). New Poll: In The Next 10 Years, Will…
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Nettuts+
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Easy Script Loading with yepnope.js
8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 amOfficially released by Alex Sexton and Ralph Holzmann in late February of 2011, the yepnope.js resource loader features asynchronous, conditional loading and preloading of both JavaScript and CSS resources. This makes managing dependant, conditional code a breeze. March of 2011 This nifty resource loader, which is only 1.6KB minified and gzipped, is now bundled with Modernizer and is great for loading polyfills, preloading or “priming” the users cache, or as a simple asynchronous resources loader / filter! For those of you unfamiliar with polyfills, they are essentially plugins,… -
Turbocharge Your Website With Memcached
6 Feb 2012 | 9:49 amYour latest PHP/MySQL website is finally online. And it’s awesome. But it’s not as fast as you want it to be, because of the many SQL queries running every time a page is generated. And above that, you have the feeling it will not scale well under heavy loads. And you are most likely right. In this tutorial, we will see how you can greatly improve your website’s responsiveness, and help it scale to handle many simultaneous visitors, by implementing a cache layer between your code and your database. The good news is it is fairly easy, and can be done in a few minutes! -
JavaScript Testing From Scratch: New on Premium
5 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pmThis likely isn’t the first tutorial on testing that you’ve ever seen. But perhaps you’ve had your doubts about testing, and never took the time to read them. After all, it can seem like extra work for no reason. This tutorial (with screencasts) intends to change your views. We’re going to start at the very beginning: what is testing and why should you do it? Then, we’ll talk briefly about writing testable code, before actually, you know, doing some testing! Let’s get to it. Become a Premium member to read this tutorial/screencast, as well as hundreds of… -
Best of Tuts+ in January 2012
2 Feb 2012 | 7:37 amEach month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start! Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials Create a Pimped Out Truck Using Photoshop and Point and Shoot Photos Making modifications to your car or truck in Photoshop can be a lot of fun. In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to create a pimped out truck modification using photos taken with a simple point and shoot camera,… -
Learn jQuery in 30 Days
31 Jan 2012 | 8:47 pmSometimes, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by how much there is to learn in this industry. If jQuery happens to be on your personal “need to learn soon” list, then I’m happy to announce my new course: “Learn jQuery in 30 Days”. If you’ll give me fifteen minutes a day for the next month, I’ll help you become a jQuery pro – and it’s free! How Does it Work? Sporadically, your skills will be put to the test, when you take the interactive quizzes! Once you enroll (free) via email, each day, you’ll receive a 10-15 minute video…
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iTunes Store: Top Paid Apps
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Where's My Water? - Disney
8 Feb 2012 | 3:49 pmWhere's My Water? Disney Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: September 22, 2011 ARE YOU READY FOR A COMPLETELY NEW CHALLENGE? TEST YOUR SKILLS WITH “CRANKY’S STORY”! MEET CRANKY!Cranky is the toughest alligator around and he has worked up an appetite from sabotaging Swampy’s water supply. He eats anything, especially all the rotting and disgusting junk found in the dumps and sewers. Cranky will not eat vegetables however, and now his food is covered with vegetable-like algae. Use the dirty purple water to clean off Cranky’s plate so he can eat! MEET SWAMPY!Swampy the Alligator… -
Tank Hero - Clapfoot Inc.
8 Feb 2012 | 3:49 pmTank Hero Clapfoot Inc. Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: June 01, 2011 Battle through dangerous arenas and become the Tank Hero!Fast paced 3D tank action on your iPhone. Take out your enemies with cannons, heat seekers, grenades, and howitzers. Battle against cunning enemies and become the Tank Hero!Played by over 5 million users around the world, Tank Hero is now available for iOS devices with new and improved graphics and gameplay. FEATURES:* OpenGL 3D graphics with realtime shadows and dynamic lighting* 120 levels spanning three unique worlds* 3 game modes: Campaign, Survival, and… -
Scramble With Friends - Zynga
8 Feb 2012 | 3:49 pmScramble With Friends Zynga Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: January 04, 2012 It's on SALE! LIMITED TIME ONLY!Not ready to commit? Try Scramble With Friends Free!Play the deluxe version of Scramble With Friends™! ★ EARN TOKENS TWICE AS FAST! ★ NO ADS!Everyone's favorite word game is back, with all new features to enjoy with your friends! Scramble With Friends™ joins the world's most popular word-game franchise...if you like Words With Friends™ and Hanging With Friends™, you're gonna love this one! Scramble With Friends™ is the fast, fun game of finding… -
Ice Rage - Mountain Sheep
8 Feb 2012 | 3:49 pmIce Rage Mountain Sheep Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: December 14, 2011 ★★★★★ New game from the developers of Bike Baron, Death Rally and Minigore. ★★★★★ Enviro-Bear and John Gore as guest stars! #1 Sports Game in US, Canada, Finland and 21 other countries!Gameplay video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkFP2C512Y4A Tribute to Hat TrickIce Rage brings the classic 8-bit hockey experience to the 21st century! We dare you to take on John Gore, or challenge your friend in the most intense single-device multiplayer you've ever experienced.There are 9 different human… -
Angry Birds - Clickgamer.com
8 Feb 2012 | 3:49 pmAngry Birds Clickgamer.com Genre: Games Price: $0.99 Release Date: December 11, 2009 Use the unique powers of the Angry Birds to destroy the greedy pigs' defenses!The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the greedy pigs who stole their eggs. Use the unique powers of each bird to destroy the pigs’ defenses. Angry Birds features challenging physics-based gameplay and hours of replay value. Each level requires logic, skill and force to solve.If you get stuck in the game, you can purchase the Mighty Eagle! Mighty Eagle is a one-time in-app purchase in Angry Birds…
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Top Favorites
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Woow! It worked! They gave me my revenue :)
8 Feb 2012 | 10:10 amWoow! It worked! They gave me my revenue :) http://survey.qr55.com - that's the place i'm talking about. Or go to http://realincome.qr55.com where you could make even more. From: LindaBaskinak Views: 31 2 ratings Time: 00:41 More in Howto & Style -
501 - HeadRush (Ft. Belle Humble)
8 Feb 2012 | 8:05 am501 - HeadRush (Ft. Belle Humble) Download 320kbps MP3 radio mix of HeadRush here: http://on.fb.me/waXxv6 Kicking off 2012 in style, Never Say Die are setting their standards high for the year ahead. Finland's finest musical maestro teams up with NSD's resident songbird Belle Humble to bring you the anthems that are 'HeadRush' and 'Falling Skies' Become a fan of 501: http://www.facebook.com/501dubz Become a fan of Belle Humble http://www.facebook.com/pages/Belle-Humble/10643443028 Become a fan of Never Say Die: http://www.facebook.com/wewillneversaydie Download 501 DJ… -
[1337 GAMEPLAY] CAMPUS PARTY!
8 Feb 2012 | 5:03 am[1337 GAMEPLAY] CAMPUS PARTY! SORTEIO DO CORE i7 -- http://campus.firstplace.com.br -- http://twitter.com/cauemoura QUER TUITAR ESTE VÍDEO? -- http://clicktotweet.com/aNfnf From: leetgameplay Views: 303 6442 ratings Time: 04:38 More in Gaming -
GIVEAWAY Final Fantasy & Soul Calibur (xbox 360) - 100,000 subs!
8 Feb 2012 | 3:13 amGIVEAWAY Final Fantasy & Soul Calibur (xbox 360) - 100,000 subs! For owners of the XBOX 360 You can win a copy of Final fantasy XIII-2 and Soul calibur 5 all you gotta do is: Like, favorite and subscribe! Also tell me WHY YOU DESERVE THIS GAME! (and which game u want) example: Final fantasy XIII-2 i deserve this shit cus im fat THAT EASY! giving away these games on PS3 in 2 days! winners are announced then too! BYE From: chonnygame Views: 7832 2815 ratings Time: 02:03 More in Gaming -
FIGHTING THE ELEPHANT - Ray William Johnson Video
7 Feb 2012 | 7:21 pmFIGHTING THE ELEPHANT - Ray William Johnson Video THANX FOR SUBSCRIBING TO MY VIDEOS!! :D MY TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RayWJ MY FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/raywilliamjohnson MY GOOGLE+ http://Gplus.to/RayWJ STORE: http://www.raywj.com/shop/ WEBSITE: http://raywj.com =3 Tshirt Girl: http://twitter.com/TheKylaLeon EQUALS 3 IN SPANISH: http://www.youtube.com/IgualATres ********************************************************************** Here are the links to the full reviews of the content discussed in this video. Please don't harass the video creators or send them hate-messages.
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Top News
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'Oldest living thing on earth' discovered - Telegraph
7 Feb 2012 | 6:55 amAncient patches of a giant seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea are now considered the oldest living organism on Earth after scientists dated them as up to 200,000 years old. -
My wife and 1 year old and i went to dinner and this is what it said on our check. - Imgur
7 Feb 2012 | 6:12 pmImgur is used to share photos with social networks and online communities, and has the funniest pictures from all over the Internet. -
Apple’s Vice President of iPhone and iPod engineering leaves the company
7 Feb 2012 | 9:26 amApple's Vice President of iPhone and iPod engineering leaves the company. Why? We don't really know. Where did he go? Likely Nest. -
Groups: Congress Should Scrap SOPA, PIPA and Start Over
7 Feb 2012 | 10:38 amWith Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), Congress needs to take a breath, step back, and approach the issues from a fresh perspective - About 14 million people participated in Jan. 18 online protests against the two bills... The bills would have harmed free speech, innovation, cybersecurity and job creation ... Senator Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and lead sponsor of PIPA, has indicated he wants to push forward with legislation -
The 25 Best Sitcom Couples
6 Feb 2012 | 12:19 pmWe asked and you voted. Here are the top 25 sitcom couples of all time…
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Most Viewed
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FIGHTING THE ELEPHANT - Ray William Johnson Video
7 Feb 2012 | 7:21 pmFIGHTING THE ELEPHANT - Ray William Johnson Video THANX FOR SUBSCRIBING TO MY VIDEOS!! :D MY TWITTER: https://twitter.com/RayWJ MY FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/raywilliamjohnson MY GOOGLE+ http://Gplus.to/RayWJ STORE: http://www.raywj.com/shop/ WEBSITE: http://raywj.com =3 Tshirt Girl: http://twitter.com/TheKylaLeon EQUALS 3 IN SPANISH: http://www.youtube.com/IgualATres ********************************************************************** Here are the links to the full reviews of the content discussed in this video. Please don't harass the video creators or send them hate-messages. -
LINDSAY LOHAN AS TALENTED AS PROP 8 IS CONSTITUTIONAL!!
7 Feb 2012 | 2:52 pmLINDSAY LOHAN AS TALENTED AS PROP 8 IS CONSTITUTIONAL!! Check out today's SourceFed!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWIosqbTnzc&list=PL8F30E917C5D2E4D4 FACEBOOK: http://on.fb.me/mqpRW7 TWITTER: http://Twitter.com/PhillyD Philly D OFFICIAL APP: http://bit.ly/aIyY0w ---------------------------- ALL of today's Stories: Motorcycle Circus Crash: http://gizmo.do/wtFsMD Lilyhammer Netflix Launch: http://gaw.kr/yIhQQb Machete Sequel?? http://bit.ly/x8GcAC New Spiderman Trailer: http://chzb.gr/zL5dwi Best. Bet. Ever: http://bit.ly/wuK5Pf Lindsay Lohan Photos: http://gaw.kr/xAWWoc Jessica… -
God Bless America Trailer HD
7 Feb 2012 | 11:41 amGod Bless America Trailer HD Starring: Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr, Larry Miller, Melinda Page Hamilton, Geoff Pierson Director: Bob Goldthwait Studio: Magnet Releasing Genre: Comedy / Drama Rating: NR Running Time: 1 hour 39 minutes Release Date: May 11, 2012 Official Site: http://www.facebook.com/godble... SYNOPSIS: Loveless, jobless and possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and decides to off the stupidest, cruelest and most repellent members of society with an unusual accomplice: 16-year-old Roxy,… -
Giants Parade FAIL. What Giants player do you want to see? ... SANCHEZZZZZZZZZ!
7 Feb 2012 | 9:34 amGiants Parade FAIL. What Giants player do you want to see? ... SANCHEZZZZZZZZZ! Girl says the Giants player she wants to see is Sanchez ... SMH SHE FOLLOWS IT UP WITH SAYING PEYTON LMAOOOOO DISGRACEFUL. I guess when you win the Superbowl everyone becomes a fan. From: WHYTEWUNDER Views: 503215 507 ratings Time: 00:26 More in Sports -
نائب يرفع الأذان أثناء الجلسة ومشادة مع الكتاتني
7 Feb 2012 | 5:55 amنائب يرفع الأذان أثناء الجلسة ومشادة مع الكتاتني النائب ممدوح إسماعيل يرفع آذان العصر داخل قاعة…
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iTunes Top 10 Songs
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7. Ass Back Home (feat. Neon Hitch) - Gym Class Heroes
8 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amThe Papercut Chronicles II Gym Class Heroes Release Date: November 11, 2011 Total Songs: 11 Genre: Pop Price: $7.99 Copyright 2011 Fueled By Ramen LLC for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. -
1. We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe) - Fun.
8 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amWe Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe) - Single Fun. Release Date: September 20, 2011 Total Songs: 1 Genre: Alternative Price: $1.29 Copyright 2011 Fueled By Ramen, LLC for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. -
2. Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson
8 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amStronger (Deluxe Version) Kelly Clarkson Release Date: October 21, 2011 Total Songs: 18 Genre: Pop Price: $12.99 Copyright 2011 19 Recordings Limited under exclusive license to RCA Records -
9. Good Feeling - Flo Rida
8 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amGood Feeling - Single Flo Rida Release Date: August 29, 2011 Total Songs: 1 Genre: Pop Price: $1.29 Copyright 2011 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States -
3. Sexy and I Know It - LMFAO
8 Feb 2012 | 4:45 amSorry for Party Rocking (Deluxe Version) LMFAO Release Date: June 21, 2011 Total Songs: 15 Genre: Pop Price: $7.99 Copyright 2011 Interscope Records
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iTunes Store: Top Free Apps
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Ski On Neon - Esoteric Development
8 Feb 2012 | 3:46 pmSki On Neon Esoteric Development Genre: Games Release Date: September 20, 2011 “Download the FAADChat App by @FreeAppADay.com, make new friends and vote together to make the best paid apps like "Ski On Neon" FREE!" ✭ Over 1 Million downloads in the U.S.A and over 1.5 Million worldwide!✭✭Thanks to everyone for making Ski On Neon # 1 in the U.S.A, France, Canada and many many more.✭ ✭✭✭✭✭ WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING (or TWEETING)! ✭✭✭✭✭➤ "Freakingly addictive! Ski on Neon is the most addictive game I’ve played lately." Ruben Berenguel of… -
Save The Pencil - Perfect Dimension
8 Feb 2012 | 3:46 pmSave The Pencil Perfect Dimension Genre: Games Release Date: December 08, 2011 • TiPB App of the Week - "Save the Pencil is adorable and fun. A fantastic puzzle game."• App Gamer - "A game that will test your brain and dexterity. Its uncluttered graphics and cheery nature help to make this a puzzle you'll be coming back to."• App Addict - "Cute & Fun."• iPhones.ru - "The conclusion is simple - if you like puzzles Save the pencil is must buy." • App Advice - "A good fit for puzzle fans."The world could be about to change. The future of… -
Temple Run - Imangi Studios, LLC
8 Feb 2012 | 3:46 pmTemple Run Imangi Studios, LLC Genre: Games Release Date: August 04, 2011 "In pretty much every treasure hunting adventure movie there’s one specific scene in which the plucky hero finally gets his hands on the treasure but then has to navigate a maze of booby traps in order to get out alive. Temple Run is this scene and nothing else. And it’s amazing." - SlideToPlay.comFrom the makers of the award-winning best-seller Harbor Master® comes the most exhilarating running game on the App Store. Test your reflexes as you race down ancient temple walls and along sheer cliffs. Swipe to… -
iMob 2 - Addmired, Inc
8 Feb 2012 | 3:46 pmiMob 2 Addmired, Inc Genre: Games Release Date: January 26, 2012 Download FAADChat by @FreeAppADay.com, make new friends & vote together to feature best apps like "iMOB 2"!iMOB 2 – the Biggest, Most Intense & SOCIAL MMO RPG game on the iPhone & iPod touch!!★★★★★ Be the iMOB BOSS of your Online Family, Alliance, City or the entire World!★★★★★ Most SOCIAL & CONNECTED game! – Best Action Strategy MMO RPG game, In-Game Social Community, Chat, Messaging & Friend-feed, Engrossing Gameplay & Intense PvP Action LIVE, REAL-TIME !★★★★★… -
Cut the Buttons - Open Name Ltd
8 Feb 2012 | 3:46 pmCut the Buttons Open Name Ltd Genre: Games Release Date: December 14, 2011 Download the FAADChat App by @FreeAppADay.com, make new friends and vote together to make the best paid apps like "Cut the Buttons" FREE!★★★ FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME ★★★A snip here, a cut there: avoid the bolts and please beware! Now make a trim, its time to start, make sure to keep your scissors sharp! “Beautiful . . . the innovative gameplay of Cut the Buttons raises games for iOS to a completely new level.” – iphone4c.com, China “The game which will be at the top list of games for iOS in…
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Sencha Blog
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Dive into DataView with Sencha Touch 2 Beta 2
8 Feb 2012 | 9:00 amToday we’re releasing Sencha Touch 2 beta 2, which contains around 100 enhancements, examples, and bug fixes based on your feedback from last week’s beta 1. We’ve been really energized by all your positive feedback on beta 1 and would like to reiterate our appreciation for the time and energy you put in to creating apps, reporting bugs and sharing your experiences with others. Beta 2 should be a drop-in replacement for beta 1, and as before, we have prepared a full set of release notes. We hope you’ll continue to let us know what you think of the release in the… -
Flex to Sencha: The Opportunity
7 Feb 2012 | 10:00 amIn my professional career I have never witnessed a disruptive shift as large as the adoption of HTML5 as an application medium. Within this movement, Sencha is focused on building enterprise-grade frameworks, tools, and services to allow developers to deliver HTML5 applications on today’s mobile and desktop browser runtimes. Today Sencha is launching a fast-track program for Flex Developers looking to develop HTML5 applications. Having worked on Flex at Adobe, I have a deep respect for Flex as a technology and ecosystem. Flex is great technology but the foundational dependency on Flash… -
Sencha Touch 2 Beta—Raising The Bar
1 Feb 2012 | 8:00 amTwo years ago, we set out on a journey to make the web mobile. Today, we’re raising the bar with the release of Sencha Touch 2 Beta. Thank you to our community for your feedback during our sneak peaks with our Preview Releases. Your contributions in the forums, reporting bugs, adding feature requests, and your inspirational teamwork in the Q&A threads have kept us focused on what’s really important to you—delivering quality. We’ve taken all your feedback and we’re proud to deliver a release that we hope will exceed your expectations. Download Sencha Touch 2… -
Announcing Sencha Designer 2 Beta
30 Jan 2012 | 10:00 amSencha Designer 2 Now Supports Sencha Touch Sencha Designer 2 Beta features support for Sencha Touch and Ext JS JavaScript frameworks.Download Sencha Designer 2 beta today We’re thrilled to announce that Sencha Designer 2 Beta is available for download! Designer 2 makes it easier than ever to build desktop and mobile applications using Ext JS and Sencha Touch. We’ve been working hard to bring you the next generation of Designer that will help you quickly build Ext JS and Sencha Touch applications. Experienced users will enjoy the productivity gains of the visual development… -
How to Embed Interactive CSS3 Animations in an iBook
19 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pmClick through to see a video of Sencha Animator animations playing in an Apple iBook. Like everybody else on the US west coast, this morning we woke up in a world where Apple is poised to transform the way we consume textbooks. One of the compelling features of this new and exciting medium is the ability to easily publish interactive books through iBook Author. iBook Author lets you embed interactive content in your books to create more engaging experiences for learners, and our first thought here at the Sencha HQ was to try using Sencha Animator to create that interactive content. So after a…
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MooTools
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MooTools 1.4.4 Released
7 Feb 2012 | 8:30 amToday we release MooTools Core 1.4.4 which is a critical maintenance release. 1.4.3 release introduced a bug as a result of fixing another bug. Specifically, 1.4.3 did not allow custom attributes (e.g. data- or non-standard attributes). See this issue for a full explanation and solution. We recommend that all users upgrade to 1.4.4 as soon as possible. Fixes #2160: Fx.Tween/Fx.Morph problem with ‘%’ unit #2175: IE Leak: Array.flatten #2178: IE doesn’t set value when creating element if css attributes are used #2241: Slick.finder index selector #2247: Element.get not reading… -
MooTools 1.4.3 Released
21 Jan 2012 | 9:59 amToday we release MooTools Core 1.4.3 which is a small maintenance release. Upgrading from 1.4.2 should not cause any backward incompatibilities. We recommend that all users upgrade to 1.4.3 as soon as possible. Fixes #2109: IE7/8 getProperty returns functions #2110: Documentation: Request.JSON’s behaviour of onFailure #2117: Document conflicts between Array and Elements methods #2121: Missing Fx.options.frameSkip documentation. #2126: Re-add undocumented from argument to Element.fade #2127: Element.js memory leaks #2146: Add Element.NativeEvents to docs #2150: Add Fx.isPaused() method… -
JxLib: An Introduction
26 Dec 2011 | 12:02 pmJon Bomgardner is a contributor to the jxlib.org project. After recently joining the MooTools Developer mailing list and sharing his experience in upgrading jxlib to MooTools 1.4.2 we asked him to share his work here on the blog. What is JxLib JxLib is a JavaScript UI framework built on MooTools. It allows web developers and designers to quickly build user interfaces for their applications. JxLib is based on some sweet HMTL markup and strives to be fully CSS compliant. It is also a modular library allowing you to pick and choose from the available components as well as giving you the ability… -
MooTools Behavior
20 Dec 2011 | 4:51 pmThose of you who follow my work over on Clientcide may already be familiar with it, but for the rest of you I wanted to write a blog posts here on MooTools.net about the work I’ve been doing on a library called Behavior - a throwback to the behavior.js library released way back in 2005 which one might consider to be philosophically an ancestor of sorts. Purpose All well-written web sites / apps that are interactive have the same basic pattern: Each page of a site or app you build is esoteric. It may have any combination of interactive elements, some of which interact with each other… -
MooTools 1.4.2 Released
2 Dec 2011 | 1:03 pmToday we release MooTools Core 1.4.2 which is a small maintenance release. Upgrading from 1.4.1 should not cause any backward incompatibilities. We recommend all users upgrade to 1.4.2 as soon as possible. Fixes #2073: Reduced redundant call to onTimeout if async option is true. #2083: Fixes Element.clone in IE. #2085: All specs are green across. #2110: Element.erase('class') did not clear the class. #2113: button.set('type', 'button') is now fixed for webkit bug. #2116: Fixes Element.fade chain. #2118: $uid method is no longer exposed Improvements #2089: Added support for native mouseenter…
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The Dojo Toolkit Blog
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1.7 Tutorials, CometD 2.4.0, Wink Toolkit 1.4.1, and Documentation Feedback
5 Feb 2012 | 7:17 amThis past week included four significant announcements: The Dojo Tutorial series has been updated to include version 1.7 of Dojo. Read the announcement from SitePen for more details. Wink Toolkit has been updated to version 1.4.1. Wink Toolkit is a Dojo Foundation project that is mobile-specific, now builds on AMD, and is now easy to use with Dojo. See the Community Connections demo app which shows off using Dojo and Wink together, and introduces some of the committers to Dojo and Wink. CometD has released version 2.4.0. In addition to improving their WebSockets support, they have also… -
Looking for DojoConf in Europe? Try Web-5 in April!
5 Jan 2012 | 8:53 amThe very successful and inspiring DojoConf in DC last September has led many to ask us when there will be a DojoConf EU? While we have no immediate plans, active Dojo user “PEM” of the Web-5 Association is organizing Web-5 in Béziers, France in early April. In addition to 6 excellent Dojo talks, the conference will also include more general talks on HTML5, Mobile Web, Node.js, WebGL, performance, and general JavaScript and web application development topics. Early registration is now open with a 33% discount available for the first batch of sign-ups. We hope to see you in… -
Dojo 1.7.1 is Released!
15 Dec 2011 | 8:46 amWe’re happy to announce Dojo 1.7.1 is now available for download. Review the list of issues resolved in this release. Please report any new issues you find in your testing with your Dojo Foundation account. Links to CDN, and an updated reference guide, web site, and tutorials for 1.7 will be available soon. And special thanks to Colin Snover and Ken Franqueiro for managing this release! -
Dojo 1.7.1 Release Candidate 1
9 Dec 2011 | 6:21 amWe’re happy to announce Dojo 1.7.1rc1 is now available for download. Review the list of issues resolved in this release. Please report any new issues you find in your testing with your Dojo Foundation account. The plan is to release on Monday, December 12th, unless any major issues are found between now and then. -
Learn more about AMD!
7 Dec 2011 | 6:50 amIf you’ve been reading about Dojo 1.7, the first thing you’re probably wondering is, what is this AMD thing that everyone is talking about? We have a great tutorial update in the works, and some in progress AMD docs. If you’re first learning about AMD, here are a few presentations and resources that are particularly useful: Modular JavaScript by Brian Cavalier and Bryan Forbes Dojo 1.7 and 2.0: Modular, Mobile, and Reinventing Web App Development by Dylan Schiemann Moving to Dojo 1.7 and the path to 2.0 by James Thomas AMD Module Patterns by John Hann What is the fastest way…
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Yahoo! User Interface Blog
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YUI: Open Hours Thurs Feb 9th
6 Feb 2012 | 4:51 pmChecking in with Dav Glass It’s been a while since we checked in with Dav Glass. You know he’s always good for some interesting innovation, and it’s about time to get a report on the new shiny (or green-on-black) stuff he’s been working on for the last few months. Since Dav took over Loader, he’s been pretty busy doing the usual thing of adding test coverage and improving performance, but there are a few new things on top of that that are worth noting. Otherwise, he’s made some updates to the YUI core and npm packages to make YUI development even easier in… -
YUI Theater — Gonzalo Cordero: “Yahoo! Local Mobile Case Study” (33 min.)
6 Feb 2012 | 4:22 pmIn this talk from YUIConf 2011, Yahoo! frontend engineer Gonzalo Cordero (@goonieiam) reveals how Yahoo! Local used YUI 3 to develop their iOS app using a native Objective-C wrapper with HTML5 and YUI running in a UIWebView. He argues that there’s no such thing as a desktop web and a mobile web — there’s just “the web”, and YUI is the perfect framework for people who want to write web apps that run everywhere. Links View in HD on YouTube Full YUIConf 2011 Playlist on YouTube -
YUI: Open Hours Thurs Feb 2nd
31 Jan 2012 | 5:28 pm3.5.0pr2 is available We deployed the second 3.5.0 preview release right on time, celebrated for a couple minutes, then went back to work on PR3, which will be the gating preview before 3.5.0 GA in mid-March. But we’ll stop to take a breath and highlight some of the changes in PR2. You’ve read the short list on the release blog post, so join us for a little more detail and probably some live tinkering. As is the case with all preview releases, we’re eager to get your feedback and any bugs you find. Or if you’re note yet convinced to give it a try before the GA, maybe… -
YUI 3.5.0 PR2 Is Now Available
30 Jan 2012 | 4:28 pmYUI 3.5.0 Preview Release 2 has been released to the developer community for feedback and testing. It is now available on the Yahoo! CDN at yui.yahooapis.com/3.5.0pr2/build/yui/yui-min.js, or as a download if you plan to test it locally. The rollup of 3.5.0 changes introduced up until PR2 is available on our GitHub Wiki. You can also review the list of tickets that were resolved in this release. Work-in-progress user guides and API docs for 3.5.0 can be found on our staging site, but beware that these docs may be incomplete or even broken, since this is where we test new stuff. Official docs… -
YUI Theater — Derek Gathright: “Why YUI?” (27 min.)
30 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pmIn this talk from YUIConf 2011, YUI engineer and former jQuery user Derek Gathright (@derek) explains why you should consider using YUI to build your web apps. In particular, he stresses how YUI is designed to serve as an extensible set of building blocks (like Legos) and not just a collection of ready-to-use components (like pre-molded plastic toy cars). Links View in HD on YouTube Full YUIConf 2011 Playlist on YouTube
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Google Web Toolkit Blog
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Angry Birds Chrome now uses the Web Audio API
31 Jan 2012 | 2:15 pmCross-posted with the Google Code Blog Last week Angry Birds for Chrome was updated to use the Web Audio API for all its in-game audio for Chrome users, which means Chrome users get the full Angry Birds experience, without any plugins. The Web Audio API supports a wide variety of use cases, including the high fidelity and low latency requirements of games. Users of other supported browsers will still get sound via Flash or HTML5 audio. How does this cross-browser audio magic work? As you may have seen or heard, Angry Birds was in no small part made possible by the cross-platform open source… -
Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE) is Now Open Source
16 Nov 2011 | 9:58 amToday is quite a milestone for the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE). Our team is very happy to announce that all of GPE (including GWT Designer) is open source under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) v1.0. GPE is a set of software development tools that enables Java developers to quickly design, build, optimize, and deploy cloud-based applications using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Speed Tracer, App Engine, and other Google Cloud services.Because of the large ecosystem that has developed around GWT, App Engine, and Google’s Cloud services, and because our primary mission is to help users (as… -
GWT and Dart
10 Nov 2011 | 7:39 amThe Google Web Toolkit team has been asked recently about our plans following the announcement of the Dart programming language a few weeks ago. Dart and GWT both share the goal of enabling structured web programming. In fact, many of the same engineers who brought you GWT are working on Dart. We view Dart as an ambitious evolution of GWT’s mission to make web apps better for end users, and we’re optimistic about its potential. As Dart evolves and becomes ready for prime time, we anticipate working closely with the GWT developer community to explore Dart. Meanwhile, rest assured that GWT… -
Pictarine: pictures in the cloud
19 Sep 2011 | 11:32 amCross posted from the Google App Engine blog. Pictarine is a photo management web application, launched in 2010, that allows people to easily manage and share all of their photos from Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Twitter and other sites. Pictarine developers Guillaume Martin and Maxime Rafalimanana have contributed the following post discussing their experiences using Google App Engine and Google Web Toolkit. From the start, we used Google technologies in developing Pictarine and we wanted to share our experience with them so far. In this post, we will shed some light on the weaknesses and… -
Working with Maven and RequestFactory in GWT 2.4
16 Sep 2011 | 4:28 pmGWT 2.4 introduced changes to both Maven and RequestFactory, and we've recently updated the GWT wiki and sample apps with the latest and greatest: WorkingWithMaven (with instructions for Eclipse 3.5, 3.6, 3.7) RequestFactoryInterfaceValidation RequestFactory now does compile-time validation to ensure that your service implementations match your client-side interfaces. This feature is implemented using an annotation processor which must be configured in Eclipse or in your Maven POM. When configured in Eclipse, you will now see warnings and errors in the IDE anywhere your client- and…
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Official jQuery Blog
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jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1 Released
31 Jan 2012 | 5:33 pmHey there Internets, it’s the jQuery Core team! We haven’t talked in a while, but over the holidays we were busy fixing the bugs you reported. The result of that hard work is jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1. We decided to get a beta out by Groundhog Day so you wouldn’t be in the shadow of six more weeks of unfixed bugs. You can get the code from the jQuery CDN: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2b1.js Oh, we know what you’re thinking: “Cool, a new version of jQuery; I’ll wait until the final release has been out a few weeks and then I’ll give it a try.”… -
Plugins Site Update: The Old Is New Again
13 Dec 2011 | 8:44 amWe’ve gotten a lot of feedback since last week’s announcement about the plugins site’s unfortunate tumble into oblivion, and I’d like to address a few of the most important concerns that have surfaced since. “Could you make the old backup available for posterity?” Yes. We can — and have. Over the weekend, we restored the most recent backup we had, and the original site is now living at archive.plugins.jquery.com; you should be able to browse through everything that’s there to your heart’s content. We also applied the most recent user… -
What Is Happening To The jQuery Plugins Site?
8 Dec 2011 | 1:20 pmFor about a week, instead of hosting several hundred jQuery plugins and several thousand advertisements for laptop batteries, our plugins repository has been serving up a pretty pathetic message about spam and an allusion to some “new submission process.” This happened very suddenly, and we’re sorry to everyone who’s been inconvenienced. Please allow me a few minutes to explain what happened, where we’re headed, and how it impacts you. If you’re in a rush, here’s the short version. The Backstory Though the plugins site you’ve known and loved… -
jQuery Conference 2012: UK – Training Workshops Announced
29 Nov 2011 | 7:56 amWe are very happy to announce two training workshops for this years United Kingdom conference. The trainings will be given by Doug Neiner, Ralph Whitbeck and Mike Hostetler of appendTo. The general admission tickets for the conference are now sold out but you can buy conference/training bundles and still attend the conference. appendTo will be giving Introduction to jQuery and jQuery Mobile workshops. The workshops will be held on Thursday, 9 February, 2012 at the Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, UK. Introduction to jQuery jQuery has become the most popular JavaScript library for developers… -
Call for jQuery 1.8 Ideas
22 Nov 2011 | 10:28 amWe’re ready for our next round of community input, this time for version 1.8! This is your chance to suggest things we can fix, add, change, or remove in jQuery to make it better. You can add a suggestion using this form; whenever possible provide links to a bug report, a page with a detailed description, or implementations that represent your idea. We’d like to have all your input by December 5 so we can read and discuss them before setting the 1.8 roadmap. Many thanks for the suggestions left on our earlier blog post about how we can improve jQuery by trimming it down.
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Ajaxian » Front Page
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Winding road of open-source webOS
2 Feb 2012 | 2:21 pmHP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end. Some people see a life for the associated Enyo JavaScript framework aside from any success or failure webOS ultimately achieves. -
Shim uses node.js to test sites on multiple browsers
14 Jan 2012 | 8:01 pmShim was developed within the Boston Globe’s media lab as a way to study how Web sites look on various devices and browsers. A laptop intercepts all wifi traffic – this is redirected to a custom node.js server – which inserts a javascript, or “shim,” at the head of each web page that is visited. The shim, once loaded in a device’s browser, opens and maintains a socket connection to the server, according to to Shim’s developers. Shim was written in 2011 by Chris Marstall, Creative Technologist at the Boston Globe. The software has been open sourced. Write… -
HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP
10 Dec 2011 | 6:15 pmFacebook Software Engineer and HipHop for PHP team member Jason Evans provides details on Facebook’s move to a new high-performance PHP virtual machine. Described by Evans is ”a new PHP execution engine based on the HipHop language runtime that we call the HipHop Virtual Machine (hhvm).” He sees it as replacement for the HipHop PHP interpreter (hphpi). He continues: We have long been keenly aware of the limitations to static analysis imposed by such a dynamic language as PHP, not to mention the risks inherent in developing software with hphpi and deploying with hphpc. Our… -
Adobe to forgo Flash plug-in for mobile devices
12 Nov 2011 | 4:04 pmEarlier this week, Adobe VP and General Manager Danny Winokur disclosed that the company has concluded that HTML5 is ”the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.” The company said it would stop building Flash to run on mobile browsers. In a blog post on the new focus of Flash strategy, Winokur wrote: Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work… -
Intel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript
8 Oct 2011 | 10:38 amIntel’s Parallel Extensions for JavaScript, code named River Trail, hooks into on-chip vector extensions to improve performance of Web applications. Details of Intel’s attempt to get on the JavaScript juggernaut emerged last month at its developer event. The prototype JavaScript extension offered by Intel is intended to allow JavaScript apps to take advantage of modern parallel chip capabilities. Sequential gives way to parallel, at least in theory. In-browser games and image editing are pitched as examples of application elements that would take advantage of new eight-core…
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Real Story Group Recent Blog Entries < Real Story Group
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Three lessons across ten years of content technologies #trends #EntArch
8 Feb 2012 | 6:28 amLate last year we marked our tenth year in business, which seemed like a good time to reflect on what has changed across the landscape of content, web, and collaboration technologies -- and what has not. So I came up with three major lessons that seemed worth sharing: Your internal competencies may be the biggest factor in your success implementing technology Every prediction of significant marketplace "consolidation" has been wrong, although M&A activity has proven painful for customers What makes your enterprise unique (and therefore successful) also plays out in how you apply… -
eXo Platform quietly goes for Cloud and Mobile #Cloud #mobile
8 Feb 2012 | 2:15 amThe open source eXo portal platform released their latest version 3.5 last week. eXo platform is a "portal-like" offering that we cover in our Portals and Content Integration report. It's based on the GateIn open source portal container that eXo co-developed with Red Hat JBoss. You'll find a few new features in the latest release (e.g., a wiki module), an updated look and feel, as well as various functional improvements. However, as with so many vendors, the focus here is really on cloud and mobile. First, mobile: eXo released mobile clients for Android and iOS devices. -
Akamai, Limelight, or EdgeCast? Considerations when Selecting CDNs and OVPs #DAM #MediaAssetManagement
7 Feb 2012 | 9:23 amThis week we publish an Advisory Paper for our Digital & Media Asset Management research subscribers about key considerations when selecting a Content Delivery Network or an Online Video Platform. Many factors account for the ubiquitous role that video plays in the contemporary enterprise. Whether it’s a movie studio’s cinematic masterpiece, a broadcaster’s news clip, an animation studio’s cartoon, a university’s lecture, or video content in support of an agency-created brand strategy, video has become quite commonplace. From a consumer standpoint, the power… -
Alfresco Version 4 is Buzzword Compliant #Cloud #mobile
7 Feb 2012 | 4:13 amLast week open source document management vendor Alfresco released Version 4 of its (commercially-supported) enterprise edition package. As we've come to expect from Alfresco, it's long on buzzwords and interesting new directions, but a bit short on functional niceties and architectural continuity. The key features and implications for what Alfresco calls its "Cloud Connected Content Platform" are: The ability to publish content to external channels, such as YouTube, Facebook, SlideShare, Twitter and LinkedIn. However, you can only publish assets from Alfresco's document library to… -
WebSphere Portal, Coremedia or EMC Documentum? #ecm #portals
6 Feb 2012 | 6:14 amI enjoyed an excellent day in Oxford last week speaking (and listening to the other speakers) at a CMS Expert Group round table event. Many topics of interest emerged, but the one that underlay several discussions -- and is also close to my heart -- was, "When is a Web Content Management project not a Web Content Management project?" It may seem an odd question, but increasingly I see our subscribers asking questions about web self-service projects, albeit framing nearly identical requirements in very different terms. Take for example the following example, which is an aggregate of…
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CMSWire.com - All News
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview to Launch on 29 February
8 Feb 2012 | 12:56 pmMicrosoft will unveil (and likely make available) the consumer preview version of Windows 8 at an event being held at Mobile World Congress, presumably to signify the move from desktop to mobile. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job -
RIM Insists All Is Well with BlackBerry's Market Performance
8 Feb 2012 | 12:18 pmThey say everything is a matter of perspective. Well, the leadership at Research In Motion (RIM) has definitely been heavily investing in rose tinted lenses. In his first public appearance as the new President and CEO of RIM, Thorstein Heins said the company is doing just fine. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job -
Dreams of the Paper Free Office: AIIM Reports
8 Feb 2012 | 11:34 amWe had dreams of a paperless workforce. By now we should have laser rays shooting out of our eyes that can scan, decode and upload relevant information into our bionic brains, eliminating the need for us to handle paper documents of any kind. For many of us, that simply isn’t the way it worked out. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job -
Myths & Realities of Drupal
8 Feb 2012 | 10:05 amIn the decade since its quiet emergence onto the scene, Drupal has become an industry standard in the web content management and web publishing field, one with an almost cult-like following among developers. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job -
Socialtext Offers Enterprise Collaboration Globally With NetDocuments Partnership
8 Feb 2012 | 9:59 amSocialtext has been adding and adding to its enterprise social platform since it launched v5.0 in September. This year it looks set to maintain that momentum and has already announced a partnership with NetDocuments. Read full story... Follow us on Twitter Join free newsletter View upcoming events Find a new job
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Slashdot
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The Zuckerberg Tax
8 Feb 2012 | 4:16 pmHugh Pickens writes "David S. Miller writes that when Facebook goes public later this year, Mark Zuckerberg plans to exercise stock options worth $5 billion of the $28 billion that his ownership stake will be worth and since the $5 billion he will receive will be treated as salary, Zuckerberg will have a tax bill of more than $2 billion making him, quite possibly, the largest taxpayer in history. But how much income tax will Zuckerberg pay on the rest of his stock that he won't immediately sell? Nothing, nada, zilch. He can simply use his stock as collateral to borrow against his tremendous… -
Jedi Master's Hand-Made Lightsaber Stolen
8 Feb 2012 | 3:52 pmFirst time accepted submitter psiogen writes "Flynn Michael, an instructor at New York Jedi, an organization that teaches 'practical knowledge of how to use a lightsaber, left his custom-crafted blade for only a few imperial minutes, but when he returned, it was gone. Fromthe article:'“Who steals somebody’s lightsaber? It’s like stealing someone’s toy out of the sandbox,” said Michael, the founder of New York Jedi, a stage combat performance group. “I finally got my uber custom saber, and then some jerk walks out with it."'"Read more of this story at… -
US Air Force Buys iPads To Replace Flight Bags
8 Feb 2012 | 3:31 pmredletterdave writes "Following the precedent set by commercial airliners, the U.S. Air Force plans to buy up to 18,000 iPads for its Air Mobility Command (AMC), replacing heavy flight bags with light and efficient Apple iPad 2s for the crews that fly cargo aircraft. The devices will reportedly be used by the crews on the C-5 Galaxy and C-17 Globemaster aircraft. There are several benefits to using electronic flight bags instead of physical versions. For one, the iPad can instantly update charts electronically, while the AMC would require flying charts get reprinted every 28 days to stay… -
Selling Used MP3s Found Legal In America
8 Feb 2012 | 2:50 pmbs0d3 writes "After some litigation; ReDigi, a site where people can sell used MP3's has been found legal in America. One of the key decisions the judge had to make was whether MP3's were material objects or not. 'Material objects' are not subject to the distribution right stipulated in "17 USC 106(3)" which protects the sale of intellectual property copies. If MP3's are material objects than the resale of them is guaranteed legal under the first sale' exception in 17 USC 109. Capitol Records tried to argue that they were material objects under one law and not under the other. Today the judge… -
If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language
8 Feb 2012 | 2:28 pmFirst time accepted submitter derekmead writes "A Yale researcher says that culture differences how much money we save, how well we take care of ourselves, and other behavior indicative of taking the long view, are all based on language. His study argues that the way a language's syntax refers to the future (PDF) affects how its speakers perceive the future. For example, English and Greek make strong distinctions between the present and the future, while German doesn't, while English and Greek speakers are statistically poorer and in worse health than Germans. (The study includes a broader…
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dzone.com: latest front page
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What's the best Platform-as-a-Service?
8 Feb 2012 | 1:15 pmAlthough we will see more players emerge in the space, not all of them will be winners. That said, to answer the question in the title of this blog post: What's the best platform-as-a-service? It depends on who you are and what you're trying to do. -
How to Succeed as an Introvert
8 Feb 2012 | 11:32 amExtroverts love, and get, attention. But organizations miss out when they fail to cultivate the contributions of introverts, too. Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, uncovers why, and finds ways for “quiet geniuses” to thrive. Elana Varon interviewed Cain to learn how geeky IT introverts (like, say, us) can cope. -
JSR 292/invokedynamic Goodness: Fast code coverage tool in less than 10k
8 Feb 2012 | 11:13 amJSR 292 introduces a new bytecode instruction invokedynamic but also several new kind of constant pool constants. Which means that most of the tools that parse bytecodes like ASM, BCEL, findbugs or EMMA will need to be updated to be java 7 compatible. EMMA is a code coverage tool, a tool that helps developers to know if their tests cover all the code of the application. While it's not the only code coverage tool available in Java, it's the most popular from my personal experience. In this blog entry, I would like to show how to write a simple code coverage tool indycov that use JSR 292 API to… -
C# and Facebook
8 Feb 2012 | 10:33 amYou can interact with Facebook in C# by installing Facebook C# SDK dlls. The easiest way to do this is using NuGet. To add the reference, right click on “References”, and then click “Add Library Package Reference…”. From the Add Library Package Reference dialog do a search for “Facebook”. After the install completes click “Close”. -
Developer Preview of jdk 8 with Lambda (JSR 335) support
8 Feb 2012 | 10:01 amThis page provides a Developer Preview of OpenJDK with Lambda (JSR 335) support. The Lambda project aims to support programming in a multicore environment by adding closures and related features to the Java language
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A List Apart
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Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
31 Jan 2012 | 4:00 amWith a mobile-first responsive design approach, if any part of the process breaks down, your user can still receive a representative image and avoid an unnecessarily large request on a device that may have limited bandwidth. But with several newer browsers implementing an “image prefetching” feature that allows images to be fetched before parsing the document’s body, some of the web's brightest developers are abandoning responsive images in favor of user agent detection, at least as a temporary solution. For us standardistas, UA detection leaves a bad taste in the mouth. More… -
Pricing Strategy for Creatives
31 Jan 2012 | 4:00 amStrategic pricing helps your brand and helps you to make more money. Issuing a price is like handing out a business card—it’s a great branding tool, but be careful about what it says to your market. Beginning relationships with customers at a high price makes the statement: “we’re good at what we do and we know it.” Fighting with a competitor over a low price says “I’m uncertain about my abilities, so I’ll take what I can get.” Failing to use a considered pricing policy will leave you treading water in a sea of design mediocrity, allowing you to just stay afloat while you… -
Building Twitter Bootstrap
17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 amBootstrap is an open-source front-end toolkit created to help designers and developers quickly and efficiently build great stuff online. Its goal is to provide a refined, well-documented, and extensive library of flexible design components created with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for others to build and innovate on. Today, it has grown to include dozens of components and has become the most popular project on GitHub, with more than 13,000 watchers and 2,000 forks. Mark Otto, the co-creator of Bootstrap, sheds light on how and why Bootstrap was made, the processes used to create it, and how it… -
An Important Time for Design
17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 amDesign is on a roll. Client services are experiencing a major uptick in demand, seasoned design professionals are abandoning client work in favor of entrepreneurship, and designer-co-founded startups such as Kickstarter and Airbnb are taking center stage. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that design has a massive role to play in the evolution of the web and the next generation of web products. The result, says Cameron Koczon, is that designers have now been given a blank check—one that lets web designers band together as a community to change the way design is… -
A Pixel Identity Crisis
17 Jan 2012 | 1:00 amThe pixel has long been the atomic particle of screen based design: a knowable, concrete unit of measurement. But layouts based on the hardware pixel are fast becoming an endangered species. Even the introduction of a new, W3C standard reference pixel, although it promises stability in the long-term, can't help us navigate the current chaos. Consider the two "standard" pixel definitions and 500 "standard" viewports your user's Android device may support. To create designs that transcend platform differences—the promise of the web and standards—you must normalize pixels across devices.
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ASP.NET News
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New Tutorial Series: Working with the DropDownList Box and jQuery
22 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pmLearn the basics of working with the DropDownList helper and the ListBox helper in an ASP.NET MVC Web application with this new 3-part series! -
Walkthrough: Hosting an ASP.NET Application on Windows Azure
2 Jan 2012 | 4:00 pmLearn everything you need to know to host your ASP.NET MVC or Web Forms application on Windows Azure with this new set of walkthroughs! -
Announcing the Release of Silverlight 5
8 Dec 2011 | 4:00 pmToday is the official release of Silverlight 5! Find out more on what's included and how to get the bits from Pete Brown's blog post. -
New ASP.NET Website Launched
1 Dec 2011 | 4:00 pmA new ASP.NET website has launched, with easier-to-find information and new content to get you started. Get the all the details from Scott Hanselman! -
New Deploying With Visual Studio 2010 Tutorial Series!
16 Nov 2011 | 4:00 pmLearn how to make an ASP.NET web application available over the internet by deploying it to a third-party hosting provider via Visual Studio's one-click publish.
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Ed Brill
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Information Week: Jive CEO: Social Tools Are Essential, Not Extras
8 Feb 2012 | 11:44 amWe agree in principle... Social software is the best way for organizations to organize "their single biggest investment, which for most companies is their people," [Jive CEO Tony Zingale] said. "They must adopt social business strategy or risk falling behind their competitors."Couldn't have said it better ourselves. However, I'm surprised where he goes from there: IBM Connections is the "refurbished Lotus email system"Um, OK. Even the reporter isn't buying it:His slams against the completion are entertaining, but keep in mind that one of the definitions of "jive" is "to engage in… -
Wired: Clive Thompson on Analog Designs in the Digital Age
7 Feb 2012 | 11:46 amOn my flight over to Europe this week, I read Clive Thompson's column and was intrigued:When we get to the last week of February, open your Google Calendar and choose the Month view. You'll see the previous three weeks grayed out. Only the next few days will be "active." If you want to see what you've got planned for more than the next couple of days, you have to flip forward to March. Now ask yourself: Why does Google Calendar--and nearly every other digital calendar--work that way? It's a strange waste of space, forcing you to look at three weeks of the past. Those weeks are mostly… -
More on the Lotus Symphony and desktop productivity roadmap
5 Feb 2012 | 7:07 amJust after Lotusphere, IBM released Lotus Symphony 3.0.1. This new version of Symphony features several incremental enhancements and demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the OpenOffice-based desktop productivity market. In my earlier blog entry, I indicated that our energy around the next release of Symphony is combining with the open-source community around the Apache OpenOffice project. Rather than continue Symphony as a separate fork, we plan to contribute the Symphony codebase into the project that should be released later this year as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. We've hired developers with… -
Business Gets Social 2012 - formerly Lotusphere Comes to You - dates announced
1 Feb 2012 | 5:36 pmIBM.com has dates and locations starting to show up for the Business Gets Social 2012 roadshow - aka/fka Lotusphere Comes to You.... Link: ibm.com: Business Gets Social 2012 - Software Roadshow > -
Dominoplus introduces D+ Everywhere
30 Jan 2012 | 5:17 amWhen I was in Spain last fall for the ESLUG event, I met Alejandro and the team from Dominoplus. They were excited to show me their "D+ Everywhere" application, which uses XPages to deliver offline mobile applications over HTML5. Now they have commercialized the solution, so I can highlight it more broadly:Domino+ has developed a solution based on Lotus Domino, xPages, HTML5 and jQuery Mobile which allows Lotus Domino xPages applications to be used off-line when there's no data connection. It works in mobile devices which support HTML5 like modern Tablets and Smart phones. The technology has…
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DontPanic - a blog about Lotus Notes / Domino
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Runtime optimized JavaScript and CSS - workaround for multiple stylesheets
26 Jan 2012 | 12:55 amUpdate: This workaround is only needed if you use "folders" in the image resource name. E.g. backgrounds\home.png.If you have multiple local stylesheets on a page, the CSS files are combined into a single file.This changes the url to the stylesheet (adds xsp/.ibmmodres/.css after the path to the db).If you have an image reference like url(image.png), the image can no longer be loaded, as the url is relative to the path of the stylesheet.To work around this issue, add ../../../ to the image reference.E.g.url(../../../image.png) -
Useful tool when working with text files (CSV, source code, etc)
5 Jan 2012 | 3:50 amWinGrep is a tool that let's you search one/several folders for parts of strings. It supports searching in zip files, and lets you use Regular Expression (Perl syntax?) for searching strings.The result pane shows all the matching lines in the file(s) you are searching. -
Thing to be aware of when using "Generate unique keys.." in view
2 Jan 2012 | 3:43 amI had trouble with a couple of views today. The views had the option Generate unique keys in index checked.When the views were replicated to other servers, they weren't built. When trying to open them I got the error message Entry not found in indexI found the solution on the Domino forums, add @IsUnavailable($Conflict) to the view selection. -
ClassNotFoundException with the new Java design element
13 Dec 2011 | 12:16 amLast week Vince Shuurman blogged about having to recompile when opening an XPage app in Domino Designer.I had the same issue. I was using some Java code in an XPage, and every time I opened the app in designer, I got ClassNotFoundException when opening the XPage. A build of the project fixed the issue.My java code was in the new Java design element (new in Domino 8.5.3), so I suspected that it might have something to do with this.I moved the code to a "custom" java source folder, and the error went away. Closing/opening the app in Designer did not result in ClassNotFoundException. -
Java Debugging in Designer without hacks
20 Oct 2011 | 11:44 pmI found this today: How can I enable Java debugging?.Not sure if this is new in 8.5.3, but I never heard of it. It makes it a lot easier to debug than the using the two headed beast method which seemed like too much trouble.The full instructions are in the Designer help. Search for java debugging.
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Added: Lotus Notes and Domino wiki
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How to define the SNMP monitorig IP address in windows domino server
6 Feb 2012 | 1:28 amScreen shot captured: How to define the SNMP monitorig IP address in windows domino server 1. Open Services.msc from RUN on server 2. Find SNMP services and open it 3. Clik On 'TRAP' 4. Type 'public' in community name and clic add to list 5. Type your SNMP Monitoring Server IP address and ... -
Shared Mail box showing read marks for all users
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Retrieve or read Lotus Notes password
25 Jan 2012 | 4:48 amQuestion: I have an MS Access application that can send Lotus Notes email via VBA macro. With Access 2003 it is no problem to get a Notes.NotesSession. With Access 2010 it gives a problem that says "Automation Embedding.nsf" does not exist. (I don't know what to do.) Another way is when I use ... -
Routing mail from mobile devices using Lotus Notes Traveler
22 Jan 2012 | 10:15 amMail sent from Lotus Notes Traveler mobile devices is first processed by the Lotus Notes Traveler server and then placed into a Lotus Domino mail box database. By default, the mail box database used is the mail.box database located on the mobile user's Domino mail server. If the database mail.box ... -
Highlighting text in Notes
18 Jan 2012 | 6:11 amMark text with a highlight color to call attention to text. Note that you must be in a richtext field to add highlights. About this task Put the document in Edit mode, and then do any of the following: Table 1. Tasks using the highlight feature Task Action Turn on or off the highlight ...
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Notes Design Blog
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Participate in Lotusphere 2012 online feedback activities
16 Jan 2012 | 9:31 amIf you are at Lotusphere or couldn't make it this year, here are some online activities. Answer Our Online Question of the Day! In the User Experience Lab, we'll be asking a "Question of the Day." Visit us in Asia 4 each day to answer the question and to sign up for a chance to win a prize at the end of the day. If you don't have time to stop by and see us, we'd still like to hear from you. Click here to fill out a short survey to give your answers. https://www.ibm.com/survey/oid/wsb.dll/s/ag41e Wiki usage survey We want your feedback. IBM is continuing to develop improvements and… -
Special sessions in the UX Lab
13 Jan 2012 | 4:42 amAre you curious about product design? Do you want to get more involved? Join us for one or more of the following special sessions in the User Experience Lab (Asia 4). Special Events Monday 1/16/12 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM "IBM Collaboration Solutions Future Product Design Direction" Speakers: Chris Paul, Director, User Experience; Ethan Perry, STSM; Brian Utesch, STSM Abstract: How is the user experience(UX) of IBM Collaboration Solutions products designed? What role does Lotusphere play in ongoing collaboration with customers? The ICS User Experience Director, Chris Paul, and UX Design… -
Great activities in the UX Lab
12 Jan 2012 | 4:50 amWe've been so busy getting ready for Lotusphere 2012, we forgot to tell you what we have planned for you. Here's a list of the activities. You really want to stop by to see Social Mail with Eric Wilcox. Eric is a first time Lotusphere attendee. Make his Lotusphere memorable. Kathy Howard will be there to talk about Domino Designer and XPages. I know you all love to get a look at Designer. I'll add some more info tomorrow, be sure to stop back. Velda Bartek Lotus Design on Facebook and Twitter Participate in activities going on in the User Experience Lab View the… -
IBM Lotus iNotes Survey
17 Nov 2011 | 5:28 amThe User Experience Research team is conducting a follow-up survey to get additional feedback on a series of common tasks in IBM Lotus iNotes. We invite you to take a few minutes to complete this short survey and provide input on which tasks are the most important to your job and how well those tasks have been designed and implemented (are they easy to use?) in IBM Lotus iNotes today. Please feel free to forward this request to any additional colleagues who may be interested in participating as well. To participate, click this link: IBM Lotus iNotes Survey Thank you very… -
VideoFest 2012
15 Nov 2011 | 11:32 amSubmissions are being accepted for VideoFest....your video could be highlighted at Lotusphere 2012! Contribute your video now at VideoFest 2012 -Sheri Branco Lotus Design on Facebook and Twitter
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wissel.net
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AD106, AD111 and AD114 slides posted
24 Jan 2012 | 7:35 pmNow available on Slideshare: AD106 - IBM Lotus Domino XPages anywhere - Write them once, See them Everywhere AD111 - The X Path: Practical guide to taking your IBM Lotus Notes applications to Domino XPages AD114 - Don't be afraid of curly brackets reloaded - even more JavaScript for LotusScript Developers There are a few more. Enjoy! -
Lotussphere Session evaluations
24 Jan 2012 | 8:30 amWith AD106, AD111 and AD114 my colleagues and I delivered 3 development sessions. I always find it difficult to strike the right balance, so different levels of audience can benefit from them. Hunter, Viktor and I spend a lot of time discussing, creating, revising and starting over when we prepared for the sessions. It seems we were well accepted. Here are the ratings and comments: AD106 - IBM Lotus Domino XPages anywhere - Write them once, See them Everywhere: 97.5% good & excellent ratings for quality and content and 90.0% good & excellent ratings for quality and effectiveness of… -
AD111 - What's your investment in Notes Applications?
24 Jan 2012 | 6:28 amOne of the items in our AD111 presentation that got a lot of attention was the CoCoMo II analysis of existing Notes applications. I'll explain what it is and how to run your own analysis: CoCoMo stands for COnstructive COst MOdel, first published in 1981 by Dr. Barry Boehm of the Center for Systems and Software Engineering of the University of Southern California and later refined in version 2 (you can read all about it on their website). In a nutshell: If you know how much lines of code you need, how complex the task is and how experienced your developers as a team are, then CoCoMo II can… -
Give your web applications a speedboost and HTML5 compatibility boost in Internet Explorer
18 Jan 2012 | 7:02 amWith the accelerating emergence of mobile devices HTML5 takes centre stage. While the first round of the "browser wars 2.0" was all about speed, the second round is about HTML5 compatibility and behaviour. With the dominance of Android and iOS in the mobile market Microsoft's Internet Explorer isn't the gold standard for browsers anymore, the test results rather show IE as trying to catch up. Furthermore, since it isn't a standard if it doesn't allow for divergent interpretation, Microsoft implements HTML5 features different than the rest, creating a headache for developers. The irony in the… -
Lotusphere announcements (The OGS)
16 Jan 2012 | 6:07 amStarting Lotusphere with a Geek Band was quite enjoyable. Alistair opened the session going directly to to the most burning of questions: Who's the speaker: Entering the stage Michael J. Fox got standing ovations. This response to people lamenting about problems is "There was a lady who had a baby in a tree, what have you got?" Alistair's key message: "Get social, make more Money!". Getting there requires collective intelligence, rethink, reinvent and transform businesses. The product announcements confirmed that IBM is deprecating the Lotus brand in favour of a stronger emphasis on the core…
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Maureen's blog
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Farewell to the Old Me
26 Jan 2012 | 7:59 amI'm a folkie, as far as music goes. And the Dar Williams song titled "Farewell to the Old Me" has been going through my head a lot lately. I have worked on Domino Designer since February of 1997, with the exception of a foray of a few years into Lotus Component Designer. Since that technology ultimately contributed to Domino Designer, it feels like a contiguous 15 year span of time on Designer. I have often called Designer my seventh child, and in many ways it is. I have watched it grow from a few menu items and some extra twisties in the navigator to an Eclipse based product of its own. I've… -
Out of the Pink...
28 Oct 2010 | 1:00 pmThis month is of course breast cancer awareness month. Pink has been everywhere... Profile pictures, ribbons, etc. I have mixed emotions about this in the best of times - breast cancer is just one of many cancers, and I am uncomfortable with its more than equal airtime. Taking actions like changing the color of a profile picture, or posting a status "against" a particular cancer (is anyone for it?) just really doesn't make sense to me. I feel the same way about my "own" cancer - the one I survived (merkel cell carcinoma) - so I don't think it's a case of my picking "favorites."The counter… -
That problems view...
30 Jun 2010 | 8:42 amI recently heard from a user who said that it wasn't possible to filter the contents of the problems view, and realized that others may also not realize that this is configurable. If you click on the little arrow that is on the far right on the problems view's title bar, you get a drop down menu. If you choose "Configure contents" a dialog is shown, pictured below. If you check off one or both of errors and warnings, and then for the Scope setting, choose "On any element in same project," the problems view will only show the errors and/or warnings that apply to the selected project. This is… -
the firsts become lasts
5 Jun 2010 | 8:00 amYesterday morning, as I have most mornings over the past 24 years, I woke a child up for school. Counting day care years, this has been my morning routine for 27 years. And I realized that it was the last time I'd do so... Our youngest had his last final in high school yesterday, and all that remains are things like graduation rehearsals (later in the day) and senior banquets, and of course, graduation.He'll be off to college in the fall, and will have to depend on his alarm clock instead of mom. And I will have to rely on his alarm clock, too, to provide the safety net I've been for… -
home is where the memories are
25 Apr 2010 | 3:13 pmI'm headed home to Buffalo for the weekend in a couple of weeks, and started thinking about what I wanted to revisit (besides my mom!) and what I wanted to reconnect with in my home town.There are a certain set of foods for which Buffalo is famous: Ted's Hot Dogs and Anderson's Roast Beef on Kummelweck, and of course I will be headed back to Boston with some Weber's horseradish mustard. But then I remembered a very special pub... One that my first boyfriend would bring me to, with old graffiti-covered wooden booths (I believe our initials are on them!), and delicious frozen drinks with "no…
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E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez
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I Think I May Have Just Experienced The Future…
6 Feb 2012 | 9:26 amAs I have just mentioned in my last blog entry, the last few days I have been embarked on my latest business trip, coinciding with a wonderful visit all around to Helsinki, Finland, where my good friends from IBM Finland invited me over to participate on the IBM CIO Forum event, with the rather innovative initiative of “Redefining Work 925“, and a couple of other events, and where, after being there for about three days, I think I may have just experienced the future… The future of a fully networked and interconnected world… Our world.And what it would look like… -
Ghost Writing – Good or Bad?
6 Feb 2012 | 3:10 amOnce again, I am on the road on to my next business trip, this time around with two distinctive parts; one of them to Helsinki, Finland, where I will be participating in a number of IBM sponsored events around the Social Enterprise, a really cool, inspiring and rather innovative initiative on “Redefining Work 925” and, believe it or not, Living “A World Without Email” (One of my favourite topics du jour, as you can imagine …) and the other one to Paris, France, where I will be participating, and moderating a couple of panels, at the always engaging, entertaining… -
On Humanising Titans Through Perseverance and Resilience
31 Jan 2012 | 12:41 pmAbout two years ago, I wrote a short blog post on the topic “On Humanising Titans“, where I tried to put in perspective what it was like being humane by showing and demonstrating a new kind of leadership, that one of leaders as servants, as I was trying to capture what must have been, till then, one of those sport battles of epic proportions difficult to forget. Even today. Well, three years later, almost at that very same time, and at the very same venue (The Australian Open) I guess we have just witnessed another example where we can surely take the word epicinto a new level! -
Lotusphere and IBM Connect 2012 Highlights – Back to Basics of Conferences! #ls12 #ibmconnect
26 Jan 2012 | 1:31 pmAs more and more blog posts are starting to come along sharing further insights on some of the major highlights from the recent IBM Lotusphere and IBM Connect 2012 events held last week in Orlando, Florida, I guess it’s now time for me to start sharing my two cents on what both events were like, what I learned, what I thought were some pretty interesting developments and happenings, as well as a bunch of other tidbits that I think would prove useful to share over here in this blog. So over the course of the next few days, perhaps couple of weeks, and in between other blog entries here… -
Time Flies When You Are Having Fun – Happy IBM Anniversary!
24 Jan 2012 | 3:42 pmWhoahh! Who would have thought about that, eh? Here is this English Language and English Literature BA just going through one of those milestones difficult to achieve in today’s current time and age. Who would have thought that on January 20th 1997 I would start working for IBM and that 15 years later I would still be there having a blast loving what I love doing: working smarter, not necessarily harder, with plenty of people as passionate as I am for everything related to knowledge sharing, collaboration, communities, learning and social networking, and aiming at doing, or, at least,…
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IBM developerWorks : Open source
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Using UI components in jQuery Mobile
7 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmMany UI components are available in the jQuery Mobile framework. This article provides a high-level overview of each element and how you can use it in a mobile website. It touches on specific UI components, explains the reasons to use them, and provides code examples of their use in a mobile website. -
Integrating MediaWiki with LDAP
6 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmLearn how to add a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) authentication module to MediaWiki that will allow it to authenticate users against an LDAP directory. Gain a better understanding of MediaWiki, Apache Directory Services (ApacheDS), and Apache Directory Studio, and how you can use them to create an LDAP directory for testing. -
Device-aware mobile sites using PHP, JavaScript, and WURFL, Part 1: Get started using the WURFL PHP API
6 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmWith a rapidly growing mobile Web, if you haven't already started working on a PHP-driven mobile site or application, you soon will be. Detecting the capability of one mobile device among the thousands of offerings is nearly impossible with PHP alone. But with the Wireless Universal Resource FiLe (WURFL), this once daunting task becomes as simple as a few API calls to retrieve the device data you need and can use with your PHP site or application. -
Create a custom web services project in Drupal 7
30 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pmDid you know you can provide web services through your Drupal- powered site? Learn how to use this technique to offer more flexibility with your content. -
Casting spells with ImageMagick
23 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pmImageMagick is a suite of open source tools for creating, editing, and converting bitmap images. The advanced developer can leverage its many capabilities to produce quality, professional bitmap images, and other artwork for display on websites, in marketing brochures, and anywhere the artistic mood may strike. Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license, ImageMagick can be freely used, copied, modified, and distributed in both open and proprietary applications.
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IBM developerWorks : Web development
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Using UI components in jQuery Mobile
7 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmMany UI components are available in the jQuery Mobile framework. This article provides a high-level overview of each element and how you can use it in a mobile website. It touches on specific UI components, explains the reasons to use them, and provides code examples of their use in a mobile website. -
Your first cup of CoffeeScript, Part 2: Learn the language with hands-on examples
6 Feb 2012 | 10:00 pmThis series explores the popular CoffeeScript programming language, which is built on top of JavaScript. In Part 1, you learned about the perks for developers, set up the CoffeeScript compiler, and used it to create code that was ready to run in a browser or server. In this article, wade deeper into the CoffeeScript language. Use CoffeeScript to solve several programming problems, with a mathematical flavor to them, from Project Euler. Example source code is provided. -
Scalable Vector Graphics in HTML5
30 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pmScalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are part of the vector family of graphics. They have several benefits over their raster counterparts: JPEG, GIF, and PNG. In this article, explore the basic concepts and usage of SVG graphics in HTML5. Learn about drawing, filters, gradients, text, and adding SVG XML to web pages. -
WebSphere proxy server routing capabilities in a secured environment
24 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pmThis article discusses the various routing capabilities of the WebSphere proxy server, which is a feature of IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment. Multiple configuration scenarios are presented, along with background information, setup instructions and tips to help you achieve success routing content using proxy server features in a secured environment. -
Comment lines: Choosing the right web content management delivery solution
24 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pmThe IBM Web Content Manager software offers different solutions for delivering web content to your users . This article explains all the solutions available and why you would chose each.
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IBM developerWorks : XML
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Scalable Vector Graphics in HTML5
30 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pmScalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are part of the vector family of graphics. They have several benefits over their raster counterparts: JPEG, GIF, and PNG. In this article, explore the basic concepts and usage of SVG graphics in HTML5. Learn about drawing, filters, gradients, text, and adding SVG XML to web pages. -
Build integrated solutions for XML transformations with WebSphere Transformation Extender, Part 1: Transform legacy data into XML
30 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pmThe XML format is a common standard for document and message exchange. Learn how to use WebSphere Transformation Extender to easily migrate legacy data to XML. WebSphere Transformation Extender separates data transformation logic and business flow logic, which can save on maintenance costs. Walk through a scenario that includes examples and source code. Create a WebSphere Transformation Extender map to retrieve legacy data from a database and transform it to an XML file. -
Leveraging pureXML in a Flex microblogging application, Part 1: Enabling Web services with DB2 pureXML
23 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pmThe pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 allow you to store XML natively in a database without modification, while Adobe Flex applications can read XML directly and populate Flex user interfaces. In this three-part article series, you will create a microblogging application that takes advantage of pureXML, Web services, and Adobe Flex; and even allows you to publish your microblogging updates on Twitter. -
Using JDBC to extract data into XML
23 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pmXML is best suited to storing data, so it's inevitable that at some point someone will ask you to pull information from a database and manipulate it as though it were XML. This tutorial will teach you to access a database using JDBC and use SQL to pull information, which you will then use to build an XML Document using a predetermined mapping. -
Explore QTI in depth
16 Jan 2012 | 10:00 pmThe IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) specification is a widely used standard for marking up questions and other learning material. Look at the response and result processing for a QTI item and learn what happens when a user answers a question.
