Visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces - in the browser!

What is Maqetta?

Maqetta is an open source technology initiative at Dojo Foundation that provides WYSIWYG visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces for HTML5 (desktop and mobile). The Maqetta application itself is authored in HTML, and therefore runs in the browser without requiring additional plugins or downloads.

http://maqetta.org/

HTML5 TEST – How well does your browser support HTML5?

The web site www.html5test.com test how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications.

Please note that the HTML5 test is not affiliated with the W3C or the HTML5 working group.

Runs Android OS and apps on Windows PCs, BlueStacks

BlueStacks runs Android apps on a Samsung Windows notebook PC

Next release of Windows Phone, code named - Mango

Joe Belfiore Announces Next Release of Windows Phone, Code-Named 'Mango'


Windows Phone "Mango" Developer Tools Release

Javascript PC Emulator

Running a 2.6.20 Linux kernel in a Firefox 4 browser.

Try it: http://bellard.org/jslinux/
Details: http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html

Apple Stimulates Religious Experience...!?

Looks like the Bible has some competition from Apple. That's right, an experiment by British neuroscientists revealed the tech giant's products stimulate the brain similarly to religious imagery. According to The Register...

"...the neuroscientists ran an MRI scan on the brain of Alex Brooks, the editor of World of Apple, who claims that the Jobsian cult is 'definitely' on his mind 24 hours a day. They discovered that photos of things like the iPhone and the iPad make certain parts of his brain all tingly."

A blogger for CNET ponders over the meaning of such Apple-theism.

"...there is surely one deep and significant philosophical question to ask on this fine Friday: are people becoming religiously devoted to products such as Apple's because religion has failed them?"

But a writer for Computer World spews blasphemy -- questioning the legitimacy of the experiment, which was conducted for a BBC documentary on 'superbrands.'

"Obviously, this isn't real science. It wasn't a controlled experiment. No comparisons were made about whether Heinz beans or Adidas sneakers, for example, are stimulating the same parts of the brain as that stimulated by religious imagery. So this MRI scanning is as much stunt as it is truth."

In any case, The Guardian says Apple's divine status is undeniable, saying...

"This suggests that the big tech brands have harnessed, or exploit, the brain areas that have evolved to process religion... A meeting with the Bishop of Buckingham, who reads the Bible using his Apple iPad, appeared to back up this assertion."

BBC's Alex Riley decided to experience the Jobsian cult by visiting an Apple store opening.

Google Maps on mobile browser updated

Now, when you visit maps.google.com on your phone or tablet’s browser and opt-in to share your location, you can use many of the same Google Maps features you’re used to from the desktop. This will allow you to:

• See your current location
  
• Search for what’s nearby with suggest and auto complete
  
• Have clickable icons of popular businesses and transit stations
  
• Get driving, transit, biking, and walking directions
  
• Turn on satellite, transit, traffic, biking, and other layers
  
• View Place pages with photos, ratings, hours, and more
  
• When signed into your Google account, access your starred locations and My Maps

details:
- Official Google Mobile Blog: Google Maps on your mobile browser

Android + App Engine@Google I/O 2011

This talk will introduce App Engine Tooling for Android. A complete set of Eclipse-based Java development tools for building Android applications that are backed by App Engine. With these tools developers can focus on building fantastic Android applications using common tools and techniques that span the client and server parts of the application AND make it extremely simple to deploy the server side to App Engine. This talk walks through building a fantastic cloud based android application.

FREE Microsoft Web Platform Installer 3.0

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 3.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer easy. The Web PI also makes it easy to install and run the most popular free web applications for blogging, content management and more with the built-in Windows Web Application Gallery.

Now with Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, ASP.NET 4, and ASP.NET MVC3 for FREE!

Link:
~ http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

Eclipse IDE for JavaScript Web Developers

Eclipse IDE for JavaScript Web Developers is integrated development tools for JavaScript developers creating Web applications, including a JavaScript IDE, tools for JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and XML.

link:
- http://eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-javascript-web-developers/heliossr2

HTML5@Wikipedia

HTML5@Wikipedia: HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, a core technology of the Internet. It is the latest revision of the HTML standard (originally created in 1990 and most recently standardized as HTML4 in 1997) and currently remains under development. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers etc.). HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML4, but XHTML1 and DOM2HTML (particularly JavaScript) as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5

HTML5 & What's Next@Google I/O 2011

Mobile and desktop are converging on HTML5 as a strong, portable base for delivering rich experiences. Come learn about the future of HTML5, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript that will help you build better, richer apps even faster.

tech-buddy.blogspot.com

http://tech-buddy.blogspot.com/