Ajaxian has posted a book for Adobe AIR developers called “Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers”. The book is under Creative Commons license so it is free. The book has been out for sometime but this one is updated for AIR 1.0. You can get it here.
Google, Yahoo, and MySpace announced today the formation of OpenSocial Foundation. It is a move to help web developers build better social applications using OpenSocial API.
In my opinion, I think this is a big step towards Web 3.0 as some predicts that the World Wide Web will be seen as a single database in the web 3.0 era.
While doing my daily shifts in the World Wide Web and buzzering out of world class music with my surrounding sound system dancing all around my desk, I cracked out of my seat – again while still in music mood – with great news from Google jumping of my screen. That thing that came out my screen, that tiny little piece of text, that title is “Google Releases Language Translation API”.
The language API supports many languages such as Arabic, Chinese, France, Russian, and Korean and of course English. As clearly as their announcement is, it support 12 languages and cover 29 translation pairs and it is extremely easy to use for programmers.
For more information on how to use the API, you can check out the official documentation here. Be advised, it is made for Javascripters.
Microsoft, if you had read my last few post you’ll know they are dancing, has announced the launch of the first beta release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. More support for semantic web structures, therefore, web developers will find this beta version very useful especially if they want to keep up with latest technologies and weeding out the fads. Grab the browser here and add more tests in your testing environment arsenal!
I have heard recently that Angelina Jolie recently revealed that she doesn’t know how to turn on a computer although she acts as the famous Lara Croft, an adventurer and sadly a computer hacker.
Anyway, I found out this great article on how to make a good web design. The article also explains how users interact with different web site design styles and it also gives 10 Principles of Effective Web Design… I don’t really have time to write more about it :p
Adobe has announced the availability of Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 for public. With the release of AIR runtime, web technologies has now moved ahead one big step out of the browser into users desktop. Now you can deploy web technologies such as Flash and Ajax into desktop environment that runs across operating systems.
Adobe has also launched Open Source Site, and according to Adobe “This site presents the definitive view into open source activities at Adobe, including details regarding projects that Adobe participates in and hosts”.
And a great news at least for me, if you are a student or a faculty employment you can get a free version of Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro here.
Good web developer takes care of as much as possible of users browsing there web site whatever OS or web browser they are using. A good tool to do that is Browsershots that gives you a screenshot of many browsers and different version of every browser.
I found this great source of tutorials for anyone who’d like to learn a new JavaScript and Ajax framework. RoseIndia has a whole section in its web site just for Dojo Tutorial. A great free way to learn Ajax with step by step tutorials but you must have some knowledge in using JavaScript.
Believe it or not, XML is 10 years old! Happy Birthday!
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