Today is the day of Muslims’ Eid ul-Adha religious festival. In this Eid some Muslims go to Haj (pilgrimage) in Mecca to worship and get closer to God. Others celebrate the Eid by visiting relatives and friends.
I don’t know if these websites provides accurate information about the festival, but here are some links to get some information about this Islamic holiday:
Amazing commercial video
Adobe has announced the BlazeDS beta release on Adobe labs. Now you can connect data between your Flash application and any other applications whether it is made by PHP, Ruby…etc.
Now, developers can easily connect to back-end distributed data, as well as push data in real-time to Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ applications, for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences.
Ajaxian‘s Ajax survey shows that Prototype is the most used framework for Javascript and Ajax. That’s really shocking, or at least for me, I never though Prototype is that famous. But still, Dojo is my favorite 🙂
Google announced the release of a new charting API that can be easily embedded within a webpage using the <IMG> HTML tag. You send the parameter for charting specification using HTTP request, and then Google will return the chart as a PNG images. Currently, Google provides these following charts:
• Line chart
• Scatter plot
• Bar chart
• Venn diagram
• Pie chart
To illisturate how easy it is to embed a chart to a webpage, here is an example taken from Google Chart faq:
<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?
chs=200x125
&chd=s:helloWorld
&cht=lc
&chxt=x,y
&chxl=0:|Mar|Apr|May|June|July|1:||50+Kb"
alt="Sample chart" />
The boundary of web applications is over and we are now pushing forward to the next killer applications era. More and more mash-ups applications are lighten up with new unpredictable features provided for free. Google is taking the upper hand to cast aside old convention of web design and use ready-on-the-shelf professional web applications.
AppJet, a new online IDE for developing client or server sided web applications. The IDE supports syntax highlighting, editing, reviewing, and publishing the code within the web browser.
More and more web-based applications are appearing in the market nowadays. One of the greatest is Buzzword, an online word processing program acquired lately by Adobe. Also, Bungee Labs, a beautiful on-demand web based application to develope web applications for free for non-commercial projects.
So there is a web gravity to mobilize computer applications and webitize it. Hmmmm, formula for web gravity = (Web Constant) X (2007) / (Windows + Mac) – (Flash + Ajax)^2 !!!
Warning: Spoiler!
Problem 1: A nerdy web developer is attempting to create an application. He is considering two platform options to work on. One of these options is making the application a web based application. He decided the Windows factor will be 1.3 and Mac to be 1.1, however, the Flash factor is 2.875 and Ajax factor is 3.2. Answer the followings:
a) What is the web gravity value?
b) Should he invest his application on the web?
Nice Motion Graphic that I would like to share.
An Average Idea from Lindsey Testolin on Vimeo.
Holycow… lol funny way to start a post. But that’s true! I haven’t been reading my feeds for a week or more because I have been busy doing my school works. Look at the number of feeds I still got to read!
Oh god! it’s gonna take forever!
Or should I say Chanukkah? Spelling doesn’t matter. Different parts of the world has different spellings but the word Hanukkah in Jewish means “dedication”. Today is December 12, the last day of Hanukkah Festival.
Hanukkah, aka Festival of Light, is an annual 8 days Jewish holiday to celebrate and to commemorate the rededication of the Second Temple which was burned by the Greek empire. The temple was located in the occupied Palastine territory. This festival involves 8 candles each one is lighten-up in each of the Hanukkah holiday.
I do not celebrate this festival but it is nice to know other’s culture and festivals.
Ladies and Gentlemen… The winner of the International Collegiate Programming Contest, Arab and North Africa Regional Contest, is Cairo University. Congratulation for Cairo University and best of luck for all institutions in next year’s contest! Interested on viewing the problems?! Check it out here.
