Web Info & Tutorials

December 5th, 2006

ZUDEO: AZUREUS TRIES TO MAKE MONEY

Zudeo is a service provided by the guys behind Azureus, to try to make a nice experience behind bittorrent.

Many people love bittorrent, but others curse the reality (no seeds, downloads that take 3 days, etc).

Zudeo.com is a companion website that launches Azureus via Java Web Start at the right moment to do the heavy lifting.

The UI on the web site is similar to what you get inside the Azureus client itself.

When you are used to a big PLAY button on a video, this still seems clunky.

December 5th, 2006

DOUGLAS CROCKFORD VIDEO: ADVANCED JAVASCRIPT

Douglas Crockford is “Yoda of lambda programming and JavaScript” (according to Brendan Eich), and he shows it in his presentations on all things JavaScript.

The Yahoo! UI team video-taped his Advanced JavaScript talk (which he gave at The Ajax Experience):

In this presentation — the third of a three-part series he has been teaching at Yahoo! — Douglas looks closely at code patterns from which JavaScript programmers can choose in authoring their applications. He compares familiar constructs like the Pseudoclassical Pattern with more unique patterns like the Parasitic Pattern that (he argues) run more “with the grain” of JavaScript.

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December 5th, 2006

WPF/E FIRST RELEASE AVAILABLE

The prototypal CTP promulgation of WPF/E is here.

“WPF/E” delivers a diminutive computer runtime that enables AJAX developers and designers to have richer, cross-platform, mutual scheme experiences. It module earmark applications to go beyond what crapper be finished with clean HTML today, and module enable sites to significantly meliorate the computer individual undergo by combining HTML UI, Dynamic Vector Graphics, Animation and Media into a unseamed cross-platform application experience.

“WPF/E” accomplishes this by providing a flush graphics engine that crapper be utilised on some HTML tender and which adds application hold for agent graphics, animation, and modality XAML UI markup (the modality XAML info enables wager engine improvement of mutual noesis as substantially as meliorate authoring via WYSIWYG tools). WPF/E also provides built-in recording and frequence codec hold for WMV, WMA and MP3 content. This effectuation you crapper today easily course mutual recording noesis to some application without requiring some added establish or runtime (Windows Media Player is not required).

Some grouping are agog to wager a mini WPF acquirable interbreed browser. Others are afraid of what it means.

The expression flat designer-tools are compelling, and crapper be utilised to developer WPF/E applications.

Adobe vs. Microsoft: Seconds out, ammo 2.

December 5th, 2006

PROTOPAGE V3: SHARING, PODCAST SUPPORT, AND MORE

Protopage keeps innovating and has just released version 3 of their personal portal.

There are many new features such as:

  • A new sharing system called 'instant collaboration' that lets you create a set of categorized color coded tabs
  • An internal news feed reader with keyboard shortcuts and multi-feed display
  • Special news feed widget modes: cartoon mode, thumbnail mode
  • Video and audio podcast support
  • Multi-category color coded tabs with instant page sharing
  • Drag and drop multi-level todo lists
  • Widget showcase and developer API, launching with 270 new widgets
  • Widget browser with previews and new calendar, clock, comment box and Protopuppy widgets
  • Edit-in-place sticky notes
  • Integrated search box with 750 preloaded search engines
  • Internet Explorer 6, 7, Firefox 1, 2, Opera 9 and Safari 2 browser support

Protopage v3

December 5th, 2006

JAVASCRIPT TOOLS: COVERAGE, MEMORY, AND PERFORMANCE VALIDATOR

Software Verification Limited has free a ordered of tools for JavaScript developers:

All threesome code tools impact with Firefox 1.0, 1.5, 2.0 and Flock 0.7. The website provides 30 period flooded useful assessment downloads as substantially as the flooded creation for purchase. The code tools currently separate on Windows NT/2000/XP/better.