Rework, think you know how business work? Think again.

When I heard that Signals37 was launching another book, the first thing I did is run to the local Chapster to get it.

If you do not know Signals37, you probably know one of their online product, like Basecamp (psssstt they also created ruby on rails). These guys have pretty strong opinions on how a business should be run and their view is really refreshing. This is not your typical business book, this is about 3 guys who wanted to get things done, that didn’t want to grow to much and not accept venture capitals.

Rework

This book is for you guys that are doing web apps late at night and you the freelancer and you the small web business owner. You can feel between the…

In video: The Future of Web Apps

Ben Galbraith & Dion Almaer – The Future of Web Applications from Øredev on Vimeo.

“The Ajax revolution saw a sea change in web application development. By taking advantage of long-dormant browser capabilities, we were able to take our craft to new levels–reinventing well-established genres, challenging desktop applications, and jump-starting a renaissance in web start-ups.”

In this presentation, recorded at Øredev 2009, Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith (Creators of Ajaxian.com) examine the many factors contributing to the web as platform and also explore what the next stage of evolution for the web might look like.”

Update: Please click on the video, I unfortunatly can’t embed it on the site

State of Internet Explorer 9 progress

I recently found an old article (3 months old) I did not read about IE9 progress.

There are some good news in it, first the javascript engine has been improved a lot. It is now comparable to others modern browsers (just a bit slower). Also, somewhat good news for CSS3 compliance, border-radius will be in IE9 and some other tweaks too. No word on border-shadow yet.

It is worth the read, of course we will know more in 1 week, at MIX2010.

Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 With Internet Explorer 9? Really?

I was pretty surprised to read this week an article on Webmonkey that was saying that Microsoft would certainly double down in IE9 on HTML5 and CSS3. I suggest you read it yourself, but basically it was saying that Microsoft would go on the offensive at the upcoming MIX2010 presenting IE9.

Silverlight…

I do not see Microsoft go on the offensive, I am pretty sure in fact that it will not implement any ‘Multimedia’ feature like Audio, Video and Canvas any time soon, and certainly not before it is kind of obligated because Youtube, for example, switched to html5. Why? Silverlight… This technology is a competitor to all these technologies. If you are not really into extranet and intranet development, you might not even know what Silverlight is, well…

The mobile webkit fixed position problem

If there is one thing you will be missing while developing your mobile web application for Webkit, it is the CSS fixed position. You cannot effectively fix an element on the iPhone, and mobile device are no powerhouse to emulate it with javascript. The problem is simple, yet there is no perfect solution to it.

On a mobile device you scroll a window, not the site

When you scroll on a mobile device, you are not really scrolling the site, in fact if you zoom out completely you will see the entire page, you are only scrolling your “window” around the site. When you understand this, your fixed footer dream really shatter, unless you are willing to use complex methods..

iScroll

And there start your quest, on your…

In video: Mozilla show the future of web file uploading

“Many web applications use image uploaders: image hosting websites, blog publishing applications, social networks, among many others. Such uploaders have limitations: you can’t upload more than one file at a time and you can’t edit the image before sending it. A plugin is the usual workaround for uploading more than one image, and image modifications are usually done on the server side, which can make the editing process more cumbersome.

Firefox 3.6 allows millions of people to take advantage of modern standards, including HTML5.
The image uploader described here shows how a web page should really be considered as an application since it interacts with your Desktop and works offline.”

All the information here.

Plupload, upload files using HTML5 with fallback for older browsers

Looking for a file upload script lately?

You can use it to upload files with HTML5 now, you can even drag and drop from your desktop, and just update it later to get all the browsers to get along when it will be supported.

It looks nice and it works!

Can you tell this video player is not in flash?

A nice HTML5 video player has popped up recently. The Sublime video player is an experimentation from Jillion and what can I say, I tried it on Chrome and it look pretty slick and powerful. It currently support the latest version of Firefox, Safari and chrome.

Now if browser vendors could get along on video format, our only problem would be Microsoft. I mean, common Apple, you could support h264 and OGG..

Introduction to ConnectedTV, a javascript development framework for TV widget

It is a good time to be a front-end developer and explore alternative technologies linked to the web. I already did an introduction to the excellent mobile jqtouch framework. This framework alleviates the work to create nice mobile websites and applications with front-end technologies. This time I wanted to do a small introduction to ConnectedTV from Yahoo.

A javascript framework for TV?

It is strange to think that a web technology powers widget for tv. In fact this is a little bit more complicated than that. The ConnectedTV framework is a kind of MVC javascript framework. Basically you have an init file where you define every routes and javascripts files. A “page” or “view” in the widget is a js file where you have basic functions that are…

jQTouch HTML5 database api extension

If you want to dive in mobile website and you are a good jQuery developer, you will love jQTouch. It’s one of the best mobile web framework out there.

However, one thing I found it was missing, was some database api. In webkit you now have access to one database per website address. Think of it as a better cookie. You could for example easily create a To do list with this feature.

Webkit is touchy about its database

You don’t mess with the webkit database, if you do, there is a good chance it will crash. Building this script, I never saw so much crash in Safari! so be careful using it. This script creates an abstraction of the webkit database api, it will enable you…