Exciting news for all web developers and mashup freaks: Microsoft just released its fourth overall preview of their Internet Explorer 10. Especially aimed at you, new features and better HTML5 functionalities improve possibilities for the creation of Web applications. However, there is one caveat: The new release only works on the Windows 8 preview release which …
I recently came across this fine piece of programming after weeding through the IT blogosphere. And since activity on this site has all but stopped for a while, I thought it was high time to get back on track and once more let you know about some of the exciting stuff out there. Bibliogo is …
For those of you thinking about creating your own mashups, we can get you started with some easy steps through the process. This post is not so much about the coding itself but about what youll need to think about before getting started. First, you should think about the subject that you want to address …
Computer Scientists at the University of Southern California are working on an application embedding real-time data in online maps. What they call geo-immersion is a technology that will go significantly further than previous generations of mashups. Based on everyday on-line mapping services like Google Maps, the folks at South Carolina had the idea to capture information from the real world and render it into virtual data …
For those that used to work with Popfly, Microsofts Game Lab “Kodu” (speak: Code-ooh) might be an adequate replacement. For the longest time it was only available for XBox 360, but since 2010 a PC-version exists as well. Simple but fun games are quickly created and without source code or compilers its a simple way to program games …
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Exciting news for all web developers and mashup freaks: Microsoft just released its fourth overall preview of their Internet Explorer 10. Especially aimed at you, new features and better HTML5 functionalities improve possibilities for the creation of Web applications. However, there is one caveat: The new release only works on the Windows 8 preview release which Microsoft released in September.
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I recently came across this fine piece of programming after weeding through the IT blogosphere. And since activity on this site has all but stopped for a while, I thought it was high time to get back on track and once more let you know about some of the exciting stuff out there. Bibliogo is a journal article web app that will help you keep track of what is happening in your respective line of work. Bibliogo alerts you to the newest publications, it gives you access to them, it facilitates collaboration and sharing – in short: it makes the web a whole lot more efficient for you.
Photo: Jack Amick
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The World on Your Screen
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For those that used to work with Popfly, Microsofts Game Lab “Kodu” (speak: Code-ooh) might be an adequate replacement. For the longest time it was only available for XBox 360, but since 2010 a PC-version exists as well. Simple but fun games are quickly created and without source code or compilers its a simple way to program games – no programming knowledge required. The way it works is fairly straightforward: Per mouse click you pick and place objects in your “world” and assign them properties and behaviors. “Kodu” provides you with the graphical development environment and in several tutorials your first steps are adequately explained. Additionally, some games that have been developed with “Kudo” are included in the “Kodu Game Lab” package which can be downloaded at fuse.microsoft.com/page/kodu.aspx. Of course, the source code is never more than the stroke of a key away if you want to make changes directly in the code.
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Since Popfly was mainly a Mashup tool, we should devote some time to the concept before starting off: A mashup (a term borrowed from the musical blending of two or more songs) is essentially an online application that lends services from third party applications and uses these services for its own purposes. The benefits are apparent: if someone else has done the work, you don’t need to do it anymore, so you save time and money. Even advanced mashups might only take an hour to create if you are experienced. Mashups are a classical feature of the Web 2.0 world: The content comes from multiple sources, such as public interfaces or web feeds (like RSS or Atom), JavaScript may be included, screen scraping (extracting data from human-readable output originating elsewhere) a frequent technique. A popular source for data are eBay, Amazon, Google and Yahoo APIs.