Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
Monday, May 30th, 2011
 Each time when a company needs to create a website, it’s managers consider (at least) three Web development platforms: Microsoft’s ASP.NET/IIS/Windows Server, Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (the LAMP), and Sun Java J2EE.x.
What are the principle differences between them?
J2EE requires expensive high-power servers and it’s hard to implement it in most shared or dedicated hosting environments.
ASP.NET is usually chosen by Microsoft-savvy coders. The development tools are similar to every other MS application and the learning curve is relatively short. But the deployment of such systems is more expensive, than with the LAMP, because requires licensed Microsoft software.
LAMP has become so popular both for its functionality and the fact that it’s all open source (no licensing fees!). The installation of both ASP.NET and LAMP is not complicated, and we can’t say that in this aspect one of them is better than the other.
So what’s better for your web solution? (more…)
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Thursday, March 10th, 2011
 Google released Chrome 10, endowing its browser with faster JavaScript, password synchronization, a revamped preferences system–but no new Chrome logo. Chrome is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Google announced Chrome 10’s stable release on its blog but refrained from mentioning its product number. That’s in line with the company’s effort to focus on features rather than version numbers, which it calls mere milestones. Google tries to get new versions into users’ hands as rapidly as possible and currently passes a new milestone about once every six weeks.
JavaScript is the programming language used to write Web-based programs, and it’s steadily gaining in importance. That’s because programmers are now using it to write full-featured Web applications such as Gmail and Google Docs, not just Web pages, and faster JavaScript enables more features and a faster interface.
Chrome 10 comes with the “Crankshaft” version of the V8 browser engine that Google pegs as 66 percent faster than the unnamed version in Chrome 9 as measured with Google’s V8 Benchmark suite. That’s a major speed boost, but be aware there are many other attributes of browser performance, and one of the biggest–hardware acceleration–will hit prime time with the imminent release of Mozilla’s Firefox 4 and Microsoft’s IE9.
Chrome 10 gets some hardware acceleration, though, when it comes to playing videos, said Chrome team member Jason Kersey in a blog post.
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Monday, March 7th, 2011
The maker of Firefox is proposing a way to promote Web applications that differs from what Google has in mind.
Mozilla on Thursday launched a developer preview of its Web application platform, a more distributed version of what Google is doing with its Chrome Web Store.
Web applications are simply Web sites with an accompanying configuration file. This file, the manifest, contains extra information necessary to install the Web app, which in some instances may make it available when there’s no network connection.
Google’s Web app specification makes a distinction between installable Web apps and hosted Web apps. The former rely on Google Chrome Extension APIs and only run in the Chrome browser. The latter are simply what we know today as Web sites and they can be accessed by typing the appropriate URL into one’s Web browser.
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Tags: geolocation, google, google chrome, HTML5, mozilla, mozilla firefox, mozilla foundation, web app, web application, websites
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Friday, March 4th, 2011
Microsoft has rolled out a new incentive to attract and keep more Bing users: Group deals.
On March 3, Microsoft introduced “Bing deals” for the desktop and mobile (m.bing.com) via a partnership with The Dealmap. Via the partnership, Bing users in the U.S. will get access to “more than 200,000 unique offers in over 14,000 cities and towns,” according to Microsoft. The Dealmap aggregates group deals from sources including Groupon, Living Social and Restaurant.com, among other sites.
Update: For now, on the mobile front, Bing deals are for iPhone and Android phones only, as reader @thedavidk pointed out. Microsoft’s official statement: “The (deals) functionality is based on HTML5 and will work with phones that support it, but today is being released for iOS and Android. Windows Phone 7 announced that they will have HTML5 support in an update later this calendar year, at which point deals will work great on Windows Phone.”
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