Adobe wasn't kidding when they said they were riding the HTML5 bandwagon as hard as anybody right now. Rather than compete with the new web standard, Adobe has created their own HTML5 video player widget which has total CSS customizability and...
0 replies - 20757 views - 10/24/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The CSS3-based framework for dynamically resizing text columns on various form factors just got better. The Less Framework will resize columns in a browser from 2 columns on a smartphone, to 5 columns in a tablet or netbook, and up to 8 columns in a...
0 replies - 20703 views - 08/29/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Google's Chief Java Architect Joshua Bloch just announced on the Google Code Blog that he and Google would not be at JavaOne this year due to the Oracle lawsuit. According to another blog entry by another Googler, all sessions with a presenter from Google...
20 replies - 27760 views - 08/27/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The lightweight Groovy toolkit for Google App Engine, Gaelyk, has reached 0.4.3. This release includes a new standard hierarchy approach in the logging infrastructure for Groovlets and Templates. Simple Entity and POJO/POGO mapping through type coercion...
0 replies - 11909 views - 08/02/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Google announced that it would be rendering many upcoming features for Gmail in HTML5. Dragging and dropping files from the desktop into the browser will be just one new feature in Gmail's new standards-based update. Google will also leverage HTML5's...
0 replies - 11540 views - 06/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
In recent interviews, the CEO of Mozilla and the CTO of Opera have said that they support VP8's inclusion in the HTML5 specification. However, all is not well right now in determining a license for WebM (the package that includes VP8). Google is having...
1 replies - 13594 views - 05/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Adobe is encouraging employees to eat their own mobile dogfood by giving them all free Android phones (which will soon be running Flash 10.1) at the Google I/O conference. This is an effort to promote company unity behind the iPhone's competitors after...
0 replies - 13730 views - 05/02/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Johnathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun recently said what he couldn't say about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when he was with the company. "I feel for Google," said Schwartz, "Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too." Jobs called Schwartz...
0 replies - 14907 views - 03/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors Updated
0 replies - 16153 views - 02/18/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Mozilla Shifting Extensions to Jetpack and Personas
0 replies - 13396 views - 01/11/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
