Microsoft Campfire 2012 Singapore happening on 13-14th April

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Apr 092012
 

Microsoft Campfire 2012 Singapore

Microsoft Campfire 2012 Singapore is a 2 day campfire conference of cutting edge learning and inspiration from the great minds of the industry – Rob Miles (Microsoft Windows Phone MVP), Shane Morris (Australia’s most respected user experience professionals), and Hammad Rajjoub (Microsoft Architect Evangelist) – just to name a few.

Join in for an action-packed conference designed especially for developers, designers, UX experts and entrepreneurs in the web technology space.

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[Presentation] HTML5 for ASP.NET Developers

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Jan 132012
 

I did this talk at this year’s Community Technology Update 2012 at Blk 71 on 7th January 2012. Apparently, HTML5 is the highlight for the Developer Track.

HTML5 is the next wave of development for the web, with the support from IE9 and IE10. Even Windows 8 will support native apps written in HTML5. This session will give an overview and a deeper dive into writing effective HTML5 together with your existing ASP.NET experience to create the best next generation web experience.

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RIM Unveils BlackBerry BBX – a Next Generation Platform for BlackBerry Smartphones and Tablets

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Oct 192011
 

BlackBerry BBX is the next generation mobile platform that takes the best of the BlackBerry platform and the best of the QNX platform to connect people, devices, content and services.

The BlackBerry BBX platform will include BBX-OS, and will support BlackBerry cloud services and development environments for both HTML5 and native developers. BBX will also support applications developed using any of the tools available today for the BlackBerry PlayBook – including Native SDK, Adobe AIR/Flash and WebWorks/HTML5, as well as the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps – on future BBX-based tablets and smartphones.

Additional announcements and highlights from BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011 include:

  • BlackBerry WebWorks and HTML5 apps compatible with current BlackBerry smartphones and tablets will run on future BBX-based devices - http://developer.blackberry.com/html5
  • Native SDK for BlackBerry PlayBook goes gold; released for general availability
  • BlackBerry Cascades is a rich user interface framework coming to a future release of the Native SDK.
  • SDK for Adobe AIR Now Supports Adobe AIR 3.0
  • BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Developer Beta now available, includes BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps - https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/android/bpaa/
  • BlackBerry Open Source Initiative to port popular Open Source libraries to the BlackBerry PlayBook platform, like Bullet Physics and Box2DX, scripting languages like Lua, multimedia libraries like OpenAL and SDL, gaming frameworks like Cocos2DX and general-purpose libraries like Boost and Qt. - http://blackberry.github.com

When can I use… Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers

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Sep 192011
 

When can I use… is a website that shows the compatibility support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers. Great resource for web developers trying to figure out which desktop or mobile browsers support which features of HTML5, CSS3, etc.

Check it out here at http://caniuse.com.

DOM, HTML5, & CSS3 Performance by Paul Irish (Video)

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Sep 082011
 

A very informative video by Paul Irish on how to code fast performant websites with DOM, HTML5, and CSS3. Paul Irish is a lead developer of Modernizr, CSS3 Please and HTML5 Boilerplate (creator).

In this 30min video he covers:

  • Reflows, what they are and how to avoid them
  • Hardware accelerated CSS, how to trigger it
  • Letting the browser optimize animation for you with requestAnimationFrame
  • Web Workers
  • Benchmarking
  • Build scripts

IE10 Developer Platform Preview 2 Available for Download

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Jun 302011
 

IE10 Platform Preview 2, a technical release aimed at web developers, is now available for download.

There are lots of new improvements and implementations of HTML5 and CSS3 like:

  • Beautiful and interactive Web applications are easier to deliver with support for several new technologies like CSS3 Positioned Floats, HTML5 Drag-drop, File Reader API, Media Query Listeners and initial support for HTML5 Forms.
  • HTML5 Application performance improves across the board, as well as the ability to deliver better performance with more efficient use of battery life with new technologies like Web Workers with Channel Messaging, Async script support, and others.
  • Web application security improves using the same markup with support for HTML5 Sandbox for iframe isolation.

You can read the full list here in the IE10 developer guide.

HTML5 & CSS3 Update for Visual Studio 2010

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Jun 222011
 

Finally! HTML5 & CSS3 standards support for Visual Studio 2010. Download it now!

HTML5
VS Web Standards Update provides you intellisense and validation for most common HTML 5 features like:

    Browser APIs

    • Geo-Location – Having location aware websites is growing trend and now you will have full intellisense and validation within Visual Studio for creating websites which are location aware.  For sample view the source for the IE9 test drive demo.
    • Local Storage – IE has been supporting local storage from IE8 onwards, now Visual Studio will provide you with full fidelity intellisense to create sites which can save state within browser.  For sample of try view source on HTML5 Demo Site

    CSS3

    This update supports intellisense and validation for most of the CSS3 modules including:

    Additionally, if you are trying to make websites which work on a variety of platforms and browsers you will love the fact that Web Standards Update not only supports IE specific prefixes like –ms; but also other vendor prefixes like –webkit and –moz.

    Sharable Links

    PS: The Web Standards Update works on both VS 2010 SP1 and VWD Express 2010 SP1.  Being a VS Extension, it does not support certain CSS3 selector syntax & Browser API intellisense which would require servicing the shipping bits.

    Blackberry Playbook Available in Singapore in June (Pre-order now)

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    Jun 102011
     

    The BlackBerry PlayBook is a dual core, multi-processing, multi-tasking, ultra-thin, enterprise-ready, performance-grade tablet. Perfect for either large organisations or an “army of one”, the BlackBerry PlayBook is designed to give users what they want, including uncompromised web browsing with full Adobe Flash support, true multitasking and high performance multimedia, while also providing advanced security features, out-of-the-box enterprise support and a breakthrough development platform for IT departments and developers.

    Customers can pre-register the BlackBerry PlayBook from 9th June 2011 onwards and will be available for customers to pick-up within the month.

    Pre-order prices from Harvey Norman:

    • 16GB @ S$668
    • 32GB @ S$798
    • 64GB @ S$928

    Key Features:

    1. Ultra portable (7″), ultra thin (1cm) and super convenient (425g) for both work and play
    2. Multitasking powerhouse (1 GHz dual-core processor)
    3. Uncompromised Web Browsing (HTML5 and Adobe Flash 10.1)
    4. High Performance Multimedia (Dual HD cameras, HDMI-out port)
    5. BlackBerry Integration (Blackberry Bridge)
    6. Enterprise Ready (BIS and BES support)
    7. QNX Neutrino Reliability
    8. An OS Built for Developers


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    Improvements from Symbian Anna

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    Jun 062011
     

    Symbian Anna is the first major software update from Nokia. The newly release Nokia E6 and X7 will come with Symbian Anna, and updates for the rest of the Symbian^3 phones, namely Nokia N8, C7, C6-01 and E7 will be made available in Q3/2011.

    Symbian Anna comes with the following improvements from Symbian^3:

    New icons, enhanced usability

    • New squircle style icons for applications
    • Folders are denoted by a squircle that looks like a folder
    • Portrait QWERTY keyboard for text input (can change back to T9 keypad)
    • A split screen when entering text into web pages and apps (not a separate input text)

    Better web browser

    • New Webkit (AppleWebKit/533.4)
    • Faster (about 3x) JavaScript engine
    • Improved website error prompts/security warnings
    • IDN support
    • Better performance and memory optimization, including page load time
      • Improved webpage rendering with hardware acceleration
      • Smoother and sharper font rendering
      • CSS3 animations
      • Support for high DPI screens
      • Smooth scrolling (up to 60 fps)
      • Better fit to mobile screen with view-port tag support
      • Achieved score of 111 on html5test.com
    • UI/UX improvements:
      • Simplified UI
      • Back-button always visible
      • URL field always visible
      • Integrated Search
      • Open to Homepage by default
      • Easy exit from extension
      • Long tap to copy/open links in new window

    New Ovi maps

    • Predictive Search
    • Integrated social media features with check-in to Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare
    • New public transport lines
    • Ability to download and update full country maps directly to smartphone via WiFi
    • Ability to share places via email and SMS, and also with friends using non-Nokia phones

    Business users

    • Instant messaging and presence with Microsoft Communicator Mobile
    • Email enhancements that include full meeting request support
    • Business grade security hardware-accelerated device encryption

     

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