Tim Lee of Sequoia Capital: Future of smartphone businesses
Recently Tim Lee of Sequoia Capital, a venture capitalist fund, spoke with developers at Dophin Browser’s San Francisco location about the future of smartphone companies. The current generation
Android environment setup
I have learned several things when setting up a development environment for Android on Windows. First and foremost, long path names and Windows access control may introduce issues for Java, Eclipse,
Twisted: an event-driven server for Python
I attended an introduction to Twister, a Python asynchronous engine, on July 13, 2012, at Rackspace’s new office. This asynchronous engine is a modular library that
Web technologies stack
| server side scripting | Asynchronous server | web framework | use cases | code in web browser | database | client side scripting | |
| Python | rpy | Twisted | Django | server, numerical, scripts,middle | |||
| PHP | php | middle | MySQL | ||||
| JavaScript | node.js | Connect/Express | client, server, Flash | MVC: backbone,DOM: jQuery,helper: underscore | MongoDB | Browser JavaScript | |
| Ruby | erb | EventMachine | Rails | server, middle | sqlite3, Postgres | ||
| NET | aspx | Windows server, middle | Silverlight | MS SQL Server | |||
| Java | jsp | Play 2.0 | server, client, middle | Java applets |
Games: current state of the art
On Wednesday, June 13th, 2012, I attended the meetup of the Silicon Valley’s IGDA (International Game Developers Association) at San Francisco’s Autodesk
Explosion of functional programming: part 2
Functional programming languages are gaining significant traction
Firefox OS / Boot to Gecko: a phone OS written in a web browser
On June 26th, 2012 I attended the HTML 5 meetup in Microsoft’s local sale office. This HTML 5 meetup invited Rob Hawkes and Chris Heilman
Creating HTML 5 mobile applications
On Thursday June 21st I attended the PhoneGap meetup at Adobe’s office, which was the old site of Macromedia. In this PhoneGap meeting Marcos Lara presented his Audiovroom project. He introduced
Future of the Microsoft presentation languages – XAML, Silverlight, Windows Forms
As a follow up to my previous blog posting about HTML 5, I hypothesize the demise of existing Microsoft technologies currently being used today. These technologies are Silverlight and XAML with C# code-behind.
Significant adoption of HTML 5 + Javascript
I have noticed recently a massive drive by large and small companies towards supporting HTML 5 for writing applications. Most notable are Windows 8 applications, which can be written in HTML 5 + Javascript,