Category Archives: web applications

The Tipping Point

Posted on May 9, 2012 by cpjobling

Early on this term I decided that HTML5 had reached sufficient traction to make it worth changing the flavour of HTML to be covered in my two modules EG-146 and EG-259. Now it seems that the media is starting to … Continue reading →

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The Trouble with Apps

Posted on February 8, 2012 by cpjobling

Here’s the thing. You take your tablet PC to lunch with the intention of reading the latest on the RSS feeds. You open your news reader, you like an article, you want to share. One option is twitter. You try … Continue reading →

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Techno-glut

Posted on March 2, 2011 by cpjobling

I’ve been gorging on new technology this week. It all started with Episode 6 of Doug Crockford’s “Crockford on JavaScript“, an excellent series of evening Yahoo! technical talks that on the history of programming and the JavaScript language that originally … Continue reading →

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The Future of HTML5 as Seen by Eric Schmidt

Posted on February 17, 2011 by cpjobling

This statement from Eric Schmidt’s keynote at the Mobile World Congress 2011 as quoted by Charles Arthur in the Guardian Tech Blog as some key implications for the future of internet app development. He said some other things too, but … Continue reading →

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Tweetdeck Chrome App

Posted on February 9, 2011 by cpjobling

I’ve just installed the new TweetdDeck app for Google Chrome and like what I see so far. It takes the “that’s so obvious, why wasn’t it done before” idea of combining (TweetDeck calls this blending) all your feeds into three … Continue reading →

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More on BBC Mobile

Posted on August 8, 2010 by cpjobling

On the theme of mobile web accessibility (#thereisawebappforthat) I did some more exploration of the BBC’s mobile (http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile) web site and discovered that there is a mobile version of iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/iplayer which streams video in MP4 format suitable for … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome App Maker

Posted on September 4, 2008 by cpjobling

One of the nice features of the newly released beta of Google Chrome is the feature that makes it easy to convert a tab into a standalone desktop application shortcut which you can add to your desktop, quick launch and … Continue reading →

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Google I/0 2008 Keynote

Posted on May 29, 2008 by cpjobling

I have just finished watching the keynote of the Google I/O 2008 conference that took place at 9.30 am Las Vegas time yesterday and was posted on YouTube almost straight away afterwards. The conference is aimed at developers, but there’s … Continue reading →

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Better Web Application Framework: Followup

Posted on January 22, 2008 by cpjobling

While going through my feed-reader today, I came across another potential framework, which I can add to the list mentioned earlier. This is Project Zero, an incubator project being developed by IBM. It uses the Java platform and the scripting … Continue reading →

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Better Web Application Framework

Posted on January 17, 2008 by cpjobling

For a web application that I am developing as part of a research project I have decided on using Python for the business logic. The reasons being that the application will use fixed-point binary arithmetic, units, and data output as … Continue reading →

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