"We’re excited to add a port of Apache CouchDB (home site, Wikipedia), the most widely deployed document-oriented database, to complement the data persistence APIs on the PlayBook. CouchDB is a NoSQL database featuring a RESTful JSON API, ACID semantics and a distributed architecture with replication"
"The HR cost of landing an individual programmer might be $50-100k for a large company. That’s taking into account advertising, headhunter fees, interviewing time and internal staff"
"The Web platform: Browser technologies: a great juming off point for info and resources from @sideshowbarker"
"under the hood of the APIs that form the bulk of the HTML5 spec and tells us about their purpose and progress"
"At Audi, we see HTML5 as an essential ingredient for creating the next generation of user experiences in the vehicle"
"QNX Software Systems application platform, CAR™ 2, allows automotive developers to harness the user experience of HTML5 on a software foundation already proven in millions of vehicles. Designed to enable rapid development of in-car infotainment systems, the CAR 2 platform introduces a new, auto-centric HTML5 framework."
HTML5 Web Security describes issues, vulnerabilities, threat & attack scenarios and countermeasures across 80 pages including numerous well thought-out diagrams, and is backed up with detailed references and an appendix full of attack details. The main sections are: 2.2 Cross-origin resource sharing
2.3 Web storage
2.4 Offline web application
2.5 Web messaging
2.6 Custom scheme and content handlers
2.7 Web sockets API
2.8 Geolocation API
2.9 Implicit relevant features of HTML5
Web workers, new elements, attributes and CSS, Iframe sandboxing and server-sent events
2.3 Web storage
2.4 Offline web application
2.5 Web messaging
2.6 Custom scheme and content handlers
2.7 Web sockets API
2.8 Geolocation API
2.9 Implicit relevant features of HTML5
Web workers, new elements, attributes and CSS, Iframe sandboxing and server-sent events
audiolib.js is a powerful toolkit for audio written in JS. It ships with most of the common tools such as: Reverbs
Comb/IIR/Biquad/All-Pass/Low-Pass/Band-Pass/High-Pass filters
Delays
Oscillators
FFT and other analyzing tools
Step sequencers
Envelope controls
Noise generators
Samplers
Comb/IIR/Biquad/All-Pass/Low-Pass/Band-Pass/High-Pass filters
Delays
Oscillators
FFT and other analyzing tools
Step sequencers
Envelope controls
Noise generators
Samplers
"PhoneGap 1.3 is out. “In this release, we’ve made great progress with BlackBerry and Windows Phone"
"This page explains how to write websites that do not break when new browser versions are released. This is especially important for intranets and other non-public websites; if we can’t see your code, we can’t see that it broke. It’s not always possible to follow all of these, but following as many of them as possible will help future-proof your website"
"Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user interfaces (via @manusporny)"
Badass JavaScript: Introducing ALAC.js: An Apple Lossless Audio Decoder in JavaScript →
Recently, Apple open sourced the original encoder and decoder for the Apple Lossless audio codec which is written in C/C++. ALAC is, as its name implies, a lossless codec, which means that it is compressed but does not lose any quality. When decoded, ALAC audio files are bit-for-bit identical…
"Why you shouldn’t use MP3 in your HTML5 games"
