Xmarks available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
I'm sure that you know Firefox's addon called Xmarks. It allow you to synchronize your bookmarks with other browsers (as Safari, etc.).
Now you can use it on you Apple mobile device to get your bookmarks and use them with Safari Mobile.
Available on the AppStore for $0,99.
I got it and I'm a fan !!
Source : Xmarks official site
HipHop for PHP – what now ?
6 months ago, Facebook unveiled Hip Hop, with impressive performance gains.
The announcement corresponds to reality, reducing CPU consumption by about 50%. But the team did not stop there, and was successful in optimizing a bit more speed and thus performance. Although the code is open source and begins to be deployed to other PHP projects like Drupal, MediaWiki, phpBB, WordPress.
Scott of Facebook shows the direction of the next estimates as support for FreeBSD and 32-bit environments or as Mac OS X.
Source : Facebook's Engineering Note
Joomla! Community Magazine
The Joomla! Project proudly announces the August 2010 Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine. The magazine is a collection of articles and illustrations highlighting events and accomplishments of the free software community behind Joomla!, an award-winning open source content management system.
AndroidMarket rise above the 100’000 applications
The figure is more symbolic than historical. But it still reflects, among other signs, the success of Google's mobile OS, especially among the developer community.
According AndroLib, a company that has made a specialty of analyzing the Android Market, the gallery of the OS just to rise above the 100,000 applications.
The second is that the company includes in its assessment of applications (about 18,000) who have subsequently been withdrawn (including malicious applications that used the Android flaws revealed at Black Hat Conference for the last?).
The number of downloadable applications has substantially exceeded one billion.
An impressive figure which does not suffer him, no comment.
Source : AndroLib Report
WordPress : PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement
Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the requirements for running WordPress. Now is one of those times. You probably guessed it from the title — we’re finally ready to announce the end of support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4!
First up, the announcement that developers really care about. WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010, will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4.
Source : WordPress official post
The Computer History Museum released the source code of MacPaint
MacPaint is a software for creating and editing bitmap developed by the company Apple.
MacPaint made his first appearance in 1984 with the first Macintosh 128k and the software is the most impressive one, MacPaint is a software that is known to Apple in the '80s with new novel, with MacPaint so just use the mouse to paint, draw, erase, color, select, erase ... You click on one of the tools and then used in the work area. At that time the software was unique and he was also capable of creating images for use in other applications.
MacPaint is written in Pascal and contains 5822 lines of code and 4,000 lines of assembler for Motorola 68K in 5 files. It weighs 67.8 k0.
The sources are provided with MacPaint those of QuickDraw, the graphics creation library.
Source : http://www...seum.html
Firefox 4 beta1 available
Mozilla has posted the first beta version of Firefox 4. Finally, tell the impatient, as it was expected by early June, then postponed to mid-June
The arrival of this beta confirms the work areas of the development team of browser plug-in insulation for greater stability (the 'Lorentz'), supports HTML 5 (see also "A member of Mozilla claims that Apple and Google want to own the HTML5 ") and shorter startup time.
The interface is also reviewed in depth.
Minimal for some and major for the other, the tabs are now placed by default at the top of the browser (the famous "tabs-on-top *" popularized by Chrome). You can still return them to their traditional place in two small clicks.
A "Firefox" menu centralized (inspired by the Opera?) Also appeared.
Finally, the management interface extensions has been totally redesigned - Electrolysis first demonstration project designed to completely isolate the extensions and allow their installation in warm (without restart of Firefox).
For developers, Mozilla said the following new features:
- A HTML5 parser
- Support for WebSocket
- The use of IndexedDB
- The addition of a Web console Analysis
- And of course, a simplified development of extensions with the integration of the SDK Jetpack
Finally we note without surprise the official support of the codec Webm, for "accelerated HD video (see above).
The complete list of new "under the hood" is available online.
Firefox becomes the default browser of 400,000 IBM employees
A few hours ago, IBM announced a major change in its computers: Firefox browser will now default on desktops over 400,000 employees.
A new pet who comes in the direction of hair loss a browser full speed. The Mozilla software is indeed stagnating since reaching the 25% market share in November. The latest figures even show a slight decline, puisquee Firefox is used by 24.30% of Internet users in June 2010. And despite the arrival a few months ago the bundle Windows screen (which lets you choose the browser).
Competition is fierce, and Chrome (Google's rival) has quite a success. It is also now the third world browser.
However, the choice of IBM stopped on Firefox. Why? The software:
- est extrêmement compatible avec les standards ouverts du web
- est open source et son développement assuré par une communauté qui n'est pas contrôlée par une entité commerciale
- est sécurisé
- propose des extensions qui peuvent être personnalisées par des organisations comme IBM
- est innovant et a forcé la main à la compétition pour s'améliorer
Source : Bob Sutor's blog (IBM Linux and open source responsible)
Google announced the integration of Gmail in HTML5
During the 2010 Usenix WebApps Boston, Adam Boor, an engineer at Google, has announced that Gmail would incorporate new functionalities for HTML 5.The goal of development teams is to reduce the loading time of pages of online messaging. With HTML 5, it should drop below the second.
The use of CSS3 instead of Document Object Model (FOD) should lead to such a gain of 12% in rendering service pages.
Listed functionalities, the gradual adoption of future standard by the major browsers should also allow the generalization of drag and drop attachments from the desktop to the window messaging. Adam Boor unveiled the feature contrast, drag and drop from the browser to the desktop, is also being investigated but that it would not be achieved through HTML 5 but with a new data transfer protocol internally dubbed "DownloadURL".
Early confirmation Google thinks very hard about HTML 5 (and its application cache) to replace Gears. The Cache application can use the browser's cache to work offline with an application such as Cloud originally hosted. There is such need to be logged in (e) to write text in Google Docs (see also "Google Docs: more features").
Until Gmail operated the proprietary technology of Google Gears. The mail then migrate progressively towards the use of these "super cookies" HTML 5. For the record, Adam de Boor has also revealed that the Gmail program consisted of 443,000 lines of JavaScript. A figure rises to almost 980,000 lines if it adds the comments.
For those who wonder whether the use of Java to build such a service could not have been more appropriate, Adam de Boor said that yes, this technology might have been more optimized but that language was ultimately more "wordy" than JavaScript.
For him, most criticisms to JavaScript does not come from other language itself, but how it is implemented in browsers.
He concluded that the most important issue was ultimately not much choice of Java or JavaScript but how to produce the best possible code based on the language used.
No timetable or roadmap, however, have been given concerning the integration of HTML 5 in Gmail.
Source : developpez.com
OwnCloud
Owncloud is a centralized space to store files and documents. You need not download your personal data to a server like google docs closed since all data is under your control.
The access to this space can be done by WebDAV from Linux, Mac, Windows or directly from the web interface.
Data transfer is secure via SSL you can do with PHP.
This first version has many features of bases but the next version will store more stuff (storage, contacts, emails, metadata ...)