AJAX Reporter -- Single Source for the Latest AJAX Jobs and Info http://www.ajaxreporter.com Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:20:15 -0500 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/logo.jpg http://www.ajaxreporter.com Feed provided by AJAX Reporter -- Single Source for the Latest AJAX Jobs and Info. http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=17604 HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before years end. Some people see a life for the associated Enyo JavaScript Read the rest... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=17605 What book editing isn't better the second time around? Like a dog returns to his vomit and the fool to his folly, the author must return to his writing. And with the past week, my author team and I have finished our AR and Production Editing for Wrox's "Professional Android with Mono for Android and .NET/C#." We are literally 8 months from being AR and PE complete the first time around (I really hope that there isn't a third). ... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=17582 [Image]Shoutcast maintains a radio directory of 50,000+ radio stations from all around the world. The company, owned by AOL, released its first Shoutcast API a few years ago, but has since released version 2.0. The updated API provides developers with more advanced options for integrating music streaming services into web services and mobile applications using RESTful calls formatted in XML, JSON and RSS. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=17571 My article on HTML5 for Mobile Devices at Dev Pro Connections Magazine has now been published.HTML5 is the umbrella term for the next major evolution of markup, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for web applications. HTML5 is becomingan ever-more important mobile development technology -- especially in light of Adobe's recent announcement that it's ceasing development on FlashPlayer for mobile browsers and increasing its investments in HTML5. ... Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=17539 Shim was developed within the Boston Globe’s media lab as a way to study how Web sites look on various devices and browsers. A laptop intercepts all wifi traffic this is redirected to a custom node.js server – which inserts a javascript, or “shim,” at the head of each web page that is visited. Read the rest... Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=17524 [Image]Weather has always been a popular category with 26 Weather APIs listed in our directory. While XML is still the leading data format used, the trend of JSON becoming the developer's choice over the last few years is also reflected in the Weather category. Since the beginning of 2010, JSON is the leading data format used by Weather APIs with 11 added to the directory out of 12 JSON weather APIs. The chart below shows the breakdown of APIs using various data formats. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=17498 In the fall of last year I was happy to be interviewed by Helen Emerson for The Developer Book Club. We were talking about books that inspired me when I first got into web development, books that shaped my knowledge about JavaScript and various approaches. We also discussed the future of the web, languages, learning [...] Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=17480 Were looking for an amazing Web Developer Intern for a paid, 4-month internship. Fast Forward Four Months… Wed like to thank you for doing a fantastic job as our 2012 Winter Web Developer Intern. You’ve driven the launch of a new web site for our latest conference. You worked your magical HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript/JQuery [...] Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=17413 [Image]JavaScript has been one of the most talked languages this year. It rules not only on the client-side, but has also made significant inroads into server side architectures, especially if you consider themind sharethat Node.js received this year. It will not be a surprise if API vendors put a JavaScript API on top of their list next year as part of their client libraries. ... Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.ajaxreporter.com/newsreader.php?newsid=17354 Greetings Programs! Well-designed REST APIs can be leveraged to create balanced client-server web applications; where the client's responsibilities extend far beyond simply rendering a server-generated HTML document. Web sites and applications have been slowly shifting to this architecture since Internet Explorer 5's inclusion of the core AJAX mechanics, DOM scripting and XHR. More recently, the architectural shift has been accelerated by significant advances in standards (e.g. ... Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500