This is an interesting blog that organizes meetings in Athens from time to time where people who work on the web have the chance to share their experience and look for new projects… (At least this is how it looked to me! Since the whole website is in Greek and i´m not an expert yet ;) ).
On December 22nd, they organized a meeting in the center of Athens, where some nice talks about web technology took place , it was a pitty for me since i couldn´t attend! Next time!
After reading the blog and the meeting speakers on it, i realized there are plenty of interesting projects and general web trends moving on here in Athens. Some of them are listed here below:
You need general web technologies knowledge, a text editor, and the chrome beta channel installed, the rest is about building a common website with some rules and helpers.
I could explain it, but not as well as the Google guys do it in their site (with excellent html documentation plus some nice videos): http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions
This news blog is the 8th most visited website in Greece! And now you must be wondering why i found it surprising:
It´s a blog (not even a blog about an actor or a famous person in general).
Incredibly simple (the css could be considered too simple, too obvious, etc). But it surely works!
It doesn´t seem to be supported by any important company or news agency (perhaps i´m wrong! could anybody confirm that?)
So, finally, it was great to discover that most of the web users in Greece don´t really care about the way the content is shown, but they respect the simplicity and the first-class content.
I haven´t ever used Blogger, but taking into account that is one of the most visited and used web sites in the world, it deserves a Chrome Plugin ;)
Here is what Google says about this new plugin for Chrome:
“Once you add the BlogThis! button to your browser toolbar, blogging will be a snap (or rather, a click). Click the button to open Blogger in a new application window. The new post is pre-populated with a link to the web page you’re on, as well as any text you’ve highlighted on that page. Edit the post to your liking and post it instantly to your blog!“
Today i have just updated my Wordpress to the latest 2.9 version. For sure, no problems raised and i´m already taking advantage of the new cool features… Check it out here:
Take a look at this, there are a lot of new specifications coming in.
The web is moving to the Cloud… the browsers won´t need javascript and AJAX Frameworks so badly, and server side languages will be our new desktop languages, since these are the trends the whole software world is following.
I can imagine that in 5 years we´ll be trying to remember what that is in Jquery: $(“#id_element”).hide(), we will have fully javascript native CSS elements properties handling, plus hundreds of navite HTML and CSS new behaviours (I think javascript will go for the logic, perhaps not even that, and nothing more).
So it´s time to learn new things and to be more open-minded than ever! Great times for the web!
Take a look at this video! It´s the Chromium OS Open Source Project!
I would use this OS, it looks very simple (come on, we´re used to it, it´s like a browser), fast -> lightning fast… i would really love to check this OS now…. Good work guys!
This week Google has released some cool new tools, some of them not really useful at a first sight, but deserving to be remarked:
Improvement to Google Maps India. Have you ever imagined your Google maps talking to you as a local guy wherever you are looking for an specific place to go! This is more or less the functionality Google has added to their Google Maps India (for example: take the second street on the right after the Manolo´s Shop… imagine! Hehe, really nice if they can get this stuff working right.)
Browser Size (Google Labs): visually nice, and perhaps even useful (if you don´t make your website content to be window-centered with position:relative; left:50%; margin-left: -Npx). Anyway the article says some interesting things about the content position in website design (“For example, on the download page for Google Earth, the install rate increased by 10% when we moved the “Download” button 100 pixels upward”).
Fast Flip: a kind of news carousel, that is supposed to help you reading faster the latest news published on it. Personally, it doesn´t convince me a lot, but let´s give it a chance since is still on Labs, what it means it will be improved a lot before being launched as a new Google App.
Finally, that´s all from the Google World this week. Enjoy!
Here we have it, next February 15th, in Paris, we can enjoy learning from the Symfony masters! This year the Symfony live event is sponsored by Microsoft, ServerGrove and others.
The speakers will give us the chance to know much more about:
“What’s new in symfony 1.3/1.4“ by Kris Wallsmith, release manager of symfony 1.3 and 1.4
“Doctrine 1.2“ by Jonathan Wage, lead developer of Doctrine
“Using symfony and Zend Framework together“ by Stefan Koopmanschap, symfony community manager
“Hosting Practices with symfony“ by Grégoire Hubert, release manager of symfony 1.0
“Symfony and Web Services“ by Dustin Whittle, symfony expert and Yahoo! consultant
This is an interesting blog that organizes meetings in Athens from time to time where people who work on the web have the chance to share their experience and look for new projects… (At least this is how it looked to me! Since the whole website is in Greek and i´m not an expert yet ;) ).
