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:

• http://www.niobiumlabs.com/
• http://www.athensbook.gr/
• http://cosmical.gr/
• http://patterninsight.com/ (USA)
• http://spitogatos.gr/main/index.php
• http://theopenfund.com/

I hope to get in touch with some of these guys soon, since they´re doing a very good job…

Daniel

EWS is a pure AJAX application whose role is to be the web interface of a complex SAP HR System.

Daniel

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

troktiko.blogspot.com

This news blog is the 8th most visited website in Greece! And now you must be wondering why  i found it surprising:

1. It´s a blog (not even a blog about an actor or a famous person in general).
2. Incredibly simple (the css could be considered too simple, too obvious, etc). But it surely works!
3. 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.

Daniel

Here is what Google says about this new plugin for Chrome:

Visit the plugin site here!

Nice!

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!

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!

Daniel

Google Goodies!

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!

Daniel

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 the official website: Symfony live 2010!

If anyone of you go there and would like to share the experience don´t hesitate to contact me!

Daniel

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