Adobe stops development of Flash on Android & PlayBook
As I said a one year ago, the Adobe’s strategy around flash on mobile devices seems totally wrong. Adobe decided to stop the development of Flash for mobile devices. Seems that HTML5 will be definetly the future, great news for the industry!!!
FONTS : theverge.com
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CouchDB, replicate me!
A few months ago since we start that new adventure on Floraqueen developing a complete new system that handles the frontend and the backend of our site and one month ago from the online, I decided to start a new set of posts about that project and all that new technologies that I’ve learned during those months.
My first post it’s about CouchDB replication process, maybe would be better start with some post explaining in detail what’s CouchDB and why we decided to use that wonderful database on that project. But I think that will be better start with some details about CouchDB that seems incredible for me, a tipical SQL jockey.
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Why NoSQL is bad for startups
I reproduce that GREAT (in my opinion) article from http://labs.mudynamics.com
We launched pcapr over a year ago now with just a few of us working part time to build and manage the site. pcapr is powered by CouchDB, a NoSQL database written in Erlang with JavaScript as the primary query language. Frankly, this has been a disaster. We are planning on rebuilding the site with Java, Hibernate and MySQL for a number of reasons.
Programming, especially with databases, used to be challenging. I remember having late night meetings about tables, normalization and migration and how best to represent the data we have for each packet capture. For a startup, these kinds of late night meetings are critical in establishing a bond amongst the engineers who are just learning to work with each other. NoSQL destroys this human aspect in a number of ways.
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SMTP2APNS, push me!
These days I’ve been a little bit disconnected from blog because I assist to an iPhone Bootcamp course on NYC to introduce me on that wonderful world about iPhone/iPad/iPod development.
A few days ago I open a repository on Bitbucket to store my new project (SMTP2APNS), so let me explain that project and maybe could be interesting for you and your projects.
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Geoplaying with distances
In a previous post I introduced the way to get GPS coordenates from any android or iphone platform. Now let’s see how can we play with that information to make some distance calculations. Easy and funny!
Let me define a javascript class to represent a GPS position (I don’t have any preference with javascript language but, previous post examples use javascript too and I prefer to keep the same language in that serie of posts) and a function on that class to make distance calculations. As always I don’t wanna lose time explaining every mathematical details about Vincenty’s formulae used on that example. It works! XD
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Geolocateme with javascript!
New movile phones (like iphone or android ones) comes out with some wonderful GPS features! And thanks to W3C guys and it’s Geolocation API Specification, we can use the position of our web users (always to give them new features and services of course).
Mobile browsers offers us some DOM objects to control and know the position. As you know, I don’t wanna fill that blog with empty words so let’s see an example of that. I think is the best way to learn!
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Flash future on debate
There’s a lot of discussion these days about Flash future. A long time ago Flash was a great way to achieve some web effects impossible to reach without their help. But nowadays where “button effect” use of Flash and webs completly developed in Flash are dropping dramatically (fortunately). Some experts talk about the future of that technology.
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Images for the web (part I)
Nowadays we are used to work with images without think on the weight of the image on our hard disks, that’s because usually there’s no problem loading an image of some megabytes on any of our software of image editing.
But when we talk about web images the things are very different and the expertise that we apply generating those images can modify dramatically the feeling of the user about our site. And we can improve the bandwith of our servers.
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New features in PHP 5.3
These days our dev team has fighted with the adaptation of our code to PHP 5.3. May be frustrating, but let’s see a short ennumeration of the improvements and new exciting features that guys from php have been added to that new version!
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