Archive for the ‘Platforms’ Category

Yahoo Juku - get ready for some serious web development training.

Friday, May 16th, 2008

from YUIblog: Yahoo! is starting a new version of their training program, Yahoo! Juku, where they'll be training some of - as the blog puts it - tomorrow's front-end rock stars. While you may not be able to register, be not dismayed - the training videos will be uploaded ...

Air For Javascript Developers

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

This is a new book on AIR programming for Javascript Developers. Adobe AIR is a cross-platform desktop runtime created by Adobe that allows web developers to use web technologies to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and web applications to the desktop. The Book is released under Creative Commons. You can ...

Still…Surf Africa.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Biyi pointed me to this article while he was researching materials for a paper he was writing. It’s a descriptive narrative given by a foreign journalist on the state of ICT in Nigeria/Africa and how due to improper management, infrastructure is being left to languish. Its 4 years since the article ...

The WEB Isn’t The DESKTOP…

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

I got wind of youOS sometimes last year and here I am asking what's up with it. I remember I was quite excited when I first fiddled with it, the whole philosophy sounded cool but my excitement was a little too quick in dampening out; which was due to obvious reasons. For ...

Android - An Introduction

Friday, December 7th, 2007

Before the Android was unveiled, there was a rumor that Google was going to release a Gphone. I equally believed it and thought it was going to be the death of a number of phone manufacturers. I knew little that what Google had in mind was a destruction - total ...

No, on the NET, its all about information, not ads

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

The traditional media mediums: TV and Radio are intrinsically a push medium. Meaning that contents are just served (pushed) onto the audience. And as such the mentality of the audience is fashioned to be just a recipient, sit back and watch all that is being offered. The user goes with ...