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Google Wave First Impressions

Google Wave, a new API/protocol and platform was presented on Google I It’s a hosted, embeddable communications and collaboration platform that introduces quite a few interesting features that are currently either not available or require multiple service vendors It was written in Java Google has made it clear that the protocol is going to be […]

iPhoneOS 3.0

Ανακοινώθηκε αργά μέσ’την ημέρα (ώρα Ελλάδος) προχθές, γρήγορα έφτασε στα χέρια χιλιάδων εγγεγραμμένων προγραμματιστών για iPhone. Το νεο λειτουργικό προσφέρει πολλά, τόσο σε χρήστες όσο και στους ανθρώπους που σχεδιάζουν και αναπτύσσουν εφαρμογές για τη συσκευή. Για τη χώρα μας ιδιαίτερου ενδιαφέροντος φυσικά αποτελεί το ελληνικό πληκτρολόγιο, το οποίο περιλαμβάνει την ίδια τεχνολογία αυτόματης διόρθωσης […]

'Sparse' in all ways.

Yep, the iPhone SDK does not support dynamically linked libraries. And that’s truly fantastic news for all iPhone developers wishing to leverage existing code out there. You can, of course, use a statically linked library in your code, or — if you have the code for the third-party libraries you’re going to be using — […]

It's been really exhausting porting stuff to OS X

Justin Frankel lists a few reasons why Apple's developer resources suck. While OS X has some of the most modern, most powerful APIs around, much of their functionality is undocumented, forcing developers to spend countless hours reading header files or even reverse engineering while getting to know how to use them.

Google Earth Browser Plugin

Sure, AJAX, when viewed through the prism of the still world of HTML and CSS, can be beautifully dynamic. But, let's face it, Google Earth --- despite its resource-laden design and slow response on slower systems --- is a much more natural, a friendlier way to view geographic data. With Microsoft trying hard to reclaim the (tech) lead on mapping (see Virtual Earth, WorldWide Telescope), it's up to Google to stop the surge. Enter the Google Earth API and browser plugin --- software that opens up Google Earth for use within browsers and accessible by web developers. Sadly, it's only available for Windows right now --- I bet this will change soon.