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How Google Won the Html5 Video Standards War
Posted on May 19th, 2010 No commentsToday google open sourced the vp8 video codec which they acquired when they purchased On2 Technologies which has triggered the largest splash i’ve seen in the internet world in a long time. Everyone knew they were going to do it and there was a buzz of speculation surrounding the rumors of what it would do for current standards war occuring in the web browser market. I, myself, stated some time ago that it could be game changer since it would provide the much needed ‘third party’ standard that was needed to prevent another standards fragmentation for web content.
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Google lays down the gauntlet with ChromeOS
Posted on November 20th, 2009 No commentsWe all knew it was coming. There were rumors and flat out denials from Google so of course it had to be true. It was the logical path for them and anyone who paid attention to the types of software they’ve been releasing could clearly see the writing on the wall. Every time Google made an announcement or released something new, the was the immediate response… why? Every app, framework, website, tool, they have ever released is a piece of a puzzle that when assembled shows you Google’s over-arching strategy. You just have to step back a little bit to see
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A month with Google Chrome
Posted on September 1st, 2009 No commentsSome of you may remember my inflammatory article about the demise of firefox, and I thought it would be wise to post a follow up as I am a man of my word and when the situation on the ground changes, I like to re-evaluate my opinions. As stated in the previous article, once chromium [...]
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Implement a Rest API with the Zend Framework
Posted on May 6th, 2009 22 commentsEdit: Recent developments in the 1.9 version of the Zend Framework has caused much of this information to become obsolete. Please consider Zend_Rest_Server deprecated and use Zend_Rest_Controller instead. I will write an updated article once I have experimented with it. Thanks to the other developers who brought this to my attention. As a developer and [...]
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End of Life for Internet Explorer 6. Please.
Posted on April 13th, 2009 3 commentsSo Microsoft has decided to begin the push of IE8 to all the unsuspecting windows users through their automatic update service and once again has done us a marginal favor out of their own necessity for relevance. With IE6 now two generations antiquated, many of the developers in the community are finding fewer reasons to [...]
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The Demise of Firefox
Posted on March 20th, 2009 4 commentsI stumbled across this article today which in words manifested a gut feeling all of us web developers have been feeling for the last year. The sensational title: ‘Firefox may already be dead’, rings true if the systematic revolt against Internet Explorer is any lesson. To understand why Firefox may be on the death march, [...]
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