Because of HTML5’s momentum, it is now a technology that every XML developer has to deal with. Fortunately HTML5 supports a proper XML serialization. Learn about the XML form of HTML5 including some key differences from older XHTML conventions and learn how to practically apply this vocabulary in modern web browsers.
U.K. Officials Suggest To Use Linux
U.K. Officials Suggest to dump all the Microsoft software and start using Linux and Open Office. The Linux and GNU software offer a free or a very low cost alternatives to Microsoft software, so why to expend on a system which is expensive if you can have it free or at low cost. In words of Prime Minister David Cameron:
In terms of spending less, what about migrating the whole of government (the NHS, education etc.) from Microsoft products to Linux and open-source software like Openoffice.
Source: Business Week News
App Inventor for Android
Google launch the App Inventor, a framework to develop apps for Android. You can create any app is in your mind.
You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend’s faces. You can even make use of the phone’s sensors to move a ball through a maze based on tilting the phone.
But app building is not limited to simple games. You can also build apps that inform and educate. You can create a quiz app to help you and your classmates study for a test. With Android’s text-to-speech capabilities, you can even have the phone ask the questions aloud.
The App Inventor interface is very simple but powerful. The Google developers make “almost everything” to help you with the development (touch controls, buttons, etc).
If you like it, or you always dream to make your own android app, so you can. Just fill this form and you are on your way to start making Android Apps with the Google App Inventor.
Source: Google Labs
Spotify for Linux
Spotify is an on-line music player with thousands of songs, music, etc. This program was available for Windows and Mac (and you can run it with wine) but now you can use it on your Linux system.
A lot of our developers are using Linux, obviously they want to listen to music while they’re coding away and looking at the feedback we get it appears that they’re not the only ones. So today we’re pretty happy to present a preview version of Spotify for Linux.
Built by our brilliant developers during hack days and late nights, it shares most of the same features as our Windows and Mac OS X desktop applications. Unfortunately, there are issues regarding decoding of local music on the Linux platform so we haven’t included support for local files in this version.
Source: Spotify Blog