Create your first Windows Store app using JavaScript

The tutorial series by Microsoft explain how to use JavaScript with HTML5 and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create Windows Store apps.

Hello World of Windows Store app using JavaScript

• Part 1: Create a "Hello, world!" app
  Start here to create your first app, a simple "Hello, world" app that displays a personalized greeting. Learn how to
  - Create a new project
  - Add HTML content to your start page
  - Handle touch, pen, and mouse input
  - Switch between the light and dark style sheets
  - Create your own custom styles
  - Use a Windows Library for JavaScript control
• Part 2: Manage app lifecycle and state
  In Windows 8, you can launch several apps and switch between them without having to worry about slowing down the system or running the battery down. That's because the system automatically suspends (and sometimes terminates) apps that are running in the background for you. A well-designed app can be suspended, terminated, and relaunched by the system and seem as though it were running the entire time.
  In Part 2 of this tutorial series, you update your "Hello, world" app to respond to lifecycle events and save user and session data.
• Part 3: PageControl objects and navigation
  The "Hello, world" app that you created in the previous tutorials contains a single page of content, but most real-world apps will contain several pages. In this tutorial, you copy the code from your "Hello, world" app into a new app that uses the Navigation App template, and then you add an additional page and enable navigation between the app's pages.
• Part 4: Layout and orientation
  In this tutorial, we go over the basics of creating a user interface in HTML and CSS. To learn these basics, you create a simple photo viewer that lets the user pick an image from their Pictures Library, and then it shows the image and some info about the image file. For this tutorial, we start from scratch with a new app.
• Part 5: File access and pickers
  In this tutorial, you add functionality to the app you created in Part 4: Layout and views. First, you handle the "Get photo" button click event to open a file picker and let the user select an image from their Pictures library. Then you bind UI controls to file properties to show the picture info. Finally, we revisit what you learned in Part 2 about how to save app state. Here, you use a MostRecentlyUsedList to keep access to the image selected by the user.
• Doc roadmap
  After you're done with the tutorials, check out the doc roadmap for a list of key resources that can help you learn more about creating Windows Store apps using JavaScript.

Google Maps Javascript API Version 3 is now the official Javascript API

The Google Maps Javascript API Version 3 is now the official Javascript API. Version 2 of this API has been officially deprecated as per our deprecation policy. You are encouraged to migrate your code to this newly updated and enhanced version!

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/

Google Maps with Dart

see how easy and fun it is to use the Google Maps JS API with Dart, using Alexandre Ardhuin's excellent Dart Google Maps library!

Library on GitHub:
https://github.com/a14n/dart-google-maps

Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests

Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests, read online.

Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests

Start Here! Build Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript

Ready to learn Windows 8 programming? Start Here!™

Learn the fundamentals of Windows 8 programming—and begin creating apps for desktops, laptops, tablets, and other devices. If you have previous experience with HTML5 and JavaScript—simply start here! This book introduces must-know concepts and getting-started techniques through easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and exercises.

Here’s where you start learning Windows 8 app development

• Build on your knowledge of HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript
• Create photo and media galleries with built-in HTML widgets
• Interact with the system through live tiles, contracts, and view state detection
• Store and access data on the local device and via the Internet
• Access webcam, GPS, and other sensors embedded in the device
• Create your first programs and publish them to the Windows Store

A conversation with the Go team

Google I/O 2013 - Fireside Chat with the Go Team

Getting Started with HTML5 Applications in NetBeans IDE

This screencast introduces NetBeans IDE support for developing HTML5 applications.

How to Build Multi-Platform Maps with Google'€™s APIs

Google I/O 2013 - How to Build Multi-Platform Maps with Google'€™s APIs
The Google Maps API is now on multiple platforms, JavaScript, Android, and iOS. Each platform has it’s own special strengths and limitations, and requires special attention. But what if you’re building for all three platforms? How do you approach that problem? This session will look at the specialized development for the individual platforms versus generalized development for all three, and the trade offs inherent in each different approach. We will look at when to use our web services, and how to build a strong back-end infrastructure.

A preview on Windows 8.1

First look at Windows 8.1

Jensen Harris from the Windows Team shows some highlights of what to expect in Windows 8.1 coming later this year as a free update for Windows 8 customers. http://bit.ly/10OM2Th

Online tutorial: ASP.NET Web Deployment using Visual Studio

This tutorial series, ASP.NET Web Deployment using Visual Studio, shows you how to deploy (publish) an ASP.NET web application to a Windows Azure Web Site or a third-party hosting provider, by using Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2010.

ASP.NET Web Deployment using Visual Studio

You develop a web application in order to make it available to people over the Internet. But web programming tutorials typically stop right after they've shown you how to get something working on your development computer. This series of tutorials begins where the others leave off: you've built a web site, tested it, and it's ready to go. What's next? These tutorials show you how to deploy first to IIS on your local development computer for testing, and then to Windows Azure or a third-party hosting provider for staging and production. The sample application that you'll deploy is a web application project that uses the Entity Framework, SQL Server, and the ASP.NET membership system. The sample application uses ASP.NET Web Forms, but the procedures shown apply also to ASP.NET MVC and Web API.

These tutorials assume you know how to work with ASP.NET in Visual Studio. If you don’t, a good place to start is a basic ASP.NET Web Forms Tutorial or a basic ASP.NET MVC Tutorial.

Visual Studio 2012 is recommended, but you can complete most of the tutorial steps by using Visual Studio 2010. You'll need to install the latest updates and the Windows Azure SDK, as explained in the Prerequisites section.

link: http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials/deployment/visual-studio-web-deployment/introduction

Camino reaches its end

Camino was a free, open source, GUI-based Web browser based on Mozilla's Gecko layout engine and specifically designed for the OS X operating system. In place of an XUL-based user interface used by most Mozilla-based applications, Camino used Mac-native Cocoa APIs. On May 30, 2013, the Camino Project announced that the browser is no longer being developed.

Camino reaches its end

Camino reaches its end

After a decade-long run, Camino is no longer being developed, and we encourage all users to upgrade to a more modern browser. Camino is increasingly lagging behind the fast pace of changes on the web, and more importantly it is not receiving security updates, making it increasingly unsafe to use.

Fortunately, Mac users have many more browsers to choose from than they did when Camino started ten years ago. Former Camino developers have helped build the three most popular – Chrome, Firefox, and Safari – so while this is the end of Camino itself, the community that helped build it is still making the web better for Mac users.

Thank you to all our loyal users, and to everyone who contributed in countless ways over the years to make Camino what it was.

~ caminobrowser.org