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+ - Interesting HTML5 demo with nodejs, iPhone accelerometer-> 0

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whoisthis

on Friday March 23, 2012 @07:28AM

whoisthis writes "The demo lets users use their iPhone as a controller for a game on a desktop/laptop browser. An app does not have to be installed on the iOS device to get this to work. The accelerometer values from mobile safari are pushed to the desktop browser using socketio & nodejs."
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+ - Robotic umbrella forest to keep Hajj pilgrims cool-> 0

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An dochasac

on Friday March 23, 2012 @06:46AM

An dochasac writes "The annual Hajj pilgrimage is expected to bring over three million Muslims to Al-Masjid al-Nabaw mosque in Medina this year. The dry Saudi Arabian climate with temperatures exceeding 100F makes this a punishing and potentially dangerous event for pilgrims gathered in the shadeless marble plaza. German designers, SL-Rasch, in collaboration with Sefar Architecture, conceived a landscape of high-tech sunscreens that span the 150,000 square meter forecourts, a total area larger than the mosque’s footprint. The 250 convertible umbrellas, each 20 meters tall, are sized to fill the courts’ proportions, converting the open plazas into fully covered outdoor rooms.

These umbrellas open and close on demand to provide shade during daylight, trap heat at night and collect precious rainwater. They are also beautiful, fitting in well with the traditional architecture of Mohammad's second mosque."
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Moblin V2.0 Beta For Netbooks and Nettops 50

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @02:31PM
from the get-your-mobility-on dept.

superbubba writes "The Moblin steering committee is happy to release the Moblin v2.0 beta for netbooks and nettops for developer testing. With this release, developers can begin to experience and work with the source code of the visually rich, interactive user interface designed for Intel Atom based netbooks."

Comment: new features in php 5.3 (Score 2, Informative) 120

by whoisthis on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @11:40AM (#28529171) Attached to: PHP 5.3 Released

see whats new in PHP 5.3. Namespaces, phar, Closures & Lambdas, Functors, Traits,Magic functions. See link above for examples.

PHP 5.3 Released 120

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 30, 2009 @10:43AM
from the phffp-phffp-phffp dept.

Sudheer writes "The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more."

Comment: PHP now on the GAE (Score 1) 168

by whoisthis on Thursday April 16, 2009 @07:31AM (#27595711) Attached to: Google App Engine Adds Java Support, Groovy Meta-Programming

Run PHP on your google app engine. See details http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2009/run-php-on-the-google-app-engine/

Comment: Quercus is also fast (Score 1) 1

by whoisthis on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @03:39AM (#27583221) Attached to: Run PHP on the Google App Engine

Java-compiled PHP performance seems to faster than standard PHP (at least PHP without any accelerators). So this is also fast.

+ - Run PHP on the Google App Engine-> 1

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php-developer

on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @11:40AM

php-developer writes "Google App Engine, a cloud computing environment that Google has been working on to host Web applications in a way that, in theory, it provides automatic scalability, so sites can handle large audiences without having to plan and invest on servers to handle large loads. We have now figured out how to run PHP on Google App Engine. You may be wondering how this is possible as Google doesn't support PHP on App Engine. Well its possible because recently Google announced Java as the newest programming language supported by the App Engine. And this made possible to run Quercus which is a 100% Java implementation of the PHP language. So until PHP support is officially added by Google you can play with this approach."
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