Well-funded Meteor poised to impact web development
The developers behind the Meteor open source project say they want to revolutionize how applications are built, and they've just been handed a whopping $11.2m in Series A funding to do it.
Meteor is an open source platform for building web applications with rich user interfaces that run on the client rather than the server – applications like Gmail, Twitter, Quora, or the Facebook photo viewer, for example. This is a style of software that Meteor's Matt DeBergalis says is becoming the new norm.
"Today's users expect and demand that quality of an app," DeBergalis tells The Reg, "but for the typical developer it's out of reach."
Meteor, he says, allows even "weekend coders" to build complete, functioning browser-based applications in a matter of days. Read more...
China blocks ‘Egypt’ on Twitter-like site
CHINA has blocked the word "Egypt'' from the country's wildly popular Twitter-like service, while coverage of the political turmoil has been tightly restricted in state media.
China's ruling Communist Party is sensitive to any potential source of social unrest.
A search for "Egypt'' on the Sina microblogging service brings up a message saying, "According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, the search results are not shown.'' Read more...
9 Steps to Build a Simple Web Application
Teach yourself how to write a simple Web Application using WebMatrix, CSS, HTML, HTML5, ASP.NET, SQL, Databases and more in just a couple of hours.
In this series of articles, you will learn how to build a simple web application that is used to manage a list of your favorite movies. While it is simple, it will demonstrate many of the capabilities of a full web application, including using a database to drive the content, and provide functionality to allow your users to add to the database, and edit and delete data. (You may have heard the term CRUD – Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete, now you’ll learn how to do it in WebMatrix!)
You’ll also learn how to deploy your application using WebDeploy and hosting providers within WebMatrix! Read more...
Microsoft Releases WebMatrix, Delivering on Its Web Platform Vision
Microsoft Corp. announced the availability of WebMatrix, a free Web development tool designed to help website developers of all skill levels easily create, customize and publish websites to the Internet. Microsoft has also made available a set of video tutorials, how-to tips and other resources for helping new Web developers get started.
WebMatrix is available in nine languages and includes a set of tools to create new websites, using code provided through a variety of available templates or using existing free open source Web applications, such as WordPress, Joomla!, DotNetNuke and Umbraco. Read more...