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Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps

You can download from Microsoft Press a full preview edition of the ebook “Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript”. It’s free. This first preview contains the first four chapters of what we think will be an 18-chapter final ebook:

• Chapter 1   The Life Story of a Metro Style App: Platform Characteristics of Windows 8
• Chapter 2   Quickstart
• Chapter 3   App Anatomy and Page Navigation
• Chapter 4   Controls, Control Styling, and Basic Data Binding

Happy reading!

New Microsoft Office Web Apps Preview

Following this post here, about experiencing modern Office with SkyDrive, namely the improved features driven by the new Office 365 Home Premium, it’s public that you can opt-in by following this: Sign in using this special link and create a new document.
After entering your SkyDrive, you get the following notification:
Create a new document and check out the improvements as well as the new features on these aspects:

• improved authoring
• Touch support
• Document collaboration

Have fun.

pdf.js

Now this look very promising. Check ou the demo here!

The problem with the Web isn't old browsers, it's old ways of thinking

I posted my point of view about this smashing magazine article and also mentioned that I face this kind of article as IE trolling. Thankfully, a more open minded person shares my frustration and elaborates very well on it on this post, also from smashing magazine.
The most meaningful sentence to me was that Internet Explorer 9 is a damn good browser. The only reason it doesn’t have all of the features as Chrome and Firefox is because they rebuilt the thing from scratch so that adding more features in the future would be easier.
The author also notes that the constant drumming of “Internet Explorer X is the new Internet Explorer 6″ is getting very old. Microsoft has done a lot to try to correct their past transgressions, and it seems like there are still too many people who aren’t willing to let go of old grudges.
Anyway, no one is forced to live with Internet Explorer. If you don't like it, use the browser you feel good about.

I like Internet Explorer!

I'm a fan of smashing magazine but I was a bit let down after reading this post Dear Web User: Please Upgrade Your Browser.
It's pretty well written but It's nothing more than a designer rant and some trolling on IE.
It's true that IE falls way behind the competition on the browser extensions and integrated cloud service and it's a given fact that a lot of Windows users don't update their browser to the latest available version.
But IE9 is still a pretty good browser and the missing plug-in market is a positive thing when it comes to browser safety and stability.
Besides Internet Explorer at the work desktop, I also use Firefox and Chrome for personal stuff. Who of you have never seen this page on Chrome:
Browser stability, compatibility and safety always rely mostly on the web developer's skills. It's not just about the browser.