Do you need to store some information on the client and you don’t fancy to dive into all those storage solutions of modern to old browsers? Need something to wrap all that and provide a simple API to get, set and remove keys and values?

Look no further.

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html5 · Javascript · storage

Last Tuesday I stumbled upon a interesting post by Paolo “Nusco” Perrotta from Italy entitled Is Windows 8 solving the wrong problem? He’s got some points there and his post really got me thinking if the same logic can be applied to other developments as well.

For instance to HTML5 as a cross device strategy?

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Android · architecture · cross-device · html5 · iOS · web apps

Not long ago I thought Adobes Flash would probably die. Microsoft took a small piece of the cake with Silverlight while Apple banned Flash from the iPad altogether. Even Adobe themselves jumped the HTML5 train with Adobe Edge. Flash became uncool and nothing it seemed could be done with it that couldn’t be done with HTML5.

Now I guess I have to change my mind.

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Flash · Games · html5 · iPad · Social Gaming

A few months ago we launched this app already but it got wiped again. Now after some refactoring and redesigning on our side and after some changes on the Facebook side (event creation no longer spawns a status update!) the app is live again still powered by Symfony2.

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Assetic · CoffeeScript · compass · Dropbox · Facebook · html5 · html5boilerplate · JQuery · SASS · Symfony2 · Tv-Programm · Twig

Every wanted to try out some small CSS stuff? Some HTML5? Some javascript even? Did you end up writing a small test.html somewhere on your computer and fired it up in a browser and then started switching between your editor and the browser back and forth?

Well it can be easier than that!

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CSS · html5 · Javascript · jsfiddle

Last Friday the folks from Twitter  announced the release of their new front-end toolkit. It sounds like it’s yet another framework just like boilerplate, blueprintcss, 960 and all the others.

Now how does it differentiate?

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Bootstrap · CSS · grid · HTML · html5 · html5boilerplate · LESS · Twitter

Yesterday the new and shiny second version of HTML5 Boilerplate (H5BP) became available. Although this got nothing to do with the PHP world at all it makes the perfect companion for Symfony 2.0.

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frontend · H5BP · html5 · html5boilerplate

For quite a while now I’ve been working amongst non-developers who mainly care about the financial side of things and business strategies. You should think that they would not be interested in technical matters.

However they asked a colleague and myself to tell them about HTML5 as they felt it could matter to them.

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Business · html5

It took quite a while from the initial idea to the actual implementation. Most of which was spent learning Facebook and Symfony2. But it was well woth the hassle in many respects.

See Facebook TV Programm in action here!

Or read on.

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Facebook · html5 · Symfony2 · Tv-Programm