Author Archives: greenido

Chrome, HTML5, JavaScript

Chrome Extensions Updated Features

In this Google Developer Live episode I covered some of the new elements you wish to pay attention when you are starting to develop your Google Chrome Extension. If you don’t know what is an extension and why it’s great way to improve Chrome, try this true 101 tutorial first. As you (might) know, there is a new version for the manifest file that include few improvements. The first basic change is to add this simple declaration:

manifest_version: 2

This is a mandatory and if you have a current extension in the Chrome web store I suggest you update it to include it. The second bold change in the manifest file is the ability to make it more secure. For this we have to define what is our extension’s Contact Security Policy. In the demo case that I’ve showed, it will look like that: Continue reading →

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Chrome, HTML5, JavaScript

My Talk At HTML5Fest Israel (In Hebrew)

https://i0.wp.com/www.w3c.org.il/HTML5fest/2012/images/html5-badge-h-solo.pngTwo week ago, I have the pleasure to take part in HTML5Fest Israel and give the keynote. It was a great event that the Israeli office of the W3C organize. If you wish to read some of the main points check out this blog post. It was a short talk because I thought I had 30min but in the end of the day… It was shorter.

http://www.w3c.org.il/HTML5fest/2012/lecturers.php?course_id=0&session_id=0&lecturer_id=5Nevertheless, I had great time having interesting conversations with lead developers in the crowds for the rest of the day. I can’t wait for next year event…

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Business, life

The Brain, Entrepreneurship And Life With Jeff Hawkins

I’ve watch this interesting conversation between Jeff Hawkins and Michael Chui. For the ones that are old enough to remember Palm (yep, Palm V!) and Handspring – Jeff was the founder of both but he has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time at Numentanumenta. In this hour conversation there are lots of interesting points on the brain, his life and some great tips for entrepreneurs. Few points that I wrote down from his thoughts: Continue reading →

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Chrome, HTML5, JavaScript, webdev

A Hangout On HTML5 APIs And CSS3 (New) Layouts

TALLINN Map

Last night, I gave this talk to Google Developer Group Tallinn about the new APIs that we have today in HTML5 and CSS3. It was (another) great hangout where you can ‘touch’ people that are quite far from your location and speak with them about mutual interest.

Some of the topics that I covered during the talk where: Continue reading →

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Chrome

HTML5 New APIs And Modern Web Apps

Here is a talk I gave over hangout to developers that came to Esto es Google 2012 in Mexico. It cover the same topics from this talk that I gave in hebrew but this time it’s in english…

As in most of the cases, you can find all the slides over at: ido-green.appspot.com

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Chrome

GDL-IL On ChromeOS And Chromebook

Today I sat with Nissim Benito (our very own Chrome/Hardware expert) to talk about the new features we have in ChromeOS. We covered the hardware specs that you have on Chromebox and Chromebook. These devices give you a lot of option to connect 6 USBs, 2 DVI etc’. We showed how you can use modern web apps that are out there today to be more productive and safe. In case you want to test ChromeOS before you buy it, you can go to best buy or Install ChromiumOS On Your (Old) Laptop another option is to test ChromeOS In VirtualBox. I’m sorry for the quality of the audio… I hope to solve it until the next episode.

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Chrome, HTML5, JavaScript, webdev

HTML5 New APIs In ILTechTalks (Hebrew)

Last week, I’ve went to live person HQ to give a talk in ILTechTalks on HTML5 and how you can use some of its new APIs in order to build you next web app. Today, web apps like: gmail, maps, google docs etc’ are consider to be modern web apps. They are rich, interactive applications that users spend long hours with them. There are few features that distinguish modern (or great) web apps from sites: Continue reading →

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Chrome, HTML5, JavaScript, webdev

GDL-IL on Chrome Extensions And Backbone.js In The Real World

Today I’ve spoke on GDL-IL (=Google Developer Live Israel) with Ron Reiter on his work at Any.Do and how he leverage backbone.js to create this useful chrome extension. The main points we covered during our talk:

  • Chrome Extensions– How you start developing them and why you will want to do it.
    • Extensions are small software programs that can modify and enhance Chrome. The best part is that you write them using web technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. Here is the code for the example extension I’ve wrote as ‘short cuts’ to Chrome internal pages.
  • Ron gave us a short description on backbone.js and what are the main components in this MV* framework. You can learn more at: http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/
  • We talked about Any.do extension and Ron gave a nice overview of the code he used for the sync layer.
  • Few tips for extensions developers:
    • How to inspect an extension: open the popup and right click inside of it. It will give you the option to open chrome devtools (with the ‘inspect element menu item). In cases, where you don’t have a popup – you can always use chrome://extensions and click on ‘inspect background page’.
    • If you have some logic you wish to test without the extension (or not inside it) you can always run QUnit (or any other unit test framework) on a page that will be a proxy to your popup’s index.html file.

Enjoy and feel free to join us every week on WED 14:00 Israel time at https://developers.google.com/live/


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Chrome

Chrome For Enterprise

During my work with big organizations I got many questions about deploying Chrome for enterprise. What are the management capabilities? Which policy I can control? Is there an option to use MSI? The good news is that most of the answers are… Yes! Chrome/Chromuim supports few ways to control your browser’s activity. It can be done by using group policy, MCX files and external configuration files. In the end of the day, the administrator of your organization can manage and control all the Chrome installations. One of the main question CIO/CTO has is about the option to control the auto-updates. Well, You can control it. For more details you can read the first bullet in the list below. The other items in that list will help you understand more on the capabilities and see how you can deploy it on any network (windows, linux and mac).
 

(*) More information on all the benefits of Chrome for enterprise and businesses can be found here. And as we know, in the business world the EULA is important as well.

Chrome Frame

Another great option for enterprises that need to work with IE is to install Chrome-Frame. Chrome Frame is an Internet Explorer plug-in that renders specific web pages in Chrome. That’s right… You will be able to use the latest HTML5 features (e.g. see amazing 3D WebGL charts) inside your IE6-8. It’s very powerful way to empower your people with modern browser today.

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Chrome, webdev

Special GDL-IL On Startups #tips

GDL-IL on startupsIt is a busy week (and we are only on TUE). First, we had the opportunity  to host four founders from around the world (Sweden, Moscow and Israel) on GDL-IL. It was in a special episode about: Sartups, VCs, Angles and how to improve your pitch. I had the pleasure to host Eze Vidra, Head of Google Campus London who gave important feedback after each pitch. The structure of the show was like that: each founder got 3 minutes to pitch his startup and then we gave them feedback and asked more questions in order to understand the strengths better. I liked the fact that each founder choose a different way to pass his message. It was very interesting to hear the progress and learn about the key accomplishments that each of them made. I will write a more detailed summary of this conversation but for now you can enjoy it over here:

Second, last night, fresh from the oven a new podcast in hebrew on HTML5 and CSS3 New & Cool Stuff saw life. I had the honor to be a guest (again) on reversim.com and talk about new web technologies that I’m passion about. If you are a developer that wish to hear quality content in hebrew on subjects that relate to your profesional life. Give it a try,  today they have more then 150 episodes that cover A LOT of topics. You can download the mp3 file from here.

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