Chrome, HTML5

Google Developers Days (Tel Aviv & Berlin) And One CloudCon

It was a busy week. Busy but with lots of fun. It’s so great to meet wonderful developers that push the web forward and know (and love) their profession. Last sunday, we had Google Developers Day in Tel Aviv (or Airport city if you want to be accurate) – it was well organized event with more then 1400 developers. In the keynote we had three demos:

Android – Ice cream sandwich new capabilities (maps, nfc, HD and other features. To dive deeper, go check Romain Guy’s blog).
Chrome/HTML5 amazing new features – I did the demos and I hope to post a list next week.
G+ – the new hangout APIs with a robot that eat falafel and drink beers.

Here you can check some coverage:

Channel 2 news 2 minute piece
Wall Street Journal- http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/11/14/google-to-launch-start-up-incubator-in-israel/?mod=google_news_blog
TheMarker – http://it.themarker.com/tmit/article/17524
Globes – http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1000697245
Calcalist – http://www.calcalist.co.il/internet/articles/0,7340,L-3551596,00.html
Haaretz – http://www.haaretz.co.il/captain/net/1.1565004
Newsgeek – http://www.newsgeek.co.il/google-israel-incubator-program/

The CloudCon was also impressive in terms of the audience (mainly, CIO/CTO dudes) – they liked the story of HTML5 and ChromeOS. I got some good questions on new features: offline, notifications, threads and even on web audio. It could be great to have the new Chromebooks in Israel, it seems that the market really want them. The one argument (or selling point if you want to push here) that conviense IT people is that the TCO (=Total cost of ownership) is 60%-70% cheaper. Yes – these are the numbers… so if your organization can work with web apps (and Citrix for the apps that you don’t want to move to the web) it might be a perfect solution for you.

I hope to get some photos soon (from our dear wonderful photographer) – so I’ll update this post with fresh photos of some great looking people.

Tomorrow we are going to rock Berlin – so keep up with us using G+ with #GDD11 tag or this blog next week. Btw, for Berlin GDD you might want to search after #GDDDE

Be strong.

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In case you want to follow the slides from my Talk in CloudCon – The ‘love’ story of HTML5 & ChromeOS.

From Google Developers Day in Berlin here are the talks:

Chrome

ChromeOS In VirtualBox – Test Drive It

In a lot of cases you wish to develop to the new Chromebook but don’t have the hardware or just want to be more productive while working on your 8-core linux box… In these cases, there is a good option to run the latest ChromeOS inside Virtualbox (or VMware if you have it). A quick reminder, Chromium OS (which is the open source version of ChromeOS) is a project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web. In our tutorial here we will use Chromium OS images.

The steps to follow

Download VirtualBox.
You can build your own OS if you wish, just go to: chromium-os and read the details.
However, there is an easy way – just download an image of Chromium OS – I have one for you here or just type http://bit.ly/crOS-16.
And this guy is creating lots of fresh images of Chromium OS every day. So if you want the real ‘development’ (=alpha) version of it – check it out.
Open the VirtualBox and click on ‘New’ button (upper left corner) – You will get this:

Choose Linux and Ubuntu and click ‘Continue’.

Next you need to set the memory – make sure to set an amount that you can devote to VirtualBox without killing your machine. Something around 1500MB should work. If you have more, even better.

The last part of this wizard is to choose the image file. Click on the radiobox and point to the place you save the image file of ChromeOS.

Next dialog will show you a summary of all the details and after you will click ‘Create’ you are good to go!

Tips

Make sure to open ‘Setting’ of your new virtual machine and under ‘Processor’ click the PAE checkbox. If you won’t do that, you will get the ‘black screen of death’ and the machine won’t start.
If you getting errors while loading – sometimes it’s due to lack of memory. Try to close some applications and start the virtual box again.
Make sure you have something like 100mb of memory to the ‘video memory’ under the display section in the settings.