A number of companies are making a push to move traditional desktop applications into the cloud. Programmers have not been left out of this revolution, with several sites offering IDEs in a web browser. Here are 5 online IDEs.
Facebook recently released its new Create Application API, a slim convenience API that makes it easy for developers to generate a Facebook API key for widgets. The API complements existing Facebook developer tools, including Facebook Connect, an increasingly popular way of allowing for delegated Facebook authentication on third party web sites.
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You may already have access to your user’s location and not know it yet. If you use Google’s Ajax API loader to access Maps, Search or Feeds, you’re one line of JavaScript away from knowing the user’s country, city, or even a nearby latitude/longitude point.
Google has just announced that a new version of its Google Maps API (our Google Maps API Profile) is available as a beta release. The new version of the popular API has been developed from the ground up as a modularized set of JavaScript libraries focused on improving load speed and performance. At the Google IO Conference, the Google Maps API team indicated that the new API offers several advantages over the previous API, which originally was not designed to be as extensible or feature rich as it has become.
If you’ve ever wanted to programmatically translate text from one language to another directly from code, there’s a new web service from Microsoft Research you might want to try. It’s the recently announced new Microsoft Translator AJAX API and web widget. The API provides automated translation of web pages and portions of web pages into 12 different languages including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, and Russian. The Microsoft Research team plans to add more languages over time.
Google has announced the release of a new AJAX API Playground that is sure to make life much easier for developers working with Google’s JavaScript APIs. The Playground is full of various types of JavaScript samples, including samples for the following APIs:
Developers looking to add database functionality to their mashups will be interested in a new JavaScript API for real relational database programming from NextDB.net. The NextDB.net hosted database seeks to eliminate the overhead associated with server-side coding, database management and additional hardware installation (see our NextDB.net API Profile).
Wikia Search has announced a new feature called Wikia Intelligent Search Extensions, or WISE, which founder Jimmy Wales likens to “Facebook Apps for search results.” The new platform allows third parties to build applications, called WISEApps, that Wikia Search users can enable in their accounts and which add additional functionality to relevant search results (more at our Wikia API profile). For example, the results for an ordinary search for “Chicago weather” will include a link to AccuWeather.com, but if the user enables the AccuWeather.com WISEApp, the search result will include a full graphical five-day weather forecast.
The Google Data APIs Team has announced that its JavaScript Client Library now supports both its new Chrome browser as well as Apple’s Safari (both browsers are built on the WebKit open source browser).
WeatherBug announced the winners of its recent WeatherBug API Excellence Contest. As we reported last month, prizes were offered for applications developed on different WeatherBug API platforms (PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, etc.).
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