Google has released the source code for its Chrome OS project, as it prepares to show off the lightweight operating system for the first time.

Here you´ll find the article: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/releasing-chromium-os-open-source.html

If you want to run a script on a linux host from your powershell you might want to open an ssh session. Powershell does not bring this feature natively … but you can build yourself a quick workaround by combining powershell with the free tool “PuTTy” and it’s commandline interface “plink”  … read more Powershell SSH Howto

Did you also ask yourself what this google wave is all about? Here is a nice introduction … watch it! It’s googles attempt to reinvent email communication combined with all collaborative communication inventions from the last years (like blogs, twitter, bulletin boards etc.) …

On http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper google is talking about a plan to improve the HTTP protocol with SPDY (speedy). It should drastically reduce latency, remove redundant and irrelevant data transmission (like sending the same headers with every request), base on SSL and compression for every request and make web requests much faster and more efficient …

I think this is very interesting especially for the mobile world since web connections on my mobile still feel like back in the “modem” days which is mainly caused by latency times for all those small requests that happen in the HTTP protocol …

If you are using a mediawiki for internal documentation or as a team knowledge base you might want to automate page creation from a shell. I wrote a powershell script which offers a simple function to create a new wiki page with a title, text and a category as parameters. It works with HTTP – so it should work from most of your servers without firewall problems.

Mediwiki offers a Special page where you can import pages. But this is not a webservice API or something like that – it’s an html form with an xml file upload. So you have to create a mediawiki-compliant xml file and fake an html form submission with the correct parameters (thats why I have this strange parameters in $wikiURL – without them it won’t work). Read more … Powershell Tutorial

I found an interesting blog post from Robert Green. He developed the game “light racer” for android which had 250k downloads after a development time of 3 weeks (this is what he says on his website). In his blog he explains how he is refactoring this game for a 3D version on android … worth reading:

http://www.rbgrn.net/content/54-getting-started-android-game-development

The game Light Racer 3D v1.2 for Android he is describing in his “online book” is looking like this:

This first revision of the Beta of Firefox 3.6 / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features:

• Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
• Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
• Support for the WOFF font format.
• Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
• Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

Read more on: https://developer.mozilla.org