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OpenELEC 1.0 released

Team XBMC would happily like to congratulate Team OpenELEC on their release of v1.0.

OpenELEC, for those who don’t know, is somewhat similar to XBMC Live. The basic concept is that the user interacts with XBMC without once having to visit a non-XBMC screen. The similarities between XBMC Live and OpenELEC end there though. Live is based on a modified and stripped down release of Ubuntu. OpenELEC has been built from scratch specifically to act as a media center. Live is based on minimal Ubuntu, thus you can easily install all services and applications that are available on Ubuntu repositories, and as a pre-requisite, Live includes all the system files necessary for the Ubuntu ecosystem.  Essentially, the user who is looking for an XBMC-optimized customization of the standard Ubuntu OS would likely prefer XBMC Live. The user who would like XBMC stripped down to the very most basic essentials for ultimate boot time would likely prefer OpenELEC.

In the streamlining process, OpenELEC cuts out any and all unnecessary drivers and optimizes those drivers that are present. In furtherance of this, specific NVIDIA ION and AMD Fusion-based systems have been developed, in addition to the generic build.

Beyond enhanced boot time, perhaps the most interesting features of OpenELEC are the network of additional addons that are separate from XBMC-proper, which allow for LiveTV functionality, GUI configuration, self-updating, and media downloading, among other things.

With release 1.0, OpenELEC becomes fully compatible with XBMC 10.1 Dharma. Now that most of the underlying architecture is in place, OpenELEC should be able to update to XBMC Eden relatively quickly, once Eden has been released.

For a relatively easy to follow guide on installing OpenELEC, feel free to check out the Lifehacker article on OpenELEC. And, of course, go to OpenELEC to download the goodness. For those of you who have already tried out OpenELEC in the past or are going to in the near future, head to the comments to let us know how the experience went.

Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress and Responsive Web Design

A few days ago, I mentioned that a responsive design was my favorite WordPress theme feature. Of course, I wouldn’t be doing well to promote my favorite feature without at least pointing you in the right direction to learn how to do it yourself.

Straight from WordCamp San Francisco 2011, here’s Sara Cannon with a great presentation on responsive web design in WordPress.

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AppMobi Creates XDK Framework for PhoneGap Development

HTML5 development studio appMobi is releasing a new tool today for developers to create, emulate and test PhoneGap projects. The appMobi PhoneGap Mobile App XDK is an integrated developer environment (IDE) that offers a full suite of developer tools for creating HTML5 and PhoneGap applications. The new appMobi XDK is the first of its kind for PhoneGap development and is an intuitive tool for developers working on PhoneGap projects.

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PhoneGap is not actually called PhoneGap anymore. It will soon be going by the name Apache CallBack as part of its entrance into the Apache Software Foundation and Nitobi acquisition by Adobe. AppMobi is known for pushing the bounds of HTML5 development and this new framework fits well within its vision for free tools to help developers create apps for the mobile Web. With PhoneGap integration, those apps can now easily be made native.

The appMobi PhoneGap XDK is a full development environment that also works with other programming editors such as DreamWeave 5.5 or NotePad++. Hence, developers do not really need to learn a whole new editor to be able to use the framework The goal is to reduce the coding and debugging cycles for developers. The PhoneGap XDK allows for testing and emulating of PhoneGap code to see how it will function on either iOS or Android devices with features.

Some may think that appMobi's PhoneGap XDK is a curious move for the company. After all, appMobi is one of the biggest proponents of going away from native frameworks and using HTML5 to build mobile Web apps. The answer is a simple business proposition - if you are building in PhoneGap, you are building in the mobile Web. PhoneGap just wraps it in a native format. Though appMobi's frameworks are free, it offers paid cloud services (in the same way as Kinvey, Parse, StackMob and Urban Airship, to a varying degrees) that can offer in-app purchases, push notifications, analytics and live updating. Business 101: get them in the door and they are more likely to buy a product.

It is not that appMobi has created a honey pot to lure developers into using their cloud services. There really is a need in the ecosystem for a dedicated PhoneGap IDE that works outside of the native frameworks. In a way, appMobi wants to turn PhoneGap around and instead of publishing PhoneGap projects to native frameworks, actually publish them to the mobile Web. It is a clever strategy as appMobi works on evangelizing HTML5 and the company's tools that developer for it.

Check out the video below that reviews the PhoneGap Mobile App XDK from appMobi and let us know in the comments if this is the type of tool that would work in your development environment.

WPTavern: Video Featuring Matt Of WordPress With Dries Of Drupal

Here is the recorded video featuring the presentation of Matt Mullenweg of WordPress with Dries Buytaert of Drupal discussing open source. Kudos goes out to the Schipulcon group for getting these two together for an awesome presentation. The audio is terrible until you hit the 4 minute mark. If you want to see a transcript for some of the questions you can read them on the Schipul Blog. Definitely watch from 32 minutes onward as that is when the audience starts asking some pretty good questions.

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