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Ready to create mobile web applications with HTML5? In this 10-week online course, you’ll learn how to build mobile apps using several HTML5 features—including the new semantic elements, geolocation, audio and video tags, local storage capacity, web forms, and the canvas 2D drawing surface. During the course, you’ll combine HTML5 elements with JavaScript and CSS3 to create apps for Twitter, movie trailers, and an address book.

Discover how to style your apps to respond to a device’s vertical and horizontal orientation, take advantage of global positioning, draw your own controls and create basic animations, make your app available to users offline, and more.

You’ll learn to:

• Discover what’s new in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for mobile development
• Build your own Twitter App with these technologies
• Create apps that detect the orientation of mobile devices
• Use geolocation and maps in a location-based app
• Enable mobile users to use your app offline
• Use HTML5 web forms to create an address book app
• Create drawings and animation with JavaScript and HTML5′s canvas element
• Use HTML5′s audio and video elements to build a movie trailer app

Register here: http://training.oreilly.com/html5mobile/
It’s free!!

Adobe ColdFusion 9 (CF9) is a technology platform that allows developers to create web-based applications of any complexity using a set of easy-to-use tools. This DZone Refcard will introduce you to features that allow PHP Programmers to take advantage of this platform.

http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/adobe-coldfusion-web-services

COMDEXvirtual Content Spotlight: “Cloud Vendors: How to Pick the Right Partners”

For solution providers, a key to success in the cloud computing market is selecting the right vendor partners. This session will look at how VARs can make a business and technology assessment of the cloud vendors who staked early claims to the market, as well as the newcomers. It will provide a roadmap for solution providers and IT executives to align with the right vendor partners and assess their existing technology suppliers.

Go to http://www.comdexvirtual.com to learn more and sign up

PHP|Architect is offering a 19 hour course in PHP5. Every HostEntrepreneur should know PHP!

This exclusive 19-hour tutorial-style course covers a variety of topics related to PHP Development. Attendees will be challenged with real-world examples during the course of the class.

This course includes loads of practical application-building exercises and covers the following topics:

• PHP Basics
• Strings & Functions
• Arrays
• HTTP
• Forms
• Cookies & Sessions
• Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Files
• Databases
• SQL

Sign up here

Classes begin 09/24/2010

HostEntrepreneur.com and Lagniappe Internet have no affiliations with PHP|Architect.

The State of Hadoop

Presented by: Tom White,

author of Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Apache Hadoop is a part of a growing ecosystem of projects for large-scale data analysis which is being used to solve problems for organizations in a wide range of disciplines. This talk will touch on what’s new in the second edition of “Hadoop: The Definitive Guide” (coming out in October), and look at how the components of Hadoop and related tools work together as an integrated stack to solve data problems.

Wednesday, September 15th 10:00am- 11:00am PT
Click HERE to register

What Is Hadoop?
The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.

Hadoop includes these subprojects:

• Hadoop Common: The common utilities that support the other Hadoop subprojects.
• Chukwa: A data collection system for managing large distributed systems.
• HBase: A scalable, distributed database that supports structured data storage for large tables.
• HDFS: A distributed file system that provides high throughput access to application data.
• Hive: A data warehouse infrastructure that provides data summarization and ad hoc querying.
• MapReduce: A software framework for distributed processing of large data sets on compute clusters.
• Pig: A high-level data-flow language and execution framework for parallel computation.
• ZooKeeper: A high-performance coordination service for distributed applications.

Combined with the announcement of it’s newest server, HostEntrepreneur’s sponsor Lagniappe Internet also announced support for the XEN (and HVM) virtualization platform. Unlike OpenVZ’s containers, XEN Virtual Private Servers are para-virtualized or Hardware Virtualized. That allows the VPSes to run other operating systems such as Windows or custom kernels. Lagniappe Internet will be allowing Windows VPSes when the customer can supply the ISO of the installation CD/DVD and a scan of the original License Key. Pricing has not been announced, however interested parties are invited to email rob -at- LagniappeInternet.com for more information.

The VPS landscape

an avenue to profit from the cloud

Date:Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Time:1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT

Learn about the current state of the VPS market, the offerings and the options expected by customers around the world. Turn this insight into actions and see how Parallels equips hosting providers of all sizes to maximize their profits from the cloud. After watching this webinar you’ll understand how Parallels enables you to offer new services, enhance existing services and reduce your costs with the Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, the premium virtualization solution for hosting providers.

As a webhost, one thing you never want to be without is the ability to login to your servers and SSH is the standard for doing just that. But there are time when we are away from our computers – even it’s just to the door to get the pizza, the kitchen for more caffeinated beverages, or the bathroom. It happens, we can’t be in front of a computer all the time. Sure, you should have a monitoring system and support staff watching things for you, but what will give you a warm fuzzy feeling is knowing that you can still login even away from the desktop. A while back I told you how to do this with MidpSSH for the Blackberry. But today most of us are using Android based phones or iPhones. (I’m not going to speak to the iPhone side – won’t use one, and think anyone who makes their livelyhood with predominantly FOSS shouldn’t even touch something so closed!)

In the Android world, I’ve started using ConnectBot. It’s a free SSH client on Google Code. And it works pretty well. First you will want to setup your keys. Start ConnectBot, hit the menu button, and then “Manage PubKeys”. Menu Again and tap “Generate”. One quirk was that you need to unlock the keys you want to use before connecting. You can leave them unlocked. But if no key is unlocked it will try to do password authentication. And we know you’re not doing that… right??

Next it’s as simple as selecting ssh as the protocol (probably already is), and enter (username)@(hostname):(port) so if you’re going to login as root on monster.myhosting~company.com (tilde there just to prevent it from hitting some real domain) and it uses port 54322 for SSH it’s “root@monster.myhosting~company.com:54322″

You want to either figure out the key sequences for special characters like | (pipe) – See http://code.google.com/p/connectbot/wiki/DroidKeyboardSymbols or I’d suggest getting the “FullKeyboard” app from the Android Market – not the easiest to use (I love Swype or did before this last update anyway) and that will give you access to pretty much everything you need. But note many of the special characters are under Shift in the symbols keyboard.

Last day to register!

Tapworthy: Designing iPhone Interfaces
for Delight and Usability

Thursday, September 9th 10:00am-11:00am PT
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Tapworthy apps cope with small screens and fleeting user attention to make every pixel count, every tap rewarding. Learn to: capture the elusive ingredients of irresistible mobile interfaces; craft comfortable ergonomics for fingers and thumbs; dodge the usability gotchas of handheld devices; and turn tiny-touchscreen constraints to your advantage. Along the way, you’ll get behind-the-scenes glimpses into the design process of popular apps including Facebook, Twitterrific, USA Today, Things, and others.

About Josh Clark
Josh Clark is a designer, developer, and author specializing in iPhone and iPad user experience. He’s author of the O’Reilly books Tapworthy: Designing Great iPhone Apps and Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders.Josh’s outfit Global Moxie offers workshops and consulting services to help creative companies build tapworthy iPhone apps and effective websites.

Adobe ColdFusion 9 for Education is available for free to educational customers to use for learning purposes only and not for production purposes. This includes all qualified students, faculty and staff of eligible education institutions.

Apply here: https://freeriatools.adobe.com/coldfusion/