Despite the similar names, Windows Mobile / Windows Phone and the Windows we use on desktops don’t share the same kernel. While the Linux kernel used in Android devices and the one used in desktops are quite similar, the same has not been true of Windows desktop and mobile OSs. Come Windows Phone 8 this will change.For those who might not know this, the kernel is the very core of any operating system. It handles direct communication with the hardware, managing system resources such as CPU, RAM, and I/O devices. Applications built to run on one kernel will not run on another. Despite looking and behaving drastically different, Ubuntu Linux, Android and MeeGo at their very core use the Linux kernel. It is possible for some applications written for MeeGo to run directly on Ubuntu,...

Google hopes to make Dart one of the official languages of the web; but before that is feasible it will need some fluent “speakers” first.Dart is similar to JavaScript, so someone coming from the JavaScript world should not have too much trouble understanding it. Also, Dart in most can be used with a syntax similar to JavaScript; however this would not be taking advantage of the new features Dart brings. This is where Google’s JavaScript to Dart Synonym app comes in.The JavaScript to Dart Synonym app compare common programming idioms in JavaScript and Dart, so people can can a quick reference for the best way to accomplish something in Dart if they know how to do it in JavaScript.For example, in Dart typing is optional, so while you can declare a variable in the...

For those who haven’t heard of it, Bootstrap is a web development library that helps you get a kick-start in building the UI of your application.It features a number of components such as buttons, button groups, dropdowns, tabs, tabbars, etc. It provides a 12-column grid for designers to base designs on, and in v2 it supports responsive design as well (support for multiple screen sized, tablet, mobile, desktop).In addition it also includes a number of jQuery plug-ins that can make pages more interactive. These include a plugin for modal dialogs, dropdowns, scroll detection, tabs, tooltips, popovers, alert boxes, buttons; and new in Bootstrap 2 are the collapse / accordion plug-in, carousel, and typeahead. The documentation has also been improved a lot in the new 2.0 version and it...