Only a few days left before our Vodafone & Betavine AppStar developer day which is being held in London on November Friday 13th.
During the day you’ll get a crack course in how to build basic widgets from our best and brightest brains. We’ll give you the skills to create your own Widgets [...]

Last week the “Summer of Widgets” event in Germany took place. This was the last public event before the end of the competition.

Very early on a Saturday morning Peter-Paul Koch (@ppk) gave an introduction to W3C widgets. Chris Heilmann, Y! Evangelist (@codepo8) introduced everybody to one of the major APIs of Yahoo!. He explained in detail the YQL (Yahoo Query Language) and demoed the developer console showing some javascript examples.

I was recently invited to present at the Vodafone devcamp event in Milan on Tuesday as part of the Vodafone Summer Of Widgets campaign we are running (#vfsow and www.betavine.net/summerofwidgets).
After getting up extremely early I arrived in Milan and was second on after Francesco from Vodafone Italy kindly introduced me.  I ran through why Vodafone [...]