Some months ago the First Public Working Draft of Web Notifications was published. The idea behind this specification is to let web applications integrate with the notification system of the operating system. Or with a third-party system (e.g. Growl on Mac OS X). As there has been some confusion in the past I should stress that this is solely an API for showing a message to the user that e.g. a new email or instant message has arrived. This is not push technology; it is not for streaming data over the network.

The DevFest 2010 Lagos event has come and gone, but we are still brainstorming on some of the ideas still brewing in our minds. With just a fews days (hours actually) before the deadline for the submission of our fully formed "prototypes", I can't help but remember the bug I had during the conference while building my map app.

It was very geeky and fun during the Google led DevFest conference which held at Chams City PLC, Ikeja Lagos, Nigeria last weekend. I learnt a lot, and got inspired about several Google technologies which I actually already know before now. 

The workshop featured local and international speakers from Google, Ushahidi, World Bank, and of course a very enthusiastic developer audience.

This has been said because Ext is a very high level language for Web development. It is almost DSL like versus offering low level functions that you can sprinkle in your code. If you buy into the Ext way then you can build UIs in a very simple manner through JSON. This is all perfectly setup for a design tool, and with Ext Designer, they have it.

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