Editorials

Case Study: Transcending E-mail As a Platform for Multi-Person Collaboration

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:15:00 EDT

E-mail is extremely easy to adopt and use, and lends itself very well to certain types of collaboration. When two people are attempting to collaborate asynchronously, e-mail is usually the best solution. It's certainly far less frustrating than phone tag. But once more people are involved, email's utility rapidly degenerates. While the rise of free, open-source solutions makes it tempting to build one's own collaboration tools, on-demand or Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions are the better choice for the majority of users and uses.

AJAX World Editorial — Taking AJAX Seriously

Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:45:00 EDT

Over the past two years, AJAX as a general technological approach seems to be maturing very quickly. I won't bore this magazine's savvy audience by recounting for the umpteenth time how, when, and by whom the term was coined, and I fully realize that many of you had been working - sometimes for years - with JavaScript, XML, and related languages and approaches before the term AJAX came into existence.

AJAX Editorial — The AJAX Story Is Still Just Beginning

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:15:00 EDT

The conjunction of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 this month with the publication of the 600-page blockbuster Real-World AJAX, the announcement by the OpenAjax Alliance of the OpenAjax Hub and OpenAjax Conformance, the release by Laszlo Systems of OpenLaszlo 4.0 and the Laszlo Webtop...all these thing coming together at once mark a significant milestone in the brief history of AJAX, rich user experiences in general, and the growing challenges and opportunities in this space as we continue to witness a tectonic shift in the way Web apps are designed and built.