Europen AJAX Technology
Leader Telerik Announces
.NET Components and
Reporting Tool By .NETDJ News Desk  Telerik announced the
landmark release of its
Q1 2008 RadControls for
ASP.NET AJAX and
WinForms, and Telerik
Reporting. The new
release represents a
final touch in Telerik's
goal to offer a
comprehensive and mature
toolset of
next-generation web and
desktop components. Apr. 28, 2008 08:15 PM Reads: 1,877 read & respond » |
Beyond AJAX to the Rich
Internet Application &
Rich Interactive
Experience Era By Jeremy Geelan  RIAs offer the potential
to fundamentally change
the user experience and
in doing so, yield
significant business
benefits. The theme of
this October's AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2008
West is 'Beyond AJAX to
the RIA Era' and the Call
for Papers, which is
currently still open,
specifica Apr. 28, 2008 07:00 PM Reads: 38,284 Replies: 3 read & respond » |
AJAX E-mail Client
Integrates Into Web 2.0
Applications By RIA News Desk  Zapatec introduced the
Zapatec AJAX E-mail
Client, the second in a
series of self-contained
modules designed for
integration into Web 2.0
applications. Zapatec's
AJAX E-mail Client
enables developers to add
needed web-based e-mail
functionality to their
applications, freeing
them to fo Apr. 28, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,767 read & respond » |
AJAX World - ILOG Targets
RIA Development on .NET
Platform By RIA News Desk  ILOG announced that its
latest graphics toolkits
for the .NET platform are
aimed at helping
Microsoft developers
create rich internet
applications (RIA),
specifically interactive
and visually-rich
diagrams and Gantt
charts. ILOG Diagrammer
for .NET 1.5 and ILOG
Gantt for .NET 3.5, ILOG Apr. 28, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,808 read & respond » |
Nitobi Uprades AJAX
Component Suite with
Safari Support By RIA News Desk  Nitobi enhanced its AJAX
component suite with the
release of Complete UI Q2
2008. This release
strengthens the popular
AJAX development tools
with Safari 3 support, a
new hierarchical grid
component, a variety of
new themes, and
multi-component
Dreamweaver extensions
that make use-case Apr. 28, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 1,650 read & respond » |
AJAX World - Cooking CRUD
with Flex and BlazeDS By Yakov Fain In today's cooking class
you'll add to your
cookbook a delicious
recipe. It's quick and
won't cost you a dime.
I'm sure you've been in
one of these situations
when you have unexpected
guests arriving in 20
minutes and need to make
a good impression. Let's
create an application
that Apr. 28, 2008 10:15 AM Reads: 3,762 read & respond » |
Java Updater: Sun and
Google Are as Bad as
Apple By Bob Plankers Apple's taken some heat
lately for their decision
to push Safari to anybody
who runs their Apple
Software Update utility.
I didn't want Safari, but
unless I opt out of it
I'll get it. Now Sun and
Google are doing the same
thing with the Google
Toolbar. It isn't enough
that they allow y Apr. 28, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 4,697 Replies: 4 read & respond » |
AJAX World - Who Will Win
the Next Battle for the
Desktop? By Richard Monson-Haefel The computer desktop
today is what the
television was to people
in the 1980s. It's the
single most important
channel for consumer
entertainment and
information. The computer
desktop - as was the case
with newspapers before
there was radio and radio
before there was
television - has bec Apr. 27, 2008 10:30 AM Reads: 6,821 Replies: 3 read & respond » |
Are Social Networks Just
Another MMO Grind? By Kevin Hoffman  You remember back in the
early days of video games
when there wasn't enough
capacity on the carts
themselves to support 30
hours of gameplay? What
was the solution to keep
you playing? They made
the games unbelievably
freaking difficult. Try
playing Kid Icarus now
after having played a Apr. 26, 2008 07:15 PM Reads: 3,741 Replies: 2 read & respond » |
IBM Debuts Virtualization
Server for Web 2.0 By Virtualization News Desk IBM introduced t a new
category of server
designed to address the
technology needs of
companies that use Web
2.0-style computing to
operate massive data
centers with tens of
thousands of servers.
Companies that operate
massive scale-out data
centers spend 10 to 30
times more on energy Apr. 24, 2008 07:15 PM Reads: 1,718 read & respond » |
Catalyst Resources and
Backbase Will Do AJAX By RIA News Desk  Catalyst Resources and
Backbase announced an
alliance to provide an
end-to-end design and
development solution for
rich Customer Engagement
and Enterprise AJAX
applications. AJAX,
already the technology of
choice for rapid
development and
deployment of Rich
Internet Applications, is
be Apr. 24, 2008 03:15 PM Reads: 2,089 read & respond » |
Force10 Networks Supports
IBM's iDataPlex Solution
For Web 2.0 By Web 2.0 News Desk Force10 Networks
announced its enterprise
switching technology will
support IBM's iDataPlex.
iDataPlex more than
doubles the number of
systems that can run in a
single rack while using
40 percent less power and
will be aided by the high
density and robust
functionality of
Force10's Eth Apr. 23, 2008 01:00 PM Reads: 2,680 read & respond » |
Which of These Six Open
Source Companies Will Be
the Next Red Hat? By Mark R. Hinkle  In the world of open
source software Red Hat's
crossed over from
exciting leader to
respectable elder
statesman. The action is
among the new batch of
up-and-coming open source
software companies who
are not yet venture
backed but are developing
interesting technologies
and services. He Apr. 22, 2008 07:15 PM Reads: 6,681 read & respond » |
AJAX World - Curl
Launches Adobe AIR
Competitor By RIA News Desk Curl announced the beta
release of Curl Nitro,
the code name for an
extension of the Curl
Rich Internet Application
(RIA) platform which
offers enhanced desktop
capabilities required by
today's enterprises. The
Nitro extension
simplifies the process of
installing and managing
Curl appl Apr. 22, 2008 06:30 PM Reads: 5,101 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
AJAX World - Backbase
Introduces Customer
Engagement 2.0 By RIA News Desk  Backbase introduced
Customer Engagement 2.0,
rich applications that
help businesses make
stronger, more profitable
customer connections. The
new application suite
takes advantage of Web
2.0 technologies to ease
and expand customer
relationships. Backbase
Customer Engagement 2.0
applica Apr. 22, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 1,922 read & respond » |
Behr Migrates Corporate
Website to JBoss By Linux News Desk Red Hat announced that
Behr has migrated its
Website from IBM
WebSphere to JBoss
Enterprise Application
Platform in an effort to
reduce total cost of
ownership, increase
reliability, eliminate
vendor lock-in and
accelerate its
development lifecycle.
The Behr.com Website is
an important Apr. 22, 2008 08:45 AM Reads: 2,053 read & respond » |
Good News for AJAX
– The Browser Wars
Are Back! By Jon Ferraiolo  After years of dominance
by a single browser,
Microsoft's Internet
Explorer (IE), and few
advances within IE, the
world has changed. There
is now healthy
competition among
multiple browsers over
standards compliance,
AJAX features, AJAX
performance and
trustworthy computing.
The compet Apr. 22, 2008 07:45 AM Reads: 3,931 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
AJAX and Open Source
Communities Must
"Liberate" the HTML Web
from the Unweb By Christopher Keene Web development and
customer expectations
have far outstripped the
table management
capabilities of HTML. The
web needs to evolve to
support building the Rich
Internet Applications
that people want to use.
At the same time, web
tools need to evolve to
be able to handle the
increasing c Apr. 21, 2008 06:30 PM Reads: 2,719 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
Is the Silverlight
Adoption Rate
Artificially Inflated? By Kevin Hoffman  Silverlight 2.0 is a
freaking phenomenal RIA
development environment
and I would actually, at
this point, put the
development experience in
Silverlight 2.0 above and
beyond Flex. I can do
more faster and have it
look better and run more
efficiently in
Silverlight 2.0 than I
can in Flex Apr. 21, 2008 05:45 PM Reads: 7,827 Replies: 3 read & respond » |
AJAX World - Adobe Flex 4
Is Shaping Up By Yakov Fain  Adobe has published their
first plan of what should
be included in Flex 4
that is scheduled to
release next year. Since
Flex is an open source
product, you have a say
in this too. Obviously,
there's a hope that
upcoming Thermo release
will bring together
developers and designers.
I'm c Apr. 21, 2008 05:45 PM Reads: 4,669 Replies: 2 read & respond » |
GoGrid Launches Facebook
Servers for Developers By Web 2.0 News Desk GoGrid announced the
availability of GoGrid's
QuickStart Facebook
servers, which allow
businesses to build and
deploy Facebook
applications. The
QuickStart Facebook
Server automates and
speeds up the Facebook
application setup
process, enabling
Facebook developers to
create, integrate, Apr. 21, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 2,684 read & respond » |
Sybase PowerBuilder
Delivers AJAX and .NET
Enhancements Enabling
Rich Internet Application
Development By PowerBuilder News Desk  Sybase announced that
AJAX development
capabilities and further
Microsoft .NET
enhancements have been
added to the latest
version of Sybase
PowerBuilder 11, the
premier 4GL rapid
application development
(RAD) tool. PowerBuilder
11.2 represents another
milestone in the
PowerBuilder road Apr. 21, 2008 09:45 AM Reads: 3,370 read & respond » |
End-User Computing
Powered by User Mashups
Growing, Says Gartner By Web 2.0 News Desk According to research
firm Gartner, more than
30% of Global 2000
organizations will enter
a new era of end-user
computing via
user-assembled, composite
applications created with
enterprise mashup
environments by 2010.
Against this background
IBM has launched its IBM
Mashup Center Produ Apr. 21, 2008 06:45 AM Reads: 2,528 read & respond » |
Two Doors to Enterprise
Web 2.0 Adoption By Christopher Keene  Ben Worthen of the Wall
Street Journal recently
posted an entry about Web
2.0 adoption. He cited a
Forrester survey that
concluded Enterprise Web
2.0 solutions would gain
broad adoption in 2008
despite clear CIO
resistance to the siren
call of blogs and wikis.
Open source technologies Apr. 21, 2008 05:00 AM Reads: 8,292 read & respond » |
Wavemaker Adds SOA Expert
Roger Sippl to Its Board By SOA World Magazine News Desk WaveMaker announced the
appointment of Roger
Sippl to the Board of
Directors. With over 30
years of experience in
building and managing
enterprise software
companies, Sippl will
help guide WaveMaker as
it continues to expand
its AJAX open source Web
application development
platform. Th Apr. 19, 2008 10:30 PM Reads: 1,857 read & respond » |
Cynergy Selected by
Microsoft for Global
Agency Initiative By RIA News Desk  Cynergy Systems announced
it has been selected by
Microsoft to participate
in the Microsoft Global
Agency Initiative. This
invitation-only
initiative has resulted
in a group of the top 20
interactive agencies that
Microsoft recommends to
its customers. Cynergy
has developed a number of Apr. 18, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 1,825 read & respond » |
Exadel dVision Certified
for MySQL Enterprise 5.0 By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Exadel announced Exadel
dVision, the company's
Rich Internet Application
for on-demand access to
enterprise data stored
across multiple data
sources, has been
certified for MySQL
Enterprise 5.0. As a
MySQL Enterprise
Certified Partner,
Exadel's new enhanced
support for the MySQL
open s Apr. 18, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 1,808 read & respond » |
AJAX Push Comes of Age By Steve Maryka AJAX Push has always been
an integral capability of
the ICEfaces framework,
but for the longest time
it was not a primary
consideration of the
average technology
evaluator. We always
found this surprising,
because the impact that
push can have on a web
application is far more
profound Apr. 18, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 1,049 read & respond » |
Facelift Your SOA with
Rich Internet
Applications By SOA World Magazine News Desk  We are entering an era of
Rich Internet
Applications (RIA) and
enhancing the user
experience of consumers
of the services becomes
an important part in
designing and
implementing SOA. But if
you decide to develop
rich clients, you'll be
facing the dilemma -
which way to go - remain
with Apr. 17, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 2,521 read & respond » |
Cynergy Helps Concentric
Software Drive Change in
the Real Estate Industry By RIA News Desk Cynergy Systems shared
details of a Web 2.0
application that will
drive change throughout
the Real Estate industry.
Known as EvolutionMLS ,
the browser and operating
system-agnostic rich
Internet application
leverages the power of
the Web to fully utilize
the possibilities of the
MLS ( Apr. 17, 2008 11:30 AM Reads: 2,461 read & respond » |
The Latest World Wide Web
Sub-Species: "Domainers" By Web 2.0 News Desk  Pizza.com sold recently
for $2.6M, and vodka.com
for $3M. Domain names are
now a global business.
The explosive growth in
online advertising has
seen Internet
entrepreneurs earn
millions of dollars by
buying, selling,
developing and monetizing
web addresses, or domain
names. There are Apr. 17, 2008 05:30 AM Reads: 2,669 read & respond » |
Backbase Releases
Enterprise AJAX 4.2,
Offering Developers
"Choice" By RIA News Desk  Backbase introduced
Enterprise AJAX 4.2, a
new version of the AJAX
framework. This new
release gives developers
more choice than any
other AJAX framework.
Choice translates into
unmatched productivity,
as AJAX developers can
choose their preferred
technology and
methodology. Apr. 16, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 1,227 read & respond » |
Gomez Announces Web
Performance Testing
Support for Microsoft
Internet Explorer 8 By .NETDJ News Desk  Gomez announced support
for Microsoft's Internet
Explorer (IE) 8 beta 1.
Using the Gomez
ExperienceFirst platform
of on-demand web
application experience
testing and measurement
services, developers can
quickly understand how
existing and new
applications will look
and perform in IE8, Apr. 16, 2008 12:00 PM Reads: 1,859 read & respond » |
DreamFace Interactive
Launched The DreamFace
Developer Challenge At
AJAXWorld 2008 East By RIA News Desk At the AJAXWorld 2008
East Conference,
DreamFace Interactive
launched their DreamFace
Developer Challenge.
DreamFace invited
developers to download
the new version of their
DreamFace Web 2.0
Framework for creating
Enterprise 2.0 Mashups,
and to build their own
DreamFace DataWidgets for Apr. 15, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 1,236 read & respond » |
DreamFace Interactive
Announced "Outsider" A
New Version Of Their
DreamFace Web 2.0 Open
Source Framework By Web 2.0 News Desk At the AJAXWorld 2008
East Conference,
DreamFace Interactive
announced the
availability of
'Outsider', a major new
version of their
DreamFace Web 2.0
Framework, for creating
Enterprise 2.0 Composite
Applications and Mashups.
DreamFace builds on the
concepts of Web 2.0: Do
IT Yourself, Apr. 15, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 4,633 read & respond » |
Anthony Franco's
AJAXWorld Keynote - "RIAs
Are Only Valuable If They
Are Useful" By RIA News Desk Most of what is being
produced even by the best
Web designers right now
is not useful, said
EffectiveUI President
Anthony Franco in his
morning keynote at the
5th International
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo in New York City
last month. Displaying a
Starbucks Coffee site
that he called 'a Apr. 15, 2008 06:45 AM Reads: 7,530 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
ICEfaces 1.7 Is Here! -
Something for Everyone By Ken Fyten  ICEfaces 1.7 is here! A
lot of sweat and a few
tears went into it, and
it took a little longer
to arrive than many of us
would have liked, but I
think you'll be very
pleased with how it
turned out. The
culmination of over 45
enhancements, 110
improvements, and 300 bug
fixes, there's no Apr. 15, 2008 06:00 AM Reads: 1,149 read & respond » |
Book Review: Advanced
AJAX by Shawn M. Lauriat By Brian J. Dillard Because AJAX moves so
much application logic
from the server to the
client, it forces many
developers to master a
wider range of web
technologies than ever
before. To work
effectively on AJAX
projects, front-end
developers have to
concern themselves with
database performance,
business Apr. 14, 2008 06:00 AM Reads: 4,304 read & respond » |
Silverlight 2 - Adobe
Flex Killer Is on Its
Way! By Kevin Hoffman  Silverlight 2.0 kicks ass
and I can't wait to start
dropping more hardcore
blog posts regarding it.
Scott Guthrie's tutorials
are a fantastic place to
start. The issue I have,
however, is that all of
the tutorials assume you
have installed
Silverlight 2.0 tools for
VS 2008. There is a Apr. 13, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 14,414 Replies: 22 read & respond » |
Appcelerator Integrates
RIA Platform with Google
App Engine By RIA News Desk  Appcelerator announced
that it has updated its
platform to allow
applications built using
Appcelerator to be
deployed to the free new
Google App Engine. Used
together, the offerings
give developers a fast
route to developing,
deploying, managing and
scaling their
applications. Appceler Apr. 11, 2008 01:30 PM Reads: 4,005 Replies: 1 read & respond » |