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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 
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
The mouse was the
original idea of Doug
Engelbart who was the
head of the Augmentation
Research Center (ARC) at
Stanford Research
Institute. Engelbart's
philosophy is best
embodied, in my opinion,
in the design of another
device that he invented,
the five-finger keyboard
- with keys li
Now, what Google
announced is really
exciting! I'm not
kidding. It's even better
than I hoped. Yes, it's
only Python, but IBM's
PC-DOS was only BASIC and
Pascal when it first came
out, and it didn't
matter. Yeah, I preferred
C, but I coded in Pascal
because that's what you
had to do to
Told ya Adobe was gonna
reorganize and put its
mobile/devices operation
in with its platform
operation in the name of
moving to a single
technology platform and
runtime for PCs, handsets
and consumer devices.
Adobe's new CTO Kevin
Lynch, the creator of
AIR, is basically in
charge of th
Vectors supporting types
are the part of next
release - and are billed
more of
performance/coding help
then language
enhancement. Most of the
Java 5 constructs are not
really applicable to
ActionScript 3 - for fair
comparison you need to
use Java 7/8 with dynamic
scripting language sup
It's what you don't see
about the emerging Web
that has everyone excited
these days. Namely, it's
the powerful application
programming interfaces,
or APIs. APIs are nothing
new and have been
traditionally cryptic and
difficult to use.
However, the advent of
Web services along with
the 
Adobe has put an alpha
pre-release of AIR for
Linux up in hopes, it
says, of getting feedback
from the community, not
to mention winning
adherents. It's
English-only. The company
also joined the Linux
Foundation to encourage
the growth of RIA
technologies on Linux, it
said. The company
If you're like me, you've
probably been spending
every waking moment you
have eating, living, and
breathing the iPhone SDK.
Since March 6th, that's
pretty much all I can
think about once I get
home. So, what do you do
if you want to learn how
to write iPhone apps, but
you want to becom
2008 is going to be an
important year for Rich
Internet Applications.
Most organizations are
delivering or planning to
deliver Rich Internet
Applications; however, at
the same time, most IT
managers are facing a
dilemma: which Rich
Internet Application
technology and platform
to use? T
'Unlocking content to be
remixed into new business
value' is the driver of
Web 2.0 in the
enterprise, says Rod
Smith, IBM VP of Emerging
Internet Technologies, in
this Exclusive Q&A with
Jeremy Geelan on the
occasion of IBM's release
of a new technology
created by IBM
researchers, code
The Web is one of the
most important
technological as well as
social/cultural
developments in our life.
Its global impact is
rooted in its openness
and its capability to
evolve on a democratic
basis. However, I have
concerns. I'm concerned
about the significant
corporate interests driv
For centuries, the
encyclopedia was viewed
as the single most
reliable reference source
for just about
everything. Encyclopedia
articles were written,
edited, vetted, edited
some more, until finally
an article appeared that
was as close to absolute
truth as humans could
make it. Then c
One of the hottest
buzzwords you hear these
days at conferences and
read in blogs and forums
is REST. It is often
promoted as a way of
building Web Services and
as a lightweight
alternative to SOAP and
other Web Services
frameworks, but in fact
it's much more. REST is
an architectural 
If you design an
application that runs on
Windows but doesn't look
exactly like Windows, so
the old argument goes,
the effect will be
unsettling for users. But
sticking to the native
look and feel (L&F)
should not be the
end-goal of designers.
The OpenAjax Alliance is
developing an AJAX
industry wishlist for
future browsers, using a
dedicated wiki for this
initiative. The main
purpose of the initiative
is to inform the browser
vendors about what future
features are most
important to the AJAX
community and why. So
far, the al
Here is a question that I
have been pondering on
and off for quite a
while: Why do 'cool kids'
choose Ruby or PHP to
build websites instead of
Java? I have to admit
that I do not have an
answer. Why do I even
care? Because I am a Java
developer. Like many Java
developers, I get along w
Within the past few
years, Web 2.0 has become
a major technology trend,
dramatically impacting
the way consumers
interact with information
and applications. This
consumer trend is now
extending into the
enterprise; however,
businesses have been more
reluctant than consumers
to adopt th
Apple's iPhone is a
massive hit; the company
has sold millions of
handsets since the
product's launch in June
2007. Within weeks of the
iPhone hitting the
market, the first of
several highly publicized
security exploits, a
Trojan virus targeting
the device, was
identified. SMobile Syst
Despite the web 2.0 hype
and growth of firms of
Y-Combinator, the
corporate venture
investment has not
evolved at all.
Corporations in general
are having a hard time
adjusting to the web 2.0
age. When I brought up
this idea to Microsoft
executives a year ago
during a discussion,
appare 
Two distinct paradigms of
AJAX use have emerged in
the last few years of
AJAX innovation. At one
end of the spectrum, we
see vast use of AJAX for
enriching Web pages -
adding some interactive
features on top of the
basic model of an HTML
Web page. At the other
end of the spectrum we've
This is truly the age of
the browser interface.
Internet Web sites and
Web applications
increasingly offer rich,
dynamic, browser-based
user interfaces that
deliver everything you
expect from an installed
desktop application.
These applications
deliver function and
ease-of-use without 
Fast-spreading rich
Internet applications
require new skills for
development of what was
known as boring-looking
enterprise applications.
In the past, development
of the user interface was
done by software
developers to the best of
their design abilities. A
couple of buttons here, a
gr 
This year's AJAXWorld was
a great success. Seemed
like a lot of people
there, the rooms were
packed. Many sessions
were standing room only
if you could get in. The
folks who were there
seemed very keen and were
lining up early to
register and to get into
the rooms.
