How to Drive More
Performance from AJAX By Anil Gurnani  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 Mar. 31, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 1,763 read & respond » |
AJAXWorld Report:
Crockford Speaks on
"Fixing the Web" By Eric Miraglia Douglas Crockford gave a
keynote at the AJAXWorld
East 2008 conference in
New York City last week.
As ever, Douglas was
pulling no punches - his
title: 'Can We Fix the
Web?' The browser,
Douglas says, was behind
the times when it was
introduced, and it hasn't
aged well. It wasn't
desig Mar. 31, 2008 01:15 PM Reads: 3,532 read & respond » |
AJAXWorld Report: Cold
Weather, Arctic
Snowcruisers and a Shift
in Perception By Christian Heilmann This is a good chance to
jot down my experiences
during AJAXWorld. I had
braced myself to stand in
front of a large room
full of suits that needed
to go to the conference
rather than wanting to
go. Turns out I was
wrong. The audience was a
mixed crowd of company
owners, project manager Mar. 31, 2008 04:30 AM Reads: 4,039 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
AJAX Testing - Best
Practices By Ken Gardner  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 Mar. 30, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 1,580 read & respond » |
AJAXWorld Report: How To
Integrate MyFaces
Trinidad By Matthias Wessendorf Last week I was attending
the AJAXWorld East
conference to speak about
Apache MyFaces Trinidad
and how to integrate it
with some other open
source projects, such as
Facelets, Dojo or Yahoo!
UI. I think the talk went
very well and I uploaded
the slides today. The
demo is not downloadabl Mar. 30, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 2,747 read & respond » |
Do We Need to Teach
Designers Programming? By Yakov Fain  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 Mar. 30, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 9,098 Replies: 5 read & respond » |
AJAXWorld Report: Flex
and Flash Are Starting to
be Talked About a Lot
More By Andre Charland  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. Mar. 30, 2008 07:15 AM Reads: 3,720 read & respond » |
AJAXWorld Report:
Clearspring at AJAXWorld
in New York By Justin Thorp Last week I was in New
York City for AJAXWorld.
I filled in for our CEO
Hooman Radfar at a talk
he was going to give on
'The Social Aggregator -
Widgets Reshape the
Social Web.' It went
really well. We had the
room filled with about 40
people. There was a lot
of great discussion about Mar. 30, 2008 06:45 AM Reads: 3,146 read & respond » |
AJAXWorld Report:
Inaugural iPhone
Developer Summit in New
York City By Kevin Hoffman  I want to thank everyone
who showed up to share my
enthusiasm for the iPhone
as it is, what I believe,
the mobile development
platform to target. I
also want to thank those
people who tolerated my
evasiveness and lack of
detail during the SDK
session. As I've said
before, just because Mar. 30, 2008 05:30 AM Reads: 7,294 read & respond » |
AJAXWorld Report: GWT &
Java EE – Where Are
All of the Alligators? By Dietrich Kappe Just a quick update from
the conference (which is
now over). I gave my talk
at AJAXWorld East 2008
and got some interesting
reactions. Met a lot of
cool folks, put some
faces to names, got to
sit on a panel with
Douglas Crockford. Cool
beans. More next week. Mar. 30, 2008 04:30 AM Reads: 3,455 read & respond » |
Enterprise Widgets: The
Story So Far By Richard Monson-Haefel  Desktop widgets have been
around for a very long
time. The first set of
desktop widgets were
introduced by Apple back
in 1983 with their
release of Apple Desktop
Accessories. Obviously
Apple was way ahead of
the curve, but these
early widgets were not
Internet enabled - the
popular Int Mar. 30, 2008 02:45 AM Reads: 8,722 Replies: 4 read & respond » |
Rich Text Editing in Web
2.0 Applications By Sam Elsamman  Rich text editing is
becoming an essential
part of Web 2.0
applications that deal
with user-generated
content, publishing, and
collaboration. While text
editing is built into
modern browsers,
harnessing it into a
stable usable application
isn't always as simple as
it should be. Managin Mar. 29, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 2,537 read & respond » |
OpenAjax F2F Meeting in
New York City By Coach Wei  The F2F meeting of
OpenAjax Alliance at NYC
on March 21st worked out
really well in my
oppinion. As a result of
the last F2F meeting in
October 2007, we formed a
new task force called
'Runtime Advocacy Task
Force' at OpenAjax. The
goal of Runtime Task
Force is to collect a
'wish list' Mar. 29, 2008 07:30 AM Reads: 6,512 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
ComponentArt Releases
Web.UI 2008.1 - Featuring
the New Hyper-Responsive
AJAX UI By RIA News Desk  ComponentArt is pleased
to announce the
availability of Web.UI
2008.1, the premium suite
of user interface
controls for ASP.NET. The
Web.UI release in 2008
expands the suite yet
again by introducing a
highly-demanded file
upload control, while
further extending the
company's lead in th Mar. 28, 2008 03:00 PM Reads: 2,678 read & respond » |
Windows Mobile Discussion
During iPhone Developer
Summit By Kevin Hoffman  During the Q&A period
after one of my sessions
at the iPhone Developer
Summit last Thursday,
there was someone there
from Microsoft
Competetive Intelligence.
She asked myself and some
other folks who were
lingering nearby to
describe, in our unbiased
opinions, what we thought
was wrong Mar. 25, 2008 11:15 PM Reads: 7,015 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
Sybase Releases Secure
Email at AJAXWorld's
"iPhone Developer Summit"
in New York City By iPhone News Desk Sybase iAnywhere
announced availability of
support for Apple iPhone
during the first
international iPhone
Developer Summit,
colocated with AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo 2008
East. Information
Anywhere now enables IT
organizations to provide
secure delivery of Lotus
Domino and Microsoft E Mar. 25, 2008 07:30 PM Reads: 6,262 read & respond » |
New IBM Software Brings
Web 2.0 to Mobile Phones By Wireless News Desk IBM announced that the
Lotus Expeditor software
platform is extending
desktop computing and Web
2.0 capabilities to
mobile phones. Mobile
phone users will be able
to run several
desktop-style
applications like social
networking, mashups and
other consumer or
business applications
simul Mar. 24, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 3,971 read & respond » |
Evolution of Web 3.0 By Web 2.0 News Desk Web 3.0 is a different
way of building
applications and
interacting on the web.
The core model of web 3.0
states that entire World
Wide Web will be seen as
a single database. Many
tools are being developed
through which
interactivity between
different websites with
different data can b Mar. 24, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 2,571 read & respond » |
Can We Fix the Web?
Yahoo!'s Douglas
Crockford Says "Yes!" at
AJAXWorld By RIA News Desk 'The web was not intended
to be an application
platform,' said Douglas
Crockford today as he
delivered the Opening
Keynote at the 5th
International AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo, 'and
the biggest problems in
the browser is security.'
For over ten years
attacks have been
possible through Mar. 21, 2008 05:30 PM Reads: 3,620 Replies: 1 read & respond » |
iPhone Developer Summit By Kevin Hoffman  This session will provide
attendees with an
overview of the iPhone
SDK, including discussion
of the App Store, Apple's
planned distribution
channel for SDK
applications. Keep in
mind that the contents of
the SDK and experiences
while using it are
covered under NDA, so be
prepared for m Mar. 20, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 9,959 read & respond » |
Justin Thorp Presents at
AJAXWorld By RIA News Desk By many accounts, 2007
was 'the year of the
widget.' In November 2007
alone, 81 percent of all
Web surfers saw a widget
on the Web, according to
ComScore - that is 148
million people - about
half of the U.S.
population. These are not
just 'hit counters' at
the bottom of Web pages.
New Mar. 20, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 2,519 read & respond » |
Appcelerator Revamps Open
Source Developer
Community - Extends
Excitment at AJAXWorld By Enterprise Open Source News Desk Appcelerator announced
the launch of its new
open source developer
community, the
Appcelerator Developer
Network. 'The response to
our revamped developer
community has been
overwhelming,' said Jeff
Haynie, CEO of
Appcelerator. 'In just a
few days, over 500 new
community members have si Mar. 20, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 3,199 read & respond » |
AJAXWorld - How Can We
Deliver a "Continuous
Experience" on the Web? By RIA News Desk Delivering a 'continuous
experience' on the Web
can only be achieved by
either mastering the 200
different AJAX toolkits
out there, or employing a
platform like Nexaweb's
Enterprise Web 2.0
Platform. That, in a
nutshell, was the
take-home from Coach Wei
& Bob Buffone's highly
entertain Mar. 20, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 2,044 read & respond » |
Widgets, Security, and
the OpenAjax Alliance at
AJAXWorld By RIA News Desk No longer can only Google
do JavaScript in the
browser. AJAX toolkits
galore have flourished
and now, without having
to have geniuses on your
payroll, companies can
build Google-like apps.
But there is enormous
diversity among the AJAX
toolkits, said John
Ferraiolo today at the
5th In Mar. 20, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 1,847 read & respond » |
DataWidgets In Action at
AJAXWorld By RIA News Desk Olivier Poupeney,
Co-Founder & CEO of
DreamFace Interactive,
demonstrated what
DreamFace boldly calls
'The Ultimate Web 2.0
Framework' at the 5th
International AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo in New
York City today. Aimed at
the enterprise, the
DreamFace Outsider
framework builds on the
pr Mar. 20, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 1,965 read & respond » |
AJAX Toolkits Wiki Helps
Developers Evaluate UI
Components for Building
RIA User Experiences By RIA News Desk Catalyst Resources
announced the public
launch of the AJAX UI
Toolkits wiki. The new
wiki identifies a list of
UI components used in
business software
applications to develop a
Rich Internet Application
user experience. Each
AJAX toolkit on the wiki
is displayed using the
same format a Mar. 20, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 1,861 read & respond » |
Nexaweb Offers Plug-In
AJAX & RIA Tooling at
AJAXWorld By RIA News Desk Nexaweb announced Nexaweb
Studio 4.0 -- the latest
release of its
Eclipse-based Integrated
Development Environment
(IDE) for
enterprise-class mashup,
composite and rich
Internet applications
(RIAs). Nexaweb Studio
4.0 is available as a
plug-in to IBM Rational
Application Developer for Mar. 19, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 1,593 read & respond » |
"Most of Web Innovation
So Far Has Been On the
Server," Says Jeff Haynie
at AJAXWorld By RIA News Desk Jeff Haynie gave a
whirlwind history of the
browser this morning at
the 5th International
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo in New York City,
with a view to showing
how the way we build
applications has evolved
over the years of Web 1.0
and now moving into Web
2.0. He covered the rise
of Jav Mar. 19, 2008 02:30 PM Reads: 1,536 read & respond » |
Appcelerator Unites RIAs
and SOA with Latest
Software Releases By RIA News Desk Appcelerator announced
updates to its software
that will further its
ability to bring together
RIA and SOA. The company
has created Appcelerator
RIA Developer, an Eclipse
plug-in that makes it
easy for developers who
prefer an Eclipse
environment to create
Appcelerator projects. It
is Mar. 19, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 2,454 read & respond » |
Arun Gupta Takes jMaki
Webtop For a Spin at
AJAXWorld By RIA News Desk The jMaki mashup
framework known as Webtop
was unveiled at the 5th
International AJAXWorld
Conference * Expo in New
York today by Sun's
technology evangelist
Arun Gupta. The mashup
framework represents the
goal when the jMaki
project began two years
ago, said Gupta. Mar. 19, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 1,786 read & respond » |
The DreamFace Developer
Challenge Is Launched @
AJAX World By RIA News Desk DreamFace Interactive
launched their DreamFace
Developer Challenge.
DreamFace is inviting
developers to download
the new version of their
DreamFace Web 2.0
Framework for creating
Enterprise 2.0 Mashups,
also announced at
AJAXWorld, and to build
their own DreamFace
DataWidgets for submi Mar. 19, 2008 09:00 AM Reads: 1,579 read & respond » |
DreamFace Interactive
Launches 'Outsider' at
AJAX World By RIA News Desk DreamFace Interactive
announced the immediate
availability of
'Outsider,' a new version
of their DreamFace Web
2.0 Framework for
creating Enterprise 2.0
Composite Applications
and Mashups. DreamFace
builds on the major
concepts of Web 2.0: Do
IT Yourself,
Personalization, and
Sharing a Mar. 19, 2008 08:30 AM Reads: 1,472 read & respond » |
OpenAjax Alliance
Announces New Initiatives
at AJAXWorld By RIA News Desk  The OpenAjax Alliance
revealed new standards
and open source
initiatives for secure
mashups, AJAX on mobile
devices, and a unified
browser wish-list from
AJAX toolkit suppliers.
AJAX is the technology
behind most Web 2.0
applications, including
the increasingly popular
'mashup,' a webs Mar. 18, 2008 04:15 PM Reads: 1,906 read & respond » |
M / Gateway to Exhibit at
AJAXWorld 2008 By RIA News Desk M/Gateway Developments,
is a UK based company
that specializes in
advanced web application
technologies, integration
and middleware
technologies. Their
flagship product, eXtc
Web Developer (EWD), is a
rapid web application
development technology,
incorporating a powerful
yet simple-use Mar. 18, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 2,302 read & respond » |
Farata Systems to Exhibit
at AJAXWorld 2008 By RIA News Desk Farata Systems is a
leading IT consulting and
product development
company providing
enterprise-wide IT
solutions specializing in
the area of rich Internet
applications. The company
has been created by the
merger of two consulting
companies: Computer
Technology, and Smart
Data Processin Mar. 18, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 1,485 read & respond » |
Kaazing to Sponsor AJAX
World, March 18-20, in
New York City By RIA News Desk  Kaazing, headquartered in
Silicon Valley,
California, . We provide
real-time software
solutions to customers
who really care about
their end-user experience
when it comes to
usability, scalability,
and performance. In
addition to providing
commercial enterprise
software delivering the Mar. 18, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 2,039 read & respond » |
OASIS to Exhibit at
AJAXWorld 2008 By RIA News Desk  OASIS (Organization for
the Advancement of
Structured Information
Standards) is a
not-for-profit,
international consortium
that drives the
development, convergence,
and adoption of
e-business standards. The
consortium produces more
Web services standards
than any other
organization alo Mar. 18, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 2,061 read & respond » |
OpSource to Exhibit at
AJAXWorld 2008 By RIA News Desk OpSource, delivers Web
applications and software
as a service for
on-demand companies, with
hundreds of applications,
millions of users and
billions of transactions
supported daily. OpSource
On-Demand, the leading
platform for Web
application delivery, is
defining how Web-based
softwar Mar. 18, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 1,544 read & respond » |
UX and UI Expert Olivier
Poupeney To Speak on
Mashups at AJAXWorld By RIA News Desk With over 15 years of
work on improving the
user experience through
the user interface,
Olivier Poupeney contends
that a new mode of
information visualization
known as a Mashup
combined with the
collaborative aspects of
Web 2.0 is finding
success where Composite
Applications struggled. Mar. 18, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 3,393 read & respond » |
Front-End Engineers & RIA
Experts Are Coming To
AJAXWorld By RIA News Desk  One Great City, Two Great
Keynotes, Three Intense
Days, Eighteen Core
Topics, Eighty-Five
Content-Rich Sessions,
Ninety-Eight Expert
Speakers - what better
way to summarize the 5th
International AJAXWorld
Conference & Expo than
through this numerical
whirlwind tour? Enjoy! Mar. 18, 2008 02:00 PM Reads: 12,998 Replies: 4 read & respond » |
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