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AJAX
by gautam on June 30, 2006
Initially the Ajax Directory Manager was developed for design company Duarte Design but in the process Chris Iufer decided to name the project Relay and release the code to the public as open source. ...
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E-Commerce
by jason on June 29, 2006
TechSmith recently announced the release of a new version of their Camtasia Studio. This software allows a user to easily create video based presentations. The video presentation can be synchronized w...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 29, 2006
American Coders have come out with a free white paper on AJAX and EDI. This paper discusses the techniques used for creating web applications using AJAX technology. The paper can be checked out at htt...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 28, 2006
David Tran has come up with an Ajax driven route finder widget for London tubes with rails driving the backend. This London tube route finder is an excellent way of using Ajax and it makes the experie...
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Basics
by jason on June 28, 2006
I found this interesting article on the evolutionNext Weblog. There Daniel Hinojosa takes us through an installation of Ubuntu Distrobution of Linux (Ubuntu means "humanity to others" or so ...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 27, 2006
In the recent years malware has become a professional phenomenon. Spoofing and Phishing are being used to get credit card information as well as other valuable information. Now a day's gangs opera...
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Business
by gautam on June 26, 2006
The world of search engines has yet another new entrant. Nusearch has come up with its new search engine that is powered by AJAX. Nusearch is based in Bristol and is the first serious search player fr...
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Programming
by jason on June 25, 2006
The JavaBlackBelt, certification community site, is trying to put together a Ruby programming language basics test. They are accepting questions that could become part of the test right now. It looks ...
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by jason on June 25, 2006
I'm working on an ASP.NET project right now. There are lots of web services involved and a web application that sits in front of it all. The client insisted that all this be written using Microsof...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 23, 2006
Eventfinder, the most popular events calendar in New Zealand has re-launched its website. It has made use of the Ajax technology for the purpose. The increasing success of Eventfinder has led to the r...
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Application Development
by gautam on June 22, 2006
As per the latest announcement from Sun Microsystems, it would be incorporating Java DB and Group Layout component from the NetBeans GUI Builder code named Project Matisse into the latest version of t...
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Business
by gautam on June 21, 2006
Sun Microsystems has come up with Beta 2 Version of its java satandard Edition 6. the former version was known by the code name mustang. As the new version is a run time environment is allows java app...
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Basics
by gautam on June 20, 2006
It has been one year since the award winning OpenSolaris community went live and since then Sun Microsystems has experienced tremendous growth in the open source community and customer adoption. Since...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 19, 2006
Sun Microsystems has joined the OpenAJAX alliance and dojo Foundation in order to drive open standards for AJAX programming and increasing interoperability across AJAX technologies.
As part of this ...
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Basics
by gautam on June 18, 2006
Although developers are still trying to figure out the newly released Java Enterprise Edition 5 but early adopters believe that the platform makes good on its architects pledge in order to simplify ja...
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E-Commerce
by jason on June 18, 2006
Within the last couple years I've found it much easier to try and find existing JavaScript widgets than try and build my own. One site that I've used on a few projects as a resource for widget...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 16, 2006
This is what David Mitchell Smith, V.P., research firm, Gartner had to say about Ajax at the Gartner's annual regional conference held in Tel Aviv- "Ajax is the latest fashion in Web design&q...
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Basics
by jason on June 16, 2006
The folks behind JavaLobby have put together yet another project on the web called Dzone. I found that I really like this latest effort. It is a Digg type site but if you can believe it seems more tec...
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Programming
by gautam on June 14, 2006
As per a benchmark test results published at http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/jAppSer ver2004.html, a popular application server benchmark which features a complete open source stack with My...
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AJAX
by jason on June 14, 2006
Checking out ProgrammableWeb this morning I ran across a mashup that I personally find very useful. As an aside I never normally fine these things immediately useful. Most times mashups come across as...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 13, 2006
Mapsolute has come up with a free Map24 AJAX API in order to integrate advanced mapping technology into websites. In order to support the new Web 2.0 API, the company has also introduced an extensive ...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 12, 2006
Although rated as quite useful, AJAX introduces a new vulnerability into websites and user interactions. The problems are caused when downloaded JavaScript code is executed on the client. A number of ...
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Programming
by jason on June 10, 2006
I listened to a recent Java Posse podcast yesterday and heard about the most interesting project. It is funny sometimes that I think I have a good handle on what is going on in the Java world and some...
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AJAX
by jason on June 10, 2006
On a current project I decided I wanted to do something different. One thing I've heard users ask for during design meetings over the years is the ability to have an autocomplete function on a dro...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 9, 2006
Google has come up with a new AJAX application called Google Spreadsheets. It is still in the development phase. It is similar to microsoft excel in several ways such as formulas, sorting etc. One can...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 8, 2006
Yahoo photos has been around from the year 2K and up till now it has garnered around two billion photos and around thirty million monthly users. Even though it was an early player in the game but it w...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 7, 2006
The good thing about Ajax is that it enables updating of content within the page
without performing a full browser refresh but it also causes problems. The problem erupts at the development stage. A ...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 6, 2006
IBM would be contributing key intellectual assets to the open source community in order to help companies and software developers adopt and share best practices for Ajax software development.
As Jav...
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Business
by jason on June 6, 2006
Last week a marketing manager at oDesk emailed me to make me aware of their company. Seems folks are starting to understand pushing the name recognition of a company can happen through blogs now.
Wi...
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Application Development
by gautam on June 5, 2006
Google has come up with a beta version of 0.1 of Google AJAX Search API and can be freely downloaded. The Javascript enables developers to create embedded search modules which can dynamically search o...
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AJAX
by jason on June 3, 2006
Since I've been writing web applications that incorporate AJAX I've been frustrated by the development effort it requires. Specifically I've been frustrated by the debugging process involv...
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Application Development
by gautam on June 2, 2006
Intel is contributing AWT and Java2D packages and Java2D packages along with a Swing package to the Apache Project harmony which has been in implementation since May last year for creating a clean roo...
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AJAX
by gautam on June 1, 2006
At JavaOne 2006, Ajax emerged as the most popular technology and Java developers were actually going crazy about it as hundreds lined up for each and every session which had Ajax written in it. It mig...
