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This Week in HTML 5: Mark Pilgrim?s new blog series

News - 21 days ago

I am really jazzed about the first entry in a new series on HTML 5. Mark Pilgrim (of Python, Greasemonkey, Open Web, writer extraordinaire, and creator of Google Doctype) has started the series This Week in HTML 5 which aims to keep us up to speed on the spec, and progress across the board (what [. read more

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Today?s mail: a box full of ? my book!

News - 21 days ago

Finally! The wait is over! After people have already managed to read the book, the chef d'oeuvre that is my Object-Oriented Javascript and some have published 5 star reviews on Amazon, the author finally gets his copies. Oh, happy day! 15 copies, yeey. I don't get to keep them all, because 10 are f read more

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Yahoo Music API

News - 21 days ago

This was meant to be a longer posts with examples and such, but Jim Bumgardner said it and coded it better than I could He's been with Y!Music way longer than me and has done way cooler stuff.

As a front-end engineer for Yahoo! Music, I've always thought it would great if the web servic read more

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Seeing stars

News - 21 days ago

It's been interesting few days lately for me, celebrity-wise.
Agassi/Graff
First, last Thursday, Andre Agassi and his wife Steffi Graff came to the Yahoo! center in Santa Monica (my workplace) and played with our kids and signed tennis balls. This was fun, check out: vid, vid, vid, pics. read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference - Extreme RIA: Developing Customer Solutions in an Evolving Landscape

News - 21 days ago

In this talk, ILOG's Chief RIA Architect and Project Manager will share his experiences working with customers on RIA projects. He will describe requirements of RIA, the market acceptance, and technical limitations based on various approaches. The session will also include a live RIA demo on many d read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference - Saving Your Investment: Transforming J2EE Applications Into Web 2.0 Using GWT

News - 21 days ago

The pressure is on to keep pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. Rewriting is expensive; adding AJAX widgets results in a complex, unmaintainable application. Both require you to hire scarce JavaScript developers. Google Web Toolkit -- the SDK that allows you to write AJAX interfaces in read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference: Making the Business Case for RIAs in the SME Market

News - 21 days ago

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can benefit from RIAs for all the same reasons large enterprises can: enhanced user experience and resulting customer loyalty, decreased development and deployment costs, and increased employee productivity. But how do you persuade a manager with limited re read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference: RIAs & SaaS - Like Bees & Honey

News - 22 days ago

25% percent of new business software will be delivered as SaaS by 2011, according to Gartner. RIAs are essential for SaaS applications. But the characteristics of SaaS RIAs can be very distinct from other web applications, including componentization, scalability, unified user experience, and integr read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference: Spice Up User Experience with Silverlight

News - 22 days ago

Microsoft introduced Silverlight as cross-platform, cross-browser next generation RIA solution. This session will use real world implementations to show you how to build a Silverlight application from start to finish, as well overall strategy why we should or shouldn't use Silverlight. No matter wh read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference - User Experience and RIAs: How Does It All Come Together?

News - 22 days ago

RIAs provide the promise of an excellent User experience, but the ultimate success of the UX is driven more by the skill of the developer than the tool selection itself. This session will discuss the foundation and importance of the application of cognitive science techniques to the process of desi read more

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