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SYS-CON Webcast - DreamFace: The Ultimate Framework for Creating Personalized Web 2.0 Mashups

News - 10 days ago

You’ve heard about Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups, you’ve seen the press, now you can see the real thing; announcing “Outsider”, version 3 of our highly acclaimed DreamFace Open Source AJAX Framework for building Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups. Find out how to build personalized and shareable Web 2.0 Mashu read more

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At the (Java)Ranch this week

News - 10 days ago

There's a book promotion event this week at the JavaRanch's HTML and JavaScript forum, ranchers are asking all kinds of interesting questions about my OOJS book. There will be a free book giveaway at the end of the week, so come in and join the fun.
Yesterday my post count got from 0 to [...] read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference Early Bird Savings to Expire This Friday

News - 11 days ago

Rich Internet Applications 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 still open, specifical read more

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AJAXWorld RIA Conference - Speaker Mike Girouard's JavaScript Design Patterns, #2

News - 14 days ago

Load time configuration is the process where a JavaScript application configures itself as it is being loaded. This pattern is most commonly found in libraries in which they configure themselves at load time to be optimized for a particular browser. Load time configuration is also known as load tim read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo Attracts Top Faculty

News - 14 days ago

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, specifically encourage read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo - The UX Meme Is Reaching the Enterprise at Last

News - 15 days ago

In SYS-CON's annual round-up of technology predictions earlier this year, Brad Abrams, a Group Program Manager at Microsoft, highlighted the likelihood of what he called 'the UX meme of the consumer facing world [leaking] into the enterprise' and noted: 'The days of the battleship gray, forms of da read more

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Is VMware Buying Red Hat?

News - 16 days ago

Because of its slow growth - a factor of the freebie open source business model - Red Hat has become fodder for Wall Street acquisition speculation, BusinessWeek says, and offers VMware as a possible suitor. Such an acquisition would give VMware the operating system it's lacking, make its products read more

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Web Services Manifesto - RESTful Architecture and the Programmable Web

News - 16 days ago

I don't need to go into too much detail here about what exactly REST is - I know that most of the readers of this blog are well versed in Web Services technologies and architectural patterns. The thing that I want to cover is that REST is an architectural decision, it is not a protocol or a wire fo read more

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Themes & Topics at the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

News - 16 days ago

A round-up of the overall themes and topics being presented at the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA, October 20-22, 2008 - including AIR & Flex, AJAX, ASP.NET, Business Case for RIAs, Cloud Computing, Comet, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), iPhone Dev read more

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Page Test: Run AOL?s tool in the cloud, then sit back and wait

News - 16 days ago

Patrick Meenan has setup an IE7 instance in Virginia that we can poke to do an AOL Page Test.
You give it a URL and some options such as the number of runs, whether to see the first and repeat views, and off it runs.
When finished you get to see the results which give you high [...] read more

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