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JavaScript Hijacking

News - 54 days ago

Although the term "Web 2.0" does not have a rigorous definition, it is commonly used in at least two ways. First, it refers to Web applications that encourage social interaction or collective contribution for a common good. Second, it refers to Web programming techniques that lead to a rich and use read more

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Scared but Still Got Amazon- or Google-Envy? See Cassatt

News - 54 days ago

Cassatt, the company started by BEA founder Bill Coleman, is redirecting its data center widgetry into creating internal clouds comparable to Amazon or Google out of infrastructure customers already have in-house. Coleman observed that most IT professionals aren’t comfortable outsourcing the missio read more

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Timing in JavaScript and browsers can?t be trusted

News - 54 days ago

This is officially the week of John. If he delivers top notch posts for the rest of the week he wins an Ajaxian award or something. Maybe we need to bring back the “pack of cards” where each card is an Ajax personality and John gets to be Ace of Hearts or something.
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What?s not in HTML 5?

News - 55 days ago

In Mark's latest installment of This Week in HTML 5 he delves into what ISN'T in the spec:

It has been suggested (1, 2, 3, &c.) that HTML 5 is trying to bite off more than it can metaphorically chew. It is true that it is a large specification, and it might benefit from being [...] read more

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yboss - a wrapper for Yahoo?s BOSS API

News - 56 days ago

BOSS - Build Your Own Search Service (the your is silent for reasons I cannot tell you as it would endanger the lives of our agents in the field) is a Yahoo! API to access their search index and get the data back either as XML or JSON. Whilst there is ample documentation available it [...] read more

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Social network marketing - lessons from the elected president

News - 57 days ago

If you haven't heard, there is something called "social network marketing" now, basically using (hopefully not abusing) social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace to make noise about you, your services, etc.
With so many SN sites out there, where is your time and effort best spend? C read more

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Telerik Release RadControls and UI Components

News - 57 days ago

Telerik has announced the Q3 2008 release of its RadControls UI components and Report designer. Telerik registers significant growth in its developer tools portfolio by adding an enterprise-grade ORM product and a rich suite of components for Silverlight. Telerik presents RadControls for Silverligh read more

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Virtualization Journal: Sun Claims To Revolutionize Storage

News - 58 days ago

Storage has been like a penitential chain around Sun’s neck and it’s left unspeakable gouges. Sun’s $4.1 billion acquisition of StorageTek was one of the reasons the company wrote off $1.4 billion of its business in the September quarter. But, for the last couple of years Sun Storage has been worki read more

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Zeus Technology Named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

News - 58 days ago

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization and cloud computing technology provider Zeus Technology named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's upcoming 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo (www.CloudComputingExpo.com), November 19-21, in San Jose, California. The c read more

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AJAX 2009: More Choices, Tough Decisions

News - 59 days ago

The story of software development in the last few years has been driven by the need to provide a good user experience without installation issues and update woes. For some people that has meant building "smart client" applications, as promoted by Microsoft. For others, that has meant building rich read more

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