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- AJAX
- Asynchronous JAvaScript and XML Using an enhancement in JavaScript that allows Web pages to be more interactive and behave like local applications, which are also known as "rich client"...
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- Curl Report
- Screenshots of images from the Curl RIA report. by Ryan Stewart
- Tags: Screenshot, Image, Ryan Stewart, screenshots, curl, flex, ajax, rich internet applications
- Image galleries 2007-09-26
- IronMonkey to let users write Ruby and Python on Tamarin
- During Brenden Eich's keynote today at Ajax Experience West Ajaxian had the scoop, he announced that Mozilla will be creating a projects which I think are hugely significant for the rich internet application world at large and Flash developers in particular. That project is Iron Monkey, which in Brenden's words...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Ajax, AIR, Adobe, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- Extending SalesForce.com and SOA with rich internet applications
- The team at Nitobi have been working on a contact management application that's built in Adobe AIR and hooks into the SalesForce.com API. They did it to show off some of their components but the actual demo is a good example of where rich internet applications can really start to...
- Tags: Salesforce.com, Rich Internet Applications, Rich Enterprise Applications, Ajax, AIR
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Confusion, fear and doubt around Rich Internet Applications
- There is a post up over on Read/Write Web which aims to paint a picture of Rich Internet Applications and poses the question, RIA: What is it good for? Unfortunately I think they miss the mark a bit with both the definition of RIAs and the analysis behind the technologies....
- Tags: WPF, Silverlight, Rich Media, Flash, Apollo, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-06-01
- New version of ColdFusion aimed at .NET, Ajax crowd
- The very first language I ever programmed was Quick Basic. The next one was Java in an introduction computer science class. But the first time I ever made real money programming it was building ColdFusion when I worked for Wharton Computing. As a result, ColdFusion has always held a special...
- Tags: Adobe, Ajax, ColdFusion, Flex, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Sun enters the Rich Internet Application world with JavaFX
- Infoworld is reporting that Sun will announce JavaFX on Tuesday which will be a response to the growing popularity of technologies like Ajax, Flash and Silverlight. The platform uses the Java runtime and a scripting language called JavaFX Script which is "focused on the content-authoring and content creation crowd....
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, JavaFX, Flash, Ajax, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Expanding Web 2.0 to the masses with Rich Internet Applications
- There is a report today that details a survey by Pew and covers how Americans see themselves in the tech infrastructure. The finding is that while Web 2.0 gets a ton of buzz, Only 8% of people in America really do a range of Web 2.0 activities. Only 31% of...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- What's next for OpenLaszlo?
- With the announcement that Flex was going open source I was waiting for Cotes take last night, more than a few people wondered what the implication was for Laszlo Systems, a company that helped start the RIA craze and had open sourced its product last year and become the only...
- Tags: Adobe, Flex, OpenLaszlo, Rich Internet Applications
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Is Silverlight a Flash competitor or an Ajax play?
- Quick clarification. Flash and Silverlight are obviously competitors when it comes to videos and general features (vector graphics, animation, ect) but the point of the post is more to think about the next step in the value chain. For Flash, that seems to be building rich applications with Flex. For...
- Tags: Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, Mix07, Microsoft, Flash, Ajax
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft's Rich Internet Application technologies
- Now that Silverlight is being talked about, people seem to be comparing Apollo and Silverlight in the same posts. I think this stems from the fact that both are still alpha/beta and that the two technologies "cross the streams" into the other companies territory. For that they are significant, but...
- Tags: Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe, XBAP, WPF, Silverlight, Rich Internet Applications, On2, Microsoft, Flex, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Why Do People Hate Building Desktop Applications?
- After reading Paul Grahams inflammatory post about how Microsoft is dead, Simeon Bateman and I got into a little back and forth over IM about the merits of what he was saying. I tend to agree with Don Dodge, about both the title of the piece and the "real meaning"...
- Tags: WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Apollo, Ajax, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- The war for Ajax developers
- I think theres a war for Ajax developers and Im not sure the people involved realize it yet. I look at Ajax developers as the pioneers of the web. Like the heroes of the old west they combine a rugged ingenuity with a bit of crude willpower to make a...
- Tags: AJAX, AJAX Developers
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Apollo public alpha coming in the next few weeks
- For those of you who have been waiting to see what the buzz around Apollo is all about, you wont have to wait long according to Mike Chambers. Mike says the first release will be targeted at Flex developers, but those interested in the Ajax side will still be able...
- Tags: Ajax, Apollo, Flex, Rich Internet Applications, Adobe
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- With their RIA tech, Microsoft could toast Google in the SaaS world
- I have to hand it to Phil, he called me out and pwned me. He gave perfect examples of why data is not necessarily safer in the users hands than it would be with Google. I still think theres something to be said for knowing that Im responsible for my...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Google, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, .NET 3.0, Ajax, WFP/E, WPF
- Blog posts 2007-02-23
- 5 Rich Internet Application conferences you should attend this year
- This post is long overdue, and I apologize because I think a lot of people may have spent their conference budgets or already made plans. In fact some conferences, like 360 Flex, are already sold out. We have a rich slate of conferences to choose from this year, which...
- Tags: Adobe, Ajax, Apollo, Cynergy, Design, Flash, Flex, Microsoft, Mix07, OpenLaszlo, Rich Internet Applications, WFP/E, WPF
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Rich Internet Applications are terrible at 'view source'
- Theres a good post over at Ajaxian about how more and more Ajax applications are taking steps to obfuscate their source code. The view source issue is, in my opinion, the greatest threat to steady adoption of Rich Internet Applications out there. I love Flash and Flex, and I...
- Tags: Ajax, Flash, Flex, Rich Internet Applications, WFP/E
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Bruce Eckel on Java and Rich Internet Applications
- Bruce Eckel, the author of Thinking in Java and a pretty influential figure in the Java community posted a long, eloquent assessment of the web, Java and Rich Internet Applications. To me its a signal that RIAs continue to gain ground and Bruce has some great thoughts on the subject....
- Tags: Programming languages, CSS, AJAX, Java, RIA, Web
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Microsoft releases ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
- Today Microsoft released "Atlas" or what has become ASP.NET Ajax 1.0. Scott Guthrie has the big news and Mary Jo Foley here on ZDNet has some good information as always. You can go grab the framework on the ASP.NET AJAS website. So were finally seeing a release version of...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, Ajax, ASP.NET AJAX, Microsoft ASP.NET
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- My thoughts on Expression Session 07
- I had a very, very long day yesterday that revolved around what I thought was an extremely good Expression Session by Microsoft. This was the first run of the event there are two more in Chicago and New York and while there were a couple of rough spots, for the...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Microsoft, Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio, Burton, GPS
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Will the iPhone legitimize Ajax applications?
- I stopped to read a post by Raju Vegesna about the iPhones impact on web applications like Zoho (See, Techmeme sponsorships work). In it, Raju talks about how hes excited by the prospect of a "full fledged browser" on a mobile device: I was particularly excited about...
- Tags: AJAX, Ajax Application, Apple iPhone, mobile marketing
- Blog posts 2007-01-16
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