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The importance of tools in rich Internet application platforms

The RIA space is white hot. Microsoft, Adobe, the vast number of Ajax frameworks out there and companies like Laszlo Systems, Curl, and Appcelerator are all focused on creating great platforms and applications for rich Internet applications. We might even see JavaFX this year. Back when I did my predictions...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Development Platform, Tooling, Productivity, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-02-20

AMD unveils line of energy-efficiency chips

AMD unveils line of energy-efficiency chipsSeems like new line of lipstickLooks like same old chips with a new name... move along. It's good to see that AMD can still sell the Athlon X2 for $680 when the core 2 duo will run 40% faster and 30% cooler for $300. Let's...

Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, IBM Corp., tooling, NOW HERE, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., chip, CPU, C

Discussion threads 2006-05-16

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Are we "done" with rich Internet applications?

This week I've been putting together slides and preparing for my talk at Web 2.0 Expo New York City. I'm doing one titled "Making Sense of Rich Internet Applications" so it's more of a general talk covering everything from Adobe's stuff, to Microsoft Silverlight, to the mobile world, and now...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-09-04

10 reasons to love Silverlight and 10 reasons to hate it

Update: I found out that this is the second most hated post on ZDNet in the past 90 days. That's an impressive and dubious honor and it was a wakeup call not to do posts like this. I think Tim's post is awesome, but next time I won't link without...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Silverlight, C#, Microsoft Windows, .Net, Programming Languages, Desktops, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open Source

Development environments: Microsoft vs. Open SourceA little simple reasoning... is enough to reveal what's going on. Let's try.Quote: "Anything you can do with Microsoft servers, clients, Office, and dot.net technologies I can do better [i.e. at some combination of greater functionality, lower risk, and lower cost] using the standard LAMP/SAMP...

Tags: Development tools, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Microsoft Corp., open source, development environment, PHP, environment, Cocoon

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

SOA places broad demands on IT leadership beyond traditional enterprise architect role, says Open Group panel

The enterprise architect is really more focused on trying to bring the organization together around a business strategy or mission. And, certainly, they understand the tooling and how to translate the mission, vision, and strategy into an SOA architecture -- at least in the government. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Open Group, Enterprise Architect, Leadership, Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2008-08-04

JavaFX preview SDK available

Sun released a preview SDK for JavaFX which gives developers a first look at the RIA play for Sun. Coté has a couple of videos up wth Nandini Ramani, the Director of Engineering for JavaFX and we did a Podcast with Joshua Marinacci as part of RIA Weekly that should...

Tags: Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-07-31

Market disaster on Wall Street plays positive in Silicon Valley

You may think the U.S. is divided along political lines, perhaps you sense a rift in cultural values. But let me tell you that's peanuts compared to the coming brutal high-stakes rift over the core of the US economy. Will it be Pentagon contracts, oil and gasoline? ...

Tags: Clean Technology, Wall, Construction, Mortgages, Investment, Finance, Capital Structures, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-07

Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a chipmaker again?

Via open sources laptop designs; Will it make Via relevant as a chipmaker again?VIA exposes open source limitsThis move exposes the logical limits of open source. You can't "open source" everything because it costs hundreds of millions to run a fabrication operation. The gesture of releasing the design either becomes:...

Tags: Notebooks, Semiconductors, CAD Design, open source, laptop computer, PCB, open sources laptop design, laptop design, chip company

Discussion threads 2008-05-27

Windows 7: The information lockdown

Windows 7: The information lockdownSeriously!They're not even saying anything when they should be going beyond open sourcing their new product! They should give it away, I mean, that's how everyone makes money isn't it?! Giving away your stuff? I mean, yeah, *I* can't do that because I need to pay...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Quick Look, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

Mashups turn into an industry as offerings mature

There were a great many product announcements at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last month, but it was the number of announcements around Web-based mashups in particular that received a large share of attendee and media attention. By my count there were at least nine significant announcements in...

Tags: Web, Industry, Mashup, JackBe, Lotus Mashups, MashupHub, Mindtouch, Itasca, Serena, Mashup Exchange, SnapLogic, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Flash Player 10 codename "Astro" goes beta

We made available a prerelease version of the Flash Player last night which has a lot of new features. There isn't yet a tooling release we just posted a new Flex SDK that works to support the Flash Player beta so for the time being this is primarily so that...

Tags: 3D, Macromedia Flash Player, Flash Player 10, Complex Effect, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-15

Microsoft issues first SP1 betas for VS 2008, .Net Framework 3.5

Microsoft is making available to testers a first beta release of Service Pack SP 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5. On May 12, Microsoft made available to any/all interested parties the first beta bits for both VS 2008 SP1 and .Net Framework...

Tags: Microsoft ADO.NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft Corp., Beta, Astoria, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-05-12

SAP BPM - business fail?

SAP BPM - business fail?BPM makes Business/IT conversation more neededHaving been in the BPM space for well over a decade, I guess I would consider myself a BPM pragmatist rather than purist. But having been chasing the right balance of business user input and operational integrity my entire career, I...

Tags: Business process automation, Operational planning, Strategy, Enterprise software, Supply chain management (SCM), SAP AG, BPM

Discussion threads 2008-05-07

Put New Capabilities of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to Work, Part 8: Enabling WebSphere Business Monitor V6.1 to Receive Events Via WebSphere MQ

In the mortgage lending business scenario used throughout this series of papers, the implementation of the business process application has not yet been defined. WebSphere Business Monitor can monitor business process applications running in virtually any environment, as long as CBEs can be generated from their activity and transmitted to...

Tags: Business Process, Monitor, IBM WebSphere, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM Corp., Business Process Application, WebSphere Process Server Application, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2008-04-29

Eclipse co-founder Skip McGaughey on Open Health mission

Skip McGaughey, who was the original co-chair of the Eclipse Foundation while at IBM, has a new mission, to bring that same open source collaboration to health care. McGaughey, who has been based in Asheville, NC since launching Eclipse, is the first head of the Open Health...

Tags: Health Care, Eclipse, Standards, McGaughey, OHT, Kestrel, Terminology People, Java Development Tools, Open Source, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Image2Punch Pro (exe)

Image2Punch is CAD software used to generate custom perforated patterns based on virtually any digital image document. The perforated pattern can then be converted into a DXF file format for a variety of purposes either at design stage or in the manufacturing process. At the design stage, for example, you...

Tags: Pattern, Aucad Drafting, Image2Punch, CAD, Manufacturing, Software

Software downloads 2008-04-03

Standards support for mashups emerge

The announcement earlier this week that IBM has put together an open approach for making user data secure inside of Web mashups, known as SMash, was the most recent step in an unfolding story about the way the industry is trying to bring structure and order to the rapidly growing...

Tags: Standards, Mashup, DataPortability.org, OpenSAM, OpenSAM Vision, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2008-03-20

Early photos of AMD Shanghai CPU

Early photos of AMD Shanghai CPUIntel wants to FAIL???Didn't Intel see how well that strategy worked for AMD?RE: Early photos of AMD Shanghai CPUI think AMD and Intel MCM strategy are different.When intel started their MCM products, they were trying to counter AMD multi products, and they did not have...

Tags: Processors, photograph, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD Shanghai CPU, CPU, Nehalem-EX

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

MSDN Webcast: Introducing Application Lifecycle Management (Level 100)

This webcast introduces Application Lifecycle Management ALM, explain the business rationale and benefits of ALM, and explain how an organization can get started with ALM. It also introduces Microsoft Visual Studio Team System as the Microsoft solution to support ALM through tooling and process enactment.

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Microsoft Corp., Application Lifecycle Management

Webcasts 2008-02-29