Adobe's Hoyt: "The Next Generation of Desktop Apps Will Span Platforms"

'AJAX developers brought Web 2.0 to the browser,' says Adobe's Kevin Hoyt. 'Now they can leverage their JavaScript and HTML skills - as well as the IDEs they are familiar with and already use - to build the next generation of desktop applications that span platforms.' Hoyt will be giving a session at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West next month (September 23-26) at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

AJAX and Rich Internet Application Developers Wanted

It's a great time to be an AJAX or Rich Internet Application developer. Backbase, which is growing quickly, is constantly on the lookout for talented people to join its team. At AJAXWorld 2007 East in March of this year, the company was looking for Senior AJAX Consultants in San Mateo and Amsterdam to deliver its consulting and training services.

You are nuts, guys!

Sometimes changes are good, sometimes are bad indeed. And sometimes so @#$@# annoying. I have a bad feeling that Google's Blogger.com team got nuts at some point, otherwise i just can't find explanation on how the hell you can handle usability and accessibility this way for users from different countries...

I use blogger.com for quite a while, indeed i like it in general, was very satisfied with all last changes, until i decided to go and visit Ukraine. Today i open blogger.com and what i see there? Guess what? Exactly, interface in Ukrainian language! What the @#$@@##?? Took me a while to figure out that one of the links on the bottom is actually language switcher. Obviously, to make my life harder it was written in Ukrainian language. Like it was so @#$@#%& hard to put some "Language/XXXXXX" sorta link, so people at least will be able to find it by intuition, not by clicking every single link in hope that this is the one they wants.

Get real. Get some brains.

Data Services Made Easy for Flex Applications

Flex has gotten popular lately because of its rich GUI capabilities. It also comes in handy with HTTPService and Web Service components connecting to back-end servers to fetch and update data. But using this mechanism to talk to the back-end server requires formulating a unique service object from the Flex side, making a request, and getting back data from the back-end either in XML or plain text ...

Gaia AJAX technology set for .Net developers

Gaia Ajax Widgets, an alternative AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) library for developing ASP.Net and Mono applications, has been upgraded with re-factoring to make it easier to view and modify code.

Researchers Warn of Ajax Attacks

Companies that have used Asynchronous JavaScript and XML to jazz up corporate Web sites may be dangerously vulnerable to a variety of Web-based threats, warned researchers at the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas this month. Billy Hoffman of SPI Dynamics said at the conference that many corporate Web developers are not paying attention to fundamental Ajax security issues.

A Comparison of Push and Pull Techniques for AJAX

AJAX applications are designed to have high user interactivity and low user-perceived latency. Real-time dynamic Web data such as news headlines, stock tickers, and auction updates need to be propagated to the users as soon as possible. However, AJAX still suffers from the limitations of the Web's request/response architecture, which prevents servers from pushing real-time dynamic Web data.

AJAX, Flash, Silverlight, or JavaFX: Must We Choose?

AJAX has forever altered user expectations regarding the experience delivered by the Web. In today's world, users sit at the edge of their seat waiting to see what scrumptious eye candy AJAX will serve them next.

10 Things You Should Know About Microsoft's Silverlight

Crafting a Web strategy is important for any thriving business. However, implementing that strategy with rich Internet applications is not always as easy as it should be.

Cynergy announces Silverlight application development

Cynergy, one of the top Flex development firms, announced that they will be jumping into Silverlight development. They are the first major RIA development firm I know of to publically put support behind Silverlight.

Eclipse AJAX Toolkit Framework

The AJAX Toolkit Framework (ATF) provides exemplary tools for creating and debugging AJAX applications. These tools include enhanced JavaScript editing features such as edit-time syntax checking, an embedded DOM browser, CSS Tools, JavaScript debugger, a JavaScript console, and an embedded Mozilla Web browser.

Before Deploying Your Web 2.0 Apps, Have You Looked Yet at OpenLaszlo?

What company, well-known for pushing the frontier of desktop-like user experience, has pioneered an open source platform that allows developers to combine the rich user interface capabilities of desktop client software with the universally accessible, no-download features of web-delivered applications?

The Role of AJAX in Web 2.0 Apps: Schmidt vs Owyang

As he consumed Eric Schmidt's press briefing during the Google CEO's mid-week stopover in Seoul, Korea, web strategist Jeremy Owyang posted a note on Twitter saying that he was 'Laughing at Eric Schmidt's definition of Web 2.0...' ? 'He says that Web 2.0 is AJAX. ROFL' Owyang wrote, implying that the definition was way too restrictive.

Build Dynamic Database Applications in .NET with Project Codename "Jasper"

Instead of moving to Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET developers might consider Project Codename "Jasper" and the growing number of .NET dynamic languages. In this article, you'll learn how to use Jasper.

4D Ajax for Dreamweaver Now Available

4D Inc., makers of an integrated development platform for building and deploying business applications, announced today the release of 4D Ajax For Dreamweaver, a plug-in for Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 that inserts 4D Ajax Objects into web sites.

Rush to Ajax Makes for Happy Hackers

The rush to adopt Ajax is leading web developers to make basic security mistakes, in some cases a decade old, that leave gaping holes in their applications.

Software allows design of AJAX-enabled dialog windows.

Studio Enterprise 2007 v2 is component toolset for Windows, Web, Mobile, and ASP.NET AJAX-enabled applications. It features WebDialog for ASP.NET for developing interactive ASP.NET applications and creating flexible and interactive model/modeless dialog windows for Web which also includes ComponentOne WebInput for ASP.NET.

AltovaXML Named Best XML Parser and Best XSLT Processor by Readers of SOAWorld Magazine

Altova® , creator of XMLSpy® and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced that AltovaXML was named "Best XML Parser" and "Best XSLT Processor" in the 2007 SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards.