Anil Channappa, the product manager at Adobe for the LifeCycle Data Services product says they are going to support REST architectural styles in their product line. Such addition would allow Ajax/HTML and Flex UIs to not only co-exist but cosume data from services using the same infrastructure. Sounds like a good idea. Our best wishes [...]
Frank Sommers of Artima posted a story titled — “Has JavaFX Hurt Client-Side Java?” — yesterday. He argues that Sun’s focus on promoting JavaFX has taken its focus off Swing. He says Swing is a popular and well adopted technology for cleint side desktop applications and will gain from inclusion of productivity enhancing improvements.
In addition [...]
Greg Wilkins has a great post on Comet benchmarking and scalability testing. He says that although a Chat application has become the defacto example for demostrating Comet’s capabilities, it may not be the most accurate example for testing Comet’s scalability characterstics. He suggests that a stock update example may be possibly more accurate. In the [...]
Check out Scott Guthrie’s latest set of links on ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight from his link-listing series. He also links to his really useful ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and the Silverlight Tutorials Page.
Most mapping softwares associate a physical address to a latitude and longitude tuple. This is called geocoding. With Google Maps and its API you can do geocoding on the server with the HTTP geocoding service or on the client with GClientGeocoder. With the latitude and longitude in place, its easy to position the spot on [...]
Jeff Wilcox says “Awesome controls are coming for the Silverlight platform“. To summarize, following are a few new and useful controls in Silverlight 2:
Better built in controls like progress bar and password box. Better styling and WPF like feel.
Better performing and more accessible DataGrid with improved API and the template column facility. Scott Morrison in [...]
If you have legacy web applications built on Apache Struts in your setup and you are looking to migrate them over to leverage Flex for a much richer and interactive interface, then you will benefit from reading “Bridging the gap between Flex and Struts using FxStruts“, an article written by Anirudh Sasikumar, who also happens [...]
A brief but interesting conversation online with Rebecca M. Riordan, author of Head First Ajax (O’Reilly, 2008).
Ria Revolution [RR]: Hello Rebecca, Congratulations on authoring “Head First Ajax” (HFA). To get things started would you like to introduce yourself and tell us what inspired you to write this book?
Rebecca Riordan [Rebecca]: Thanks. I’ve been writing technical [...]
Eric Feminella in “Continuous Integration with Hudson” says his first impressions of Hudson are very positive and he seems to prefer it over Cruise Control, which he has been using for quite a while now. Hudson can be downloaded from its project website at java.net. Installing it in a Servlet container is effortless. It didn’t [...]
Opera created Metadata Analysis and Mining Application (MAMA) to search and index the tags and scripts from 3.5 million pages. There are some interesting relevations from this report. They could be summarized as follows:
Apache is still the dominant web sever (Netcraft’s study in November 2007 showed Apache’s presence in 50.76% of all web servers studied. [...]
Learn about the next generation technology for video object manipulation from the Adobe reserach group.
Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.
