By Jeremy Geelan Hamburg, Germany-based froglogic, the company behind Squish, the professional automated cross-platform automated UI testing tool for GUI applications based on Qt, Tk or XView and for HTML-based web applications running in different web browsers, announced this morning that Squish versi... Jan. 15, 2007 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,774 |
By Jeremy Geelan SOA Web Services Edge East 2006 Conference & Expo and Enterprise Open Source 2006 Conference & Expo, both to be held May 23-25, 2006, announce that their Call for Papers is now open. Topics include all development and management aspects of Web services and Service-Oriented Architecture... Jan. 12, 2007 02:30 PM EST Reads: 9,172 Replies: 2 |
By Jeremy Geelan  When the fast-paced, three-day program of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo in the Santa Clara Convention Center finally ended earlier this month, with over 90 technical sessions and presentations from leading AJAX vendors like Laszlo Systems, JackBe, and Backbase as well as from established... Jan. 12, 2007 10:00 AM EST Reads: 33,866 Replies: 1 |
By Jeremy Geelan Early in 2006 there was a strong sense among industry insiders that AJAX-like approaches were a shoo-in as the new paradigm for fulfilling the software development community's dream of freedom from OS or runtime environment dependent technologies. Was the early optimism borne out by su... Jan. 11, 2007 02:30 PM EST Reads: 40,392 Replies: 3 |
By Jeremy Geelan 2006 will be remembered as the year in which YouTube became culturally ubiquitous and Flash video became the de facto video standard of the Web. As they return to work after the holidays, SYS-CON's network of stakeholders - editors and commentators, columnists and analysts, developers ... Jan. 9, 2007 12:45 AM EST Reads: 24,293 |
By Jeremy Geelan  At the end of each year, when SYS-CON informally polls its globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives, commentators, investors, writers, and editors, our question is always the same: where's the industry going next year? Jan. 1, 2007 12:45 PM EST Reads: 121,860 Replies: 13 |
By Jeremy Geelan 2006 - the year in which YouTube became culturally ubiquitous, Flash video became the de facto video standard of the Web, Microsoft beta-launched Vista, and the Wii entered our lives - was also memorable for one or two other, real-world events such as the hanging of Saddam Hussein, pro... Dec. 30, 2006 11:00 AM EST Reads: 27,882 Replies: 3 |
By Jeremy Geelan On Monday it emerged that Microsoft had applied for two patents covering subscribing and discovering what it refers to as 'Web feeds' - sparking a furore in the blogosphere and elsewhere that Redmond had imperial designs on RSS users. Dec. 28, 2006 07:00 AM EST Reads: 21,173 Replies: 2 |
By Jeremy Geelan  In the age of AJAX, in which JavaScript has emerged as the most broadly available scripting language for Web development, Bruce Tate has been wondering whether its reputation as 'the black sheep of programming languages' isn't perhaps overdue for revision. Dec. 20, 2006 10:15 AM EST Reads: 18,996 Replies: 2 |
By Jeremy Geelan  Digital content is exploding; video on the Web is booming; Web 2.0 is hurtling toward us; and Adobe believes 'engagement' is the one word that best captures its strategy and encapsulates the competitive advantage that its fast-expanding product set gives to the developers and designers... Dec. 19, 2006 01:00 PM EST Reads: 20,460 |
By Jeremy Geelan 'We are in the process of launching a secure P2P streaming technology that allows content owners to bring TV-quality video and ease of use to a TV-sized audience mixed with all the wonders of the Internet,' wrote Henrik Werdelin in November, on the company blog of The Venice Project (T... Dec. 17, 2006 06:30 PM EST Reads: 33,542 Replies: 3 |
By Jeremy Geelan One of Gartner's top 10 predictions for 2007 is that the number of bloggers will level off in the first half of next year at roughly 100 million worldwide. Gartner estimates that there are more than 200M former bloggers who have ceased posting. Dec. 16, 2006 02:15 PM EST Reads: 24,408 Replies: 2 |
By Jeremy Geelan  The British economist E. F. Schumacher used to say, 'I cannot predict the future, but I can have my sail ready.' I recently tried in my own small way to help the international community of i-Technology professionals get their sails ready for 2007 by repeating my now-traditional annual ... Dec. 15, 2006 12:30 PM EST Reads: 15,244 Replies: 2 |
By Jeremy Geelan; Patrick Hynds  In a cross-platform world where software giants nevertheless continue to vie with each other for developer mindshare, it is significant that only one major company has managed to synch up its release numbers with the Web 2.0 phenomenon. Microsoft is not resting on its laurels though, a... Dec. 15, 2006 09:00 AM EST Reads: 17,450 |
By Jeremy Geelan  There will be a dedicated session at the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo on 'Google Web Toolkit' which as of this week became 100% open source. Dec. 13, 2006 10:45 PM EST Reads: 9,463 Replies: 3 |
By Jeremy Geelan  As I write this, the stock price of Google, Inc. just exceeded $500 for the first time in the company's still-brief (two-year) history as a public company. That gives the search colossus a market cap of $150 billion, many times in excess of its physical assets - currently valued at $10... Dec. 13, 2006 12:00 PM EST Reads: 22,468 |
By Jeremy Geelan On any given day, more blogs about i-Technology appear at SYS-CON.con's myriad domains than any other destination site on the Web. Topics range from Java, AJAX, enterprise open source, Web services, SOA, Linux, wireless technologies, XML, .NET, Eclipse, PowerBuilder, Search, Security, ... Dec. 8, 2006 11:00 AM EST Reads: 16,002 |
By Jeremy Geelan As I write this, the stock price of Google, Inc. just exceeded $500 for the first time in the company's still-brief (two-year) history as a public company. That gives Google a market cap of $150 billion, compared to $19.5 billion for Sun. What's the explanation? Nov. 21, 2006 08:45 PM EST Reads: 18,427 Replies: 3 |
By Jeremy Geelan Brad Garlinghouse, author of the 'Peanut Butter Manifesto' to his fellow Yahoo! executives - which made the front page of the Wall Street Journal at the weekend - intended his leaked memo as a call to action for Yahoo! to regain its focus. Nov. 21, 2006 06:30 AM EST Reads: 11,376 Replies: 8 |
By Jeremy Geelan AJAX frameworks - says former Ascential VP of Technology and Product Management Bob Zurek, now with IBM (who acquired Ascential) - currently lack a killer component like the DataWindow. Developers spend way to much time dealing with all the complexities that are easily handled by a com... Nov. 20, 2006 10:15 AM EST Reads: 20,023 Replies: 3 |
By Jeremy Geelan  'Those that say open source software can't be safe for customers - or that commercially indemnified software can't foster community - are merely advancing their own agenda. Without any basis in fact.' That, according to Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz, is why the executive executive from M... Nov. 20, 2006 04:30 AM EST Reads: 16,804 Replies: 3 |
By Jeremy Geelan  'AJAX is not a fad,' according to Andy Lyttle. 'People aren't using AJAX just because it's AJAX. It's not for buzzword-compliance, although it has become a buzzword. It's not for adding useless frills, although it can be used for useless frills. AJAX is a tool to enable web developers ... Nov. 20, 2006 04:00 AM EST Reads: 21,524 Replies: 3 |
By Jeremy Geelan  November 13 marked the 16th birthday of the World Wide Web, according to the definitive timeline published by the W3C itself, which identifies the first web page (no longer extant) as having been located. The occasion has not unsurprisingly unleashed a wave of Web nostalgia, with contr... Nov. 17, 2006 12:15 PM EST Reads: 15,081 Replies: 5 |
By Jeremy Geelan  Based on the fact that the first working draft of the design principles for XML were published on 14 November 1996, XML guru Uche Ogbuji declared this week XML's 10th Birthday. Although the actual W3C Recommendation Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 wasn't published till 10 February... Nov. 17, 2006 05:15 AM EST Reads: 17,213 Replies: 1 |
By Jeremy Geelan  The question that forms the title of this editorial was recently asked by a young observer of the Web 2.0 scene, Skinner Layne, who contends that the key thing to determine about Web 2.0 is whether it is best characterized as a revolution in Web development or as a rebellion against We... Nov. 14, 2006 09:00 AM EST Reads: 19,745 |
By Jeremy Geelan  When a company as Java-centric as Wily Technology launches its first .NET solution, the software development world takes notice. Now as a part of CA, Wily has just GA'd its flagship Introscope tool for .NET, and one of the reasons it has done so is that worldwide .NET adoption among pr... Nov. 12, 2006 02:00 PM EST Reads: 11,284 |
By Jeremy Geelan JotSpot says it will no longer bill customers for the privilege of using the wiki service it previously charged $5-$200 a month to host. Whether JotSpot users will have to use Google IDs like Writely is unclear. Nov. 6, 2006 02:00 AM EST Reads: 18,173 |
By Jeremy Geelan  Once upon a time, Sun and Apple used to have about the same market cap. Today Apple has a market cap of $63BN while Sun's is just $17BN. Ahead of Sun, unbeknownst to many, is Adobe. Its market cap today is $18BN. For a company that in 1998 was worth 'only' $1.7BN it has not been a bad ... Nov. 4, 2006 05:30 PM EST Reads: 20,726 Replies: 2 |
By Jeremy Geelan  At the Real-World AJAX seminar in New York City on March 13, SYS-CON Events had a chance to speak with Jesse James Garrett, the director of user experience strategy and founding partner of Adaptive Path as well as the 'Father of AJAX.' Nov. 2, 2006 02:00 PM EST Reads: 13,300 |
By Jeremy Geelan If the idea of a crafting or collectors club makes you think of dusty community centers and corny newsletters, you're stuck in the wrong century. Today, even small clubs can look professional, run smoothly, and grow membership at the click of a mouse. Nov. 1, 2006 07:00 AM EST Reads: 16,867 |
By Jeremy Geelan When a company as Java-centric as Wily Technology launches its first .NET solution, the software development world takes notice. Platform unification, where .NET Framework-based applications are re-hosted on Java EE, or vice versa, is the new normality. Oct. 29, 2006 12:45 PM EST Reads: 11,276 |
By Jeremy Geelan There's always an inherent danger, for any company getting behind a meta-theme like 'revolutionizing how the world engages with ideas and information anytime, anywhere and through any medium,' that it has defined a wish rather than a reality. The thousands of developers assembled in ... Oct. 25, 2006 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 25,071 Replies: 2 |
By Jeremy Geelan Might a phenomenon as young as the Internet have already moved into its second era? Is Web 2.0 more of a rebellion, a corrective to Web 1.0 - or is it a genuine revolution? Oct. 21, 2006 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 19,365 Replies: 8 |
By Jeremy Geelan  The winds of change in the Web world have reached hurricane force right now, and nowhere are they blowing more fiercely than around that epicenter of weather activity that's been labeled 'Web 2.0.' There, a perfect storm is brewing. Oct. 20, 2006 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 16,095 |
By Jeremy Geelan  Now that the web is well on its way to becoming more responsive, smoother and reliable - and correspondingly more enjoyable to work with - AJAXWorld Magazine stops up and tries to 'freeze-frame' the moment. We take a look at the question that is presently on the mind of hundreds and th... Oct. 18, 2006 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 39,653 Replies: 10 |
By Jeremy Geelan  Whether anyone arriving at 8:30AM this morning to attend Dion Hinchcliffe's inaugural 'AJAX University Bootcamp' at AJAXWorld 2006 realized that just nine hours later they'd be talking intelligently about using geocoding in image tags to build an application 'mashup' of the Dojo Google... Oct. 18, 2006 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 21,174 |
By Jeremy Geelan No company on earth had more speakers on the inaugural AJAXWorld speaker faculty than Sun, including Greg Murray -- Servlet 2.5 Specification Lead, now the AJAX architect for Sun. Greg personally spent several weeks preparing for that OpenAjax Alliance membership meeting at Sun's Santa... Oct. 10, 2006 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 37,895 Replies: 2 |
By Jeremy Geelan  'There is a misconception that social networking is the exclusive domain of teenagers, but this analysis confirms that the appeal of social networking sites is far broader,' says a report this week by the Internet research firm comScore Media Metrix. For example, 40% of MySpace visitor... Oct. 9, 2006 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 31,133 Replies: 3 |
By Jeremy Geelan In a move that will almost certainly resolve once and for all the continuing uncertainty in the world's press as to whether the phenomenon at the center of last week's high-energy event at the Santa Clara Convention Center should be spelt 'AJAX' or 'Ajax,' SYS-CON Media is taking the i... Oct. 7, 2006 06:45 PM EDT Reads: 14,804 Replies: 3 |
By Jeremy Geelan  How about if we spelt AJAX differently, asked Håkon Wium Lie, at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, so that the fundamental role played by CSS was incorporated and immortalized? Oct. 4, 2006 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 10,806 |
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