I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having
said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning? "Because
they can only give you answers."
Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would
share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application
pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered.
From that readers can themselves infer where AJAX is headed.
What are the top questions to ask next about AJAX?
Eric Miraglia of Yahoo!
1. (From March'08) How do I calculate the ROI of building my RIA on the
iPhone SDK vs using AJAX?
2. How do I assess the performance of my app and decide what to do next to
make it faster?
3. When it comes to accessibility, how do I know what's required of me for
my rich web apps? Beyond what's required, what makes good business se... (more)
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?
Every time, the answers are surprisingly different from the year before, and
of course throw light not just on where the industry is going but also how
it's going to get there, why, because of who, within what kind of time-scale
- all that good stuff.
Enjoy!
Ruby on Rails . JRuby . AJAX . Rules-Based Programming
JASON BELL
Enterprise Developer, Editorial Board Member, Java Developer's Journal
My predictions for 2007....
1. Incremental mainstream adoption of Ruby on Rails
It's going to happen, isn't it? Keep an eye out for Sun's offering of JRuby.
Whether this is the death of other open source scripting languages like
Groovy rem... (more)
2007 was undoubtedly the year of Social Networking, but what of 2008? Will
'08 be the year of "Unified Communications" or the year when CMS comes to
stand for "Community Management System" - or even "Collaboration Management
System"? Or will it be the year of a giga-merger, to beat the mere
mega-mergers of 2007?
As usual at the end of each year, SYS-CON has been informally polling its
globe-girdling network of software developers, industry executives,
commentators, investors, writers, and editors. As always, the range and depth
of their answers is fascinating, throwing light not just on where the
industry is going but also how it's going to get there, why, because of who,
within what kind of time-scale.
Enjoy!
RIAs versus AJAX . Ruby on Rails . PHP . Facebook Competitors
TIM BRAY
Director of Web Technologies, Sun
Tim Bray managed the Oxford English Dictionary projec... (more)
Live Webcasts of four sponsor sessions from the New York "Real-World AJAX"
event are now available at the conference Website.
These Webcasts which are now available online are Sahil Malik's (telerik)
"How to Take Desktop Applications to the Web" session, Christophe Coenraets'
(Adobe) "Extending AJAX with Adobe Flex" session, Jouk Pleiter's (Backbase)
"AJAX Best Practices" session, and Kevin Hakman's (TIBCO) "The Four Quantum
States of AJAX" session.
The 12-hour event with its entire 11 sessions is also available as an
on-demand product, in an easy to navigate DVD for all delegates of
"Real-World AJAX" and "AJAXWorld Conference & Expo."
The first Real-World AJAX event took place on Monday, March 13, 2006 in New
York City featuring 15 speakers in 11 sessions, including the world’s
most renowned AJAX experts. Seminar attendees also got a chance to hear from
leading... (more)
In the tight economy, front-end engineers and front-end engineering can play
a conspicuous role: good user experience, as the iPhone spectacularly
demonstrates, means good business.
At the 7th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo which opened Monday
in New York City, the speaker lineup is as usual dripping with real-world
expertise. The distinguished Speaker Faculty is headlined by Oracle's Ashish
Mohindroo, whose Opening Keynote on "Breaking the Collaboration Barrier with
Rich Enterprise Applications" set the tone for two intense days of breakout
sessions across three parallel tracks.
According to Mohindroo and Oracle, Rich Enterprise Applications (REAs)
promise breakthrough capabilities and services for achieving higher levels of
personal and team productivity throughout your enterprise.
"Consumer web and mobile technologies are setting high standards for wha... (more)
Prior to the year 2000, business was a world in love with office spaces and
corporate travel. We traveled to work (the office) every day. We traveled
away from the office for customer meetings, for internal meetings, for
conferences, for awards ceremonies. We traveled because we could and we
believed that it was necessary for the competitive advantage. That all
changed rather quickly with the economic downturn of the early 2000s and, of
course, 9/11. In short order, we relearned how to do business by staying put.
Another consequence of the most recent recession was corporate payroll
compression. As good corporate citizens who are mindful of keeping our jobs,
most of us were tasked with far more work than a single individual could
perform adequately. To help make us more efficient, we introduced cell phones
so that we could make calls while traveling, and WiFi-enabled... (more)
Application virtualization is a technologically elegant solution that
isolates applications and reduces conflicts. That’s good for IT management
and has the additional virtue of being financially alluring. From legacy to
enterprise business applications, virtualized deployment eased management and
supported secure access. Companies saved money and boosted efficiency using
application virtualization within IT infrastructures. Attendees learned
details of how, when and why application virtualization was a best practice
for enterprise IT. This talk covered the fundamentals of application
virtualization and technical issues from terminal server to desktop. Using
case instances to illustrate benefits in various architectures, the
discussion included scenarios that detail migration and IT architectural
shifts incorporating application virtualization.
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Speaker... (more)
When a San Francisco web development company was on February 14 assigned a
US patent covering the use of rich-media applications on the Internet, it was
always going to be only a matter of time before the self-same Internet
exploded with concern and astonishment.
The company in question is Balthaser Online, Inc. of Lafayette, CA, and the
patent in question is US 7,000,180 - a patent for "Methods, systems, and
processes for the design and creation of rich-media applications via the
internet."
The astonishment in question is near-universal. But first let me just back up
and recount the facts.
Neil Balthaser, a San Francisco resident, filed his application for this
patent on February 9, 2001 (Application No. 9/779,831) as a continuation in
part of application No. 09/716460, filed on Nov. 21, 2000, which he
abandoned.
The abstract, publicly available at the USPTO, summari... (more)
This article originally appeard in Java Developer's Journal on October 10,
2005
Which platform to use Java or .NET? Developers ask this question all the
time. Java has been widely adopted because of its overwhelming benefits on
the server side, but Java has less to offer on the client side. .NET has made
inroads into the enterprise by leveraging its stronger rich-client
capabilities. An alternative solution for enterprise-scale Internet
application development is the emerging XML-based rich-client technology.
.NET Erosion from the Client Side
There are good reasons why Java is the platform of choice for server-side
computing. J2EE is an open standards-based platform that enables open
integration. Java enjoys broad industry support, including vendors like IBM,
Sun, and Oracle, as well as upstarts like Nexaweb and Sonic Software. J2EE is
cross-platform, giving custome... (more)
Early Bird Savings Cloud Expo
Cloud computing is a game changer. The cloud is disrupting traditional
software and hardware business models by disrupting how IT service gets
delivered. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound as this classic disruptive
technology begins to proliferate, so it is no surprise that SYS-CON's
industry-leading International Cloud Expo is going from strength to strength.
The 5th International Cloud Expo, to be held April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob
Javits Convention Center in New York, NY, announces that its Call for Papers
is fast approaching.
Topics on which submission are welcome include all aspects of providing or
using massively scalable IT-related capabilities as a service using Internet
technologies (see suggested examples below).
Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is The
Cloud: submit your speaking propos... (more)
[This prescient article first appeared on SYS-CON.com nearly 12 months ago.]
We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and many
enterprise development managers are facing the dilemma - which way to go -
remain with tried and true Java or .Net technologies or less known yet
AJAX, Flex, OpenLaszlo or a number of other vendors. This article is an
attempt to give a brief overview of what's out there on the RIA market.
Historically there have been major shifts in the software industry. We moved
from mainframes with dumb terminals to client/server. Users gained in
convenience and productivity, and mainframe systems were patronizingly
labeled as legacy. With the availability of the World Wide Web industry
visionaries turned the tables: vendors and corporate IT had been eager to get
rid of the complexity of client/server version management and technologist... (more)
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