IRVINE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 02/11/14 -- Toshiba America Information
Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division (Toshiba
-www.telecom.toshiba.com) today announced that its Call Manager Mobile
unified communications mobility solution for VIPedge has been named a
winner of a 2014 CUSTOMER Product of the Year Award by TMC, a global,
integrated media company. The 16th Annual Product of the Year Award winners
list appears in the January/February 2014 issue of CUSTOMER magazine:
http://customer.tmcnet.com/.
"We are honored to receive the 2014 CUSTOMER Product of the Year Award for
our Call Manager Mobile unified communications mobility solution for
VIPedge," said Brian Metherell, vice president and general manager of Toshiba
America Information Systems Inc., Telecommunication Systems Division.
"Toshiba has designed its Call Manager Mobile for today's BYOD world... (more)
I am sure that most of you have heard about or have had a chance to use
Google Maps. It's a great service and I was really impressed by the
responsiveness of the application and the ease with which users could drag
and zoom maps from a Web browser. It has in many ways heralded the arrival of
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), which I am sure will revitalize Web
development in the days to come.
What makes the service even better is the availability of the Google Maps API
(Application Programming Interface) as a free Beta service. The API allows
developers to embed Google Maps in their custom applications. It also allows
them to overlay information on the map and customize the map to their needs.
As I write this article there are quite a few sites that utilize Google Maps,
and more and more of them are appearing by the day.
The API by itself is pretty straightfor... (more)
These days everyone is talking about AJAX. It’s supposed to be a cool way
of creating Web applications.
The idea is noble: instead of rendering an entire HTML page on each little
change on the page, it’s much better to send an asynchronous request that
will get the data for you and refresh only the relevant portion of the
screen. Every author writing on AJAX is giving the same (the only? ) example
where this technology is being used: Google maps and email. (BTW, I’m a
little sick of these examples). Since I’m not going to be helping Google in
improving their maps, I’d like to see some real-world examples
implementing this technology. Ajax proponents will immediately come with
this exciting example of how great it is to refresh some screen info as the
user enters character in a text field. And here's a sample conversation
that might have happened between an imag... (more)
The editors of SYS-CON Media's Java Developer's Journal are in a unique
position when it comes to Java development. All are active coders in their
"day jobs," and they have the good fortune in getting a heads-up on many of
the latest and greatest software releases. They were asked to nominate three
products from the last 12 months that they felt had not only made a major
impact on their own development, but also on the Java community as a whole.
The following is a list of each editor's selections and the reason why they
chose that product.
Joe Winchester
Desktop Java Editor
SwingLabs
SwingLabs is an open source laboratory for exploring new ways to make Swing
applications easier to write, with improved performance and greater visual
appeal. It is an umbrella project for various open source initiatives
sponsored by Sun Microsystems and is part of the java.net community... (more)
Keeping up with the latest Web technologies is tough nowadays. Every week it
seems new sites are launched that push the envelope further and further in
terms of what can be accomplished using just a Web browser.
The rise of AJAX over the past several months has taken over the development
world and breathed new life into the Web. Although these techniques have been
possible for many years now, the maturity of Web standards like XHTML and CSS
now make it a viable alternative that will be viewable by all but the oldest
browsers.
It's also been possible to accomplish many of the same things using Flex or
Flash, but the development cycle with those applications is typically more
involved and the overhead often not justified.
We're going to harness the power of the Scipt.aculo.us JavaScript library to
provide our interaction. As their Web site states, this library "provide... (more)
Cloud Expo Early Bird Savings
A robust ecosystem of solutions providers is emerging around cloud computing.
Here, SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Journal expands its list of most active
players in the fast-emerging Cloud Ecosystem, from the 'mere' 100 we
identified back in January of this year, to half as many again - testimony,
if any further were needed, to the fierce and continuing growth of the
"Elastic IT" paradigm throughout the world of enterprise computing.
Editorial note: The words in quotation marks used to describe the various
services and solutions in this round-up are in every case taken from the Web
sites cited. As ever we encourage software engineers, developers, IT
operations managers, and new/growing companies in every case to "suck it and
see" by downloading or otherwise sampling the offering in question for
themselves.
(Omissions to this Top 150 list sh... (more)
I wonder how many people, as I did, found themselves thrown into confusion by
the death last week of Jean Ichbiah (pictured), inventor of Ada.
Learning that the inventor of a computer programming language is already old
enough to have lived 66 years (Ichbiah was 66 when he succumbed to brain
cancer) is a little like learning that your 11-year-old daughter has grown up
and left home or that the first car you ever bought no longer is legal
because it runs on gasoline in an age where all automobiles must run on
water. How can something as novel, as new, as a computing language possibly
already be so old-fangled that an early practitioner like Ichbiah can
already no longer be with us?
The thought was so disquieting that it took me immediately back to the last
time I wrote about Ichbiah, and indeed about Ada Lovelace for whom his
language was named. It was in the context ... (more)
(October 7, 2005) - AJAX isn't a technology, or a language, and there's no
recipe to implement it; it's just a combination of various components to
achieve something you otherwise couldn't: asynchronous http requests.
However, since early 2005, when Google and Flickr popularized the concept,
its use has grown rapidly.
The name AJAX is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It uses the
JavaScript XMLHttpRequest function to create a tunnel from the client's
browser to the server and transmit information back and forth without having
to refresh the page. The data travels in XML format because it transmits
complex data types over clear text.
AJAX uses XHTML for the data presentation of the view layer, DOM, short for
Document Object Model, which dynamically manipulates the presentation, XML
for data exchange, and XMLHttpRequest as the exchange engine that ties
every... (more)
A typical Java developer knows that when you need to develop a GUI for a Java
application, Swing is the tool. Eclipse SWT also has a number of followers,
but the majority of people use Java Swing. For the past 10 years, it was a
given that Swing development wouldn't be easy; you have to master working
with the event-dispatch thread, GridBaglayout, and the like. Recently, the
NetBeans team created a nice GUI designer called Matisse, which was also
ported to MyEclipse. Prior to Matisse, JBuilder had the best Swing designer,
but it was too expensive. Now a good designer comes with NetBeans for free.
Why even consider Flex for developing Rich Internet Applications (RIA)?
First, we'll give the short answer. Just look at the code in Listing 1. This
code compiles and runs in the Flash player and produces the output shown in
Figure 1. Yes, it's a tree control with several no... (more)
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)
In the past few months, the design pattern of combining Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML (AJAX) to develop highly interactive Web applications has
been growing in popularity. High-profile Web applications such as Google Maps
and A9 are currently leveraging the combination of these technologies to
produce rich client-side user experiences. The individual technologies that
compose AJAX are not recent developments; they have been around for some time
and have been continuously updated and improved. However, it is the recent
confluence of these technologies that is leading to interesting
possibilities.
I have three goals in this article. First, I want to provide a high-level
overview of AJAX-style applications. My second goal is to provide a detailed
description of asynchronous callback features of ASP.NET 2.0. Finally, I want
to provide an insight into upcoming enhance... (more)
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