August 2007


31 Aug 2007 12:55 pm

Yesterday, myself and Stefan Andreasen (Kapow Technologies CTO) did a webinar on Enterprise Mashups. Feedback was extremely positive, I completely agree, Nexaweb and Kapow offer Enterprises the abilty to build mashups – Faster – Better – Cheaper. I am a big fan of Kapow and what they offer, users of the technology can create XML feeds from any website whether or not the site publishes one. Can’t tell you everything they do in a sentence so go check them out, Click Image:

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27 Aug 2007 07:32 pm

Everytime I hear Adobe speak about Flash and Flex they show charts showing how universal the Flash platform is and how quickly everyone jumps to new versions because of how easy it is to upgrade. That is wonderful as a concept in slideware but in the real world everything isn’t so easy. Today, I went to TechCrunch and saw a new online photo editor that sounded interesting. Being that I am a sucker for new applications, I went to give it a try.

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21 Aug 2007 08:11 pm

Today, I gave a Webinar on vendor neutral look at how to develop RIA applications. Having worked at Nexaweb for 5 years, I have seen lots of RIA platforms come and go then come back again. Many of the ones that didn’t make it all had similar problems; they tried to re-invent the wheel. Either they created their own scripting language, were ActiveX (Not Flash) based or weren’t easily extendable.

Over the last two years it seems that a new Ajax framework is created every 7.5 minutes. Each framework typically falls into one of four categories:

Server-side

  • Declarative – JSF and all component extensions
  • Component Model – Echo2, Canoo, Wicket

Client-side

  • Declarative – Nexaweb, Flex, Backbase, Tibco GI
  • Component Model – Swing, AWT, SWT, .NET, Some Ajax Open Source frameworks

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