Ars Technica posted an article today regarding Web 2.0 funding and making it a successful business model. There is a huge discrepancy between investments and those that turn into Web 2.0 companies. Read the rest of this entry »

According to CNET News.com corporations are still slow adopters of Web 2.0 as compared to consumers. Most of the companies are using technologies in small scale projects. It used to be that consumers were behind corporations in the form of cutting edge technologies in the computer industry. Read the rest of this entry »

Techcrunch has a post regarding the new beta version of Blogger.com. It looks like it’s upgrades some JavaScript with Google style making it easier for people to blog on their platform. I personally use my own blogging software or setup blogs for people on Wordpress or Typepad, but I know a lot of people that just want a basic blog and Blogger is a good choice for them. Read the rest of this entry »

For a while I have been using the program Navicat to control MySQL databases and I still use it and will continue to use it. It does a great job and it is really easy to use. The price seems reasonable to me for the features it offers so I can’t really complain. Since I had been working with a lot of AJAX applications and noticed a lot of desktop applications being converted to web applications. Read the rest of this entry »

There was a post on Adomas Paltanavicius website giving a tutorial about mouse wheel programming in JavaScript. It is a pretty clever idea and doing more and more AJAX-like applications I can see this tutorial becoming more and more useful. At this time I never really thought about implementing code for the mouse wheel but in upcoming projects I think I will find this tutorial very helpful. Read the rest of this entry »

CNET News.com had on article on their site a couple of days ago regarding a company called Spiceworks using Google ads to finance their business. The company creates a software program that installs on the business computers and gives an inventory on what is on the company network. Pretty simple, but seems like a pretty good idea. Read the rest of this entry »

The Vitamin has an article on the importance of maintainable JavaScript. Since I have been doing more and more AJAX web applications for clients this has becoming such an important point especially as web applications become larger and larger and more dependent on JavaScript to create its function. Read the rest of this entry »

There was a post on the ZDNet blog about Google spreadsheets possibly getting a chart function. This would be a big step for web applications and push it more towards becoming a replacement for a desktop application. Read the rest of this entry »

DHTML Goodies has a post on their site including code for a folder tree with drag and drop capabilities. It is actually a pretty creative script and works very well. It also has a demo and tutorial to implement it into your own site. Read the rest of this entry »

There was an article on James McParlane’s blog last week regarding AJAX and its load on servers. If AJAX is done correctly it can easily reduce file size transfers reducing the amount of bandwidth needed to run the web application. The opposite is true as well in that if a developer creates a poorly executed AJAX application the could bring a server down to its knees. Read the rest of this entry »