Posts Tagged ‘AJAX’
Web Services Increasingly Under Attack
June 28th, 2006
More and more people are turning toward web applications and what this means naturally is more people vulnerable to cyber criminals. Large applications with many users have to be particularly careful with security in the web applications. I’m not saying every web application shouldn?t take careful consideration to security but those dealing with a lot of personal information have to be particularly careful. Yahoo News had an article on this particular subject.
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JBoss Seam Kits AJAX and Java Together
June 20th, 2006
Builder.com has an article about JBoss’s recent project typing AJAX and Java together. Their open source framework is called Seam. Google has a similar AJAX toolkit for Java programmers as well.
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Now, Free Ways to Do Desktop Work on the Web
June 19th, 2006
The New York Times had an article about AJAX web applications on the web to use in place of desktop applications. The article says computer hardware has reached a point where its very inexpensive to pick up a pretty good system. The software however ends up costing even more than the hardware. Google has bought Writely a web based word processor and also released a preview of its spreadsheet software.
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Microsoft AJAX Framework Forges Ahead
June 19th, 2006
Last week, there was an article on Computerworld stating that Microsoft is still working on its Atlas framework for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). The Atlas framework is said to not displace the JavaScript technology with its own Microsoft technology.
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Google Picasa Web Albums
June 17th, 2006
Google has had their Picasa desktop application for Windows for a while now. I used it a little bit, but since I primarily use my Macs to handle photos I use iPhoto. Google Picasa Web Albums was recently released and it since its in a web browser it works across platforms. It seems like a pretty cool tool but I think the new Yahoo beta will end up being better.
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AJAX Edit in Place With Prototype
June 13th, 2006
A lot of clients have been requesting edit in place editing for their Web 2.0 applications. It’s a simple but very useful feature. It makes editing documents on the web a lot faster than the traditional point and click. Now there are many ways to tackle the problem but there is some pretty good documentation on Joseph Scott’s blog. Now I wouldn’t say this is a perfect solution, no solution really is, but it does work and get the job done. I’m sure over time this code will evolve as all coding usually does.
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Google Spreadsheets Sneak Peek
June 12th, 2006
Google has released a test version of their Google Spreadsheet software. You can sign up to be on the list to try out the new software. Like GMail it’s a web baased application using AJAX as its key method for transportation. This is another Web 2.0 example and another transition from desktop applications to web applications. Now I don’t think all desktop applications will be replaced by web applications anytime soon, there is definitely a strong push to develop the ones that are possible at this time.
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Six Apart Launches Vox Preview
June 4th, 2006
Six Apart, the creator of the popular blog software applications TypePad, MovableType, and Live Journal, has released a public preview of a new software package called Vox. Vox is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) blogging application with Web 2.0 style. It makes it quite easy for users to have customized blogs. The concept behind it is to allow those who aren’t necessarily technically savvy to be able to blog like those who are.
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The Network Unbound
May 30th, 2006
FastCompany has an article about TagWorld and other next-generation social networks. I guess it seems like everyone is trying to capture some of the popularity created by MySpace. The article hopes to show how companies and individuals are changing the way they communicate in order to create more efficient business.
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Yahoo! Photos Beta
May 29th, 2006
Demo.com has a pretty cool video demonstrating the next revision to Yahoo! Photos. There aren’t too many products out there that impress me right off the bat, but I have to say from watching this video, I’m very impressed with the improvements made in the new Beta. By utilizing the Web 2.0 concept in the latest version, Yahoo is able to utilize AJAX and create their online photo album program seem like a desktop application.
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