Archive for May, 2006

OpenAjax

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

The mission of OpenAjax Alliance is to advance adoption of Ajax technologies. This is accomplished by: Preserving the mutli-browser and multip-platform value proposition of the web Leveraging  open standards and open source to increase overall interoperabilty of Ajax based solutions Decreasing the rsik and total cost to adopter of delivering compelling user experiences. OpenAjax ...

Declarative Ajax and The next stage of Ajax

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Ajax has certainly caught the attention of everyone. Signficant amount of progress has been made in the last 10 to 12 months. As of today, there are probably over 100 Ajax toolkits/frameworks (some are open source, some are close source). On the one side, it is truely amazing and exciting ...

RIA Solutions and The Converging RIA Programming Model (Article 3)

Friday, May 5th, 2006

This is the third post of Enterprise Rich Internet Application Series. RIA Solutions Today There are many RIA solutions available today. Each of them fits into one of the approaches mentioned above. Some of the solutions come with tooling that can simplify development and maintenance. The following table shows a list ...

Happy for Lihu and Ten New Wonders…

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

I have always suspected Li Hu is going to become one of the best architects (no, i mean architect for real, not software architect). I guess the way i said it here would probably be an insult to him - he would say " you suspected? Isn't it obvious that you ...

Grade "C" for web applications (In other words, the web sucks!)

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

(This was written in early 2004 and published here the first time).   For a long time, I couldn’t stop thinking how my professor would grade these web-based applications deployed by many companies today. My guess is an “C” for almost every one of them.   A few years ago when I was a ...