Archive for August, 2007

Sun Changes Ticker to JAVA

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

This is going to be a very short blog because the story itself is too good to add any comments: Sun Microsystems changes ticker to JAVA On August 23, 2007, "Sun announced Thursday that it would retire its SUNW moniker on Nasdaq and replace with JAVA effective Monday. The software known ...

Dojo 0.9 Released

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Congratulations to the Dojo team in getting 0.9 out! It is something that I have been looking for. Alex Russell showed me some significant improvements comparing to Dojo 0.4 a while ago (much smaller footprint, 10X performance improvement, etc). Now these guys have delivered it! See the release note for ...

Is W3C’s Widget Work Going The Wrong Way?

Friday, August 10th, 2007

I have been involved with W3C's Web Application Format (WAF) Working Group(WG). WAF has been working on "widget" for about one year. Marcos Caceres, a smart recent PhD graduate from Australia, has been doing some good work here. A year ago, I was neutral about WAF's widget effort, even supportive primarily ...