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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Recent Articles and Publications
C. Wei: "The Business Value of Web 2.0 for Enterprises", Web 2.0 Journal, 23 Feb 2007 (this article also appeared on Enterprise Open Source Magazine and Java Developer Journal);
C. Wei, R. Gonda: "Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Some Classic Examples", Web 2.0 Journal, 23 Feb 2007 (this article ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Here is a question that I have been pondering on and off for quite a while: Why do "cool kids" choose Ruby or PHP to build websites instead of Java?
I have to admit that I do not have an answer.
Why do I even care? Because I am a Java developer. ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Today is the fourth annual MIT CIO Symposium. The weather could have been better and parking could have been much better (my house is within 25 minutes walking distance from MIT. I drove instead and spent 30 minutes looking for parking) - but the conference is fairly well attended. My ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Quite a few people are asking me what I think of Sun's JavaFX annoucement . It is funny and we saw this coming - Who wouldn't anticipate Sun to make some big annoucement at JavaOne ? People were predicting the annoucement is going to be "open sourcing Java" - Oh, ...
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Monday, December 11th, 2006
The Ajax wildfire makes many people constantly think about what impact it has on other technologies such as Java, Flash and .NET. Are application developers going to switch from other technologies to Ajax? I explored this subject with regard to Flash in my earlier post
The Converging Developer Community - AJAX ...
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Monday, October 30th, 2006
Back four years ago (2002), a good friend who works at Microsoft told me confidentially that Microsoft is working on something called "XAML". "Very similar to Nexaweb - watch out", he said. To the contrary, I was actually thrilled. Regardless of what it means from a competitive perspective, XAML validates ...
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Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
There are some fairly big issues with Ajax and I am puzzled. I think the Ajax community need to pay more attention here in order for Ajax to be really adopted.
Before i get into the negatives about Ajax, let me clarify my position about Ajax first.
Yes, there are ...
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Sunday, June 11th, 2006
The conventional wisdom is that Sun is the only company who doesn't know how to make money from Java. Depsite being the inventor of Java and the host of JavaOne annually, the companies who make money from Java are IBM, Oracle and BEA, etc. Though Jonathan Schwarts claims that "I ...
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Thursday, June 30th, 2005
JavaOne 2005 is exciting. JavaOne is10 years old, and look what impact it created. Some photoes:
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