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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
I am excited to announce the early beta release of Razor Optimizer, a JavaScript optimization tool for reducing code footprint and increasing runtime performnace. As a cross-browser web application itself, Razor Optimizer can be access either online as a service, or to be downloaded to run locally. ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Yahoo’s Performance team summarized their experience in web performance optimization into 14 rules in general (Reference 4, http://stevesouders.com/examples/rules.php):
1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
2. Use a Content Delivery Network
3. Add an Expires Header
4. Gzip Components
5. Put Stylesheets at the Top
6. Put Scripts at the Bottom
7. Avoid CSS Expressions
8. Make JavaScript and CSS External
9. Reduce DNS Lookups
10. Minify JavaScript
11. Avoid Redirects
12. Remove Duplicate Scripts
13. Configure ETags
14. Make ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Razor Profiler
(beta), an online Ajax profiling tool, is available for public review now at http://www.razorspeed.com.
What Is it?
Razor Profiler(beta) is a web-based Ajax profiling tool to help web developers understand and analyze the runtime behavior ...
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
If the visual editor (TinyMCE) in your newly installed Wordpress is not showing up, this maybe a solution to your problem.
First, Make Sure your visual editor is turned on. In the Wordpress admin, up in the upper right corner, click on your user name, and then make sure “Use ...
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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, March 11th, 2008
The “Same Origin Policy” is at the core of browser’s security model. Under the “Same Origin Policy”, a web resource can only interact with another web resource if and only if both resources are from the same origin. However, “Cross site scripting” and “cookie” both brings security challenges in ...
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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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Monday, September 17th, 2007
My company, Nexaweb, together with SitePen, Mozilla Foundation, Redfin, etc, joined force in making an important contribution to the open source community. See SitePen, Mozilla
Foundation, Nexaweb Technologies, Redfin, & SnapLogic Announce Open Source
Contribution of TurboAjax Group’s High-Performance Grid Widget to Dojo
Foundation.
This is interesting not only because it bridges a ...
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Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Adobe sent out a press release this morning titled "Adobe to Open Source Flex ". Is that so? Dana Blankenhorn from ZDNet says this is A sign of desperation from Adobe ...Is that so?
After reading the press release a few times, the title "to Open Source Flex" seems to ...
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Sunday, April 15th, 2007
In my previous post, “Web 2.0 Re-examined: the Paradigm Shift, Technology Stack and Business Value “, I described a “Web 2.0 Technology Stack ” that contains three building blocks: Application Client Container, Internet Messaging Bus and Enterprise Mashup Server. In this post, I’ll explain more in detail of what an ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Introduction
Ajax is flying high and Ajax toolkits are certainly of big help. However, I do hear from people in the community complain about the size of various Ajax toolkits. A lot of Ajax toolkits require hundreds of kilobytes of download, sometime even over megabytes. Dylan Schiemann from Dojo ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
I am not as familiar with west coast VCs and have not run into Peter Rip, a general partner at Crosslink Capital. In general, looking at his blog EarlyStageVC, Peter is quite well informed and intelligent – which is why I was highly surprised to see a post from him ...
Posted in software business model, web 2.0 | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Bob Buffone sent out this annoucement to Apache mailing list related to XAP:
The Apache XAP Team (XAP is an open source Ajax project at Apache Incubator) is pleased to announce the release of the 0.3.0 of its Declarative Ajax toolkit. Downloads of the project can be found at http://incubator.apache.org/xap/download.html
Project ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
The tech IPO market goes in cycles, just like how spring is followed by summer, autumn and winter and then returns in a year again. A well respected VC shared with me some of his studies on the cyclic nature of the IPO market – one of the key conclusions ...
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
At AjaxWorld Conference and OpenAjax Alliance back to back meetings in Santa Clara, CA this week, it has been hard not to think about the developer community and how Web 2.0 is impacting it today.
Web development can be roughly divided into two camps:
Web site development;
Web application development;
"Web site development" is ...
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