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Social Expeditions Looking for CTO

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

My friends at Social Expeditions are looking for a CTO. Below is what they are looking for: Social Expeditions is a company behind blockbusters on Facebook and MySpace. Millions use our products. We are profitable. This is no coincidence because we are obsessed with our customers. While many features ...

Razor Optimizer, a New Approach for Ajax Optimization

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. ...

Ajax-heavy Applications on Google Chrome

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

"This is the best browser so far" is that I can say after being a Chrome user for one day.  First of all, I was glad to find out that I haven't found Chrome breaking any web application yet, especially Ajax applications. I was a little concerned about this, given that ...

The 64KB Java Language Problem - Lesson Learned from Using Rhino to Process JavaScript

Monday, September 1st, 2008

This entry documents a few tips related to using Rhino JavaScript Engine to process JavaScript code. If you are using Rhino, you probably won't run into the issues covered in this post during development or even testing. However, you are fairly likely to run into these issues after your system ...

OpenAjax Publishes Future Browser Feature Wish List Results

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

What does the Ajax community want from future browsers? How are these different requests prioritized? Web developers have done amazing things with Ajax for both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applications, but what barriers need to be removed to enable the next generation of browser-based innovations? The future of Ajax ...

OpenAjax F2F Meeting at NYC

Monday, March 24th, 2008

The F2F meeting of OpenAjax Alliance at NYC on March 21st worked out really well in my oppinion. As a result of the last F2F meeting in October 2007, we formed a new task force called "Runtime Advocacy Task Force" at OpenAjax. The goal of Runtime Task Force is to collect ...

Low Level Ajax Coding GotCha

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

People say Ajax is hard...and this may be why. I spent some time playing with Bob Buffone's newest work on Ajax over the last few days. Bob built an xModify processor that runs on either jQuery, Dojo or Mootools. The xModify processor is powerful but quite lightweight (10KB without gzip). There ...

OpenAjax Hub 1.0 and InteropFest

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

OpenAjax Alliance has made substantial progress in the last 12 months since its inception. The cornerstone is OpenAjaxHub 1.0 (OaaHub 1.0). OaaHub 1.0, an open source project under Apache V2 license, focuses on interoperability - it enables different Ajax components to inter-operate with each other using a "pub/sub" mechanism while ...

Dojo Grid and Open Source Community Contribution

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 ...

Dojo Footprint and Ajax Performance Recommendation

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 ...