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Ulitzer Named "Content Sponsor" of AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

News - 2 hours 49 minutes ago

Ulitzer.com which initially made the headlines with its “job descriptions from the future,” announced today that it will launch its Ulitzer “beta” site with 6,500 authors and close to 1 million original articles, published in more than 5,000 topic-specific online journals. Each journal offers up to read more

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Moving the Web Forward Toward the Web Experience Revolution

News - 8 hours ago

Another few months of AJAX, and another set of leaps of bounds in the Rich Internet Applications world. It's no wonder that the rise and rise of enterprise RIAs has led to the most buoyant, highest-octane AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo yet! Just as you can tell someone by the company they keep, so read more

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Designing, Developing & Building Rich E-mail Apps

News - 8 hours ago

The first e-mail message was sent over 40 years ago and e-mail is the dominant form of electronic communication today, containing a unique data repository with rich context about people’s lives. Given the mass acceptance and potential value of e-mail, it’s worth considering what apps can be built o read more

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Creating On-Demand Enterprise Applications for the iPhone

News - 8 hours ago

The arrival of the iPhone has heralded a new era for Internet-enabled devices; however, the device wasn't designed with the enterprise user in mind. To be successful, enterprise apps need to be optimized for the user experience and fit business requirements. In this session, Dave Carroll will demon read more

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Cloud Computing: It's Real and It's Changing How We in the Software World Work

News - 8 hours ago

Cloud computing is real. Cloud computing is changing how we in the software world work. But it is not everything to everyone and it is definitely not the second coming that will change how we all interact on the Internet. While I respect Stephen Fry hugely, I find myself a little disappointed that read more

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Ten Rich Internet Applications Perfect for Web Designers

News - 8 hours ago

Adobe AIR - a cross-platform runtime environment for rich Internet and desktop applications - is just starting to get popular outside of the early-adopter circles, but there’s already a growing amount of tools and utilities that can help web designers with various design-related and managerial task read more

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js.io: client library for networking

Blogs - 14 hours ago

Michael Carter et al have been working on js.io, a client library that gives you networking, including Comet like support, via JavaScript.
The low level work can sit upon Comet APIs, and in the future, Web Sockets, and you get high level APIs to protocols such as:

amqp
imap
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Ajaxified Body; When to refresh the page

Blogs - 14 hours ago

Matt Raible has posted on the Ajaxified Body pattern, that loads content into the main area instead of reloading an entire page.
The surrounding template stays put, and the red area changes when you have an action:

This is an old question: “When should you just reload the page read more

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SMIL 3.0 Reaches Proposed Recommendation

Blogs - 14 hours ago

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (or SMIL) 3.0 has now become a proposed recommendation at the W3C. SMIL hasn’t been widely used, but some of it is widely supported thanks to ACID tests that had the browser vendors put it in.
3.0 has the following goals:

Define an read more

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AJAX World RIA Conference - Building RIAs Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

News - 14 hours ago

Many of today's (and tomorrow’s) development projects lend themselves nicely to RIA application patterns. Silverlight offers a compelling RIA development experience that works on Linux, the Mac and windows as well as all major browsers. With HD video, vector based graphics and a rich set of control read more

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