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Coach Wei
Coach Wei is the Founder and Chairman of Nexaweb (www.nexaweb.com), developers of the leading software platform for building and deploying Web 2.0 and AJAX applications. Previously, he played a key role at EMC Corporation in the development of a new generation of storage network management software. Wei has his master's degree from MIT, holds several patents, is the author of several technology publications including JDJ, Web 2.0 Journal, and AJAXWorld Magazine, and is an industry advocate for the proliferation of open standards.
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By Coach Wei  The notion of having a CTO for the USA is very exciting. It’s a job that I’d really want to have - I’m working on my resume right now!!! More important than the question of who will be the CTO is which industry this person should be coming from. I’d really really recommend the ... Nov. 10, 2008 06:00 AM Reads: 399 | By Coach Wei These are a few key concepts of JavaScript language that developers should know: execution context, activation object, variable instantiation, scoping, closure, eval and “this” keyword. Knowing these would help one tremendously in Ajax development. For example, when you write an in... Sep. 15, 2008 08:00 PM Reads: 954 | By Coach Wei  “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 Chrome c... Sep. 15, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 1,079 | By Coach Wei The amount of JavaScript code on the client side is increasing significantly with the growing popularity of Ajax and Web 2.0. Web developers rely on JavaScript heavily these days in order to deliver a richer user experience. Including a either home-grown or third party JavaScript libra... Sep. 15, 2008 12:45 PM Reads: 682 | By Coach Wei 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 y... Sep. 15, 2008 11:04 AM Reads: 724 | By Coach Wei; on behalf of the OpenAjax Alliance  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 innovat... Jul. 17, 2008 05:45 AM Reads: 2,090 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei; Rob Gonda On April 30, 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free for anyone to use and the Web took off, jumping from 130 Web sites in 1993, to over 100,000 in 1996, to 11.5 billion sites in 2005. The main protocol used on the Web is the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It's ... May. 19, 2008 01:00 PM Reads: 24,341 | By Coach Wei  The Web is one of the most important technological as well as social/cultural developments in our life. Its global impact is rooted in its openness and its capability to evolve on a democratic basis. However, I have concerns. I'm concerned about the significant corporate interests driv... Apr. 3, 2008 04:45 AM Reads: 4,106 Replies: 2 | By Coach Wei  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. Like many Java developers, I get along w... Apr. 1, 2008 05:30 PM Reads: 110,848 Replies: 128 | By Coach Wei  Despite the web 2.0 hype and growth of firms of Y-Combinator, the corporate venture investment has not evolved at all. Corporations in general are having a hard time adjusting to the web 2.0 age. When I brought up this idea to Microsoft executives a year ago during a discussion, appare... Apr. 1, 2008 04:00 PM Reads: 3,517 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei  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 a 'wish list' ... Mar. 29, 2008 07:30 AM Reads: 12,226 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei  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 chal... Mar. 13, 2008 11:15 AM Reads: 6,256 | By Coach Wei  As a web 2.0 guy who blogs on 'Direct from Web 2.0', I did not see this coming. In fact, my preferences were Mitt Romney from the republican side (maybe McCain too) and Hilary Clinton from the democrat side. I think the three of them (Mitt Romney, John McCain and Hilary Clinton) will d... Jan. 9, 2008 10:00 AM Reads: 13,580 Replies: 5 | By Coach Wei 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 gzi... Dec. 2, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 10,321 Replies: 5 | By Coach Wei  Prototype.js is a popular AJAX toolkit for web developers. I have enjoyed using it despite the complaints I heard from people about how Prototype.js does too much JavaScript hacking that breaks other people's code. One of the common complaints is that Prototype.js adds methods to built... Nov. 22, 2007 09:45 AM Reads: 9,235 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei  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 w... Oct. 1, 2007 02:45 AM Reads: 12,817 | By Coach Wei  This is interesting not only because it bridges a gap in Dojo toolkit. Dojo has been the most credible offering in the Ajax marketplace so far (there are a few other good ones too, such as jQuery and EXT, though they have different design focus from Dojo). A lot of customers have been ... Sep. 17, 2007 04:15 PM Reads: 15,530 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei 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 know... Aug. 29, 2007 11:45 AM Reads: 13,856 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei Quite a few people are asking me what I think of Sun's JavaFX announcement. It is funny and we saw this coming - Who wouldn't anticipate Sun to make some big announcement at JavaOne? People were predicting the announcement is going to be 'open sourcing Java' - Oh, no, that was last yea... Aug. 1, 2007 07:30 PM Reads: 35,513 Replies: 2 | By Coach Wei OpenAjax Alliance has been growing well with over 70 members. The initial OpenAjaxHub received immediate community response - most are positive and a few responses were negative but turned out to be very helpful. Over ten Ajax offerings demonstrated support for OpenAjaxHub already (suc... Jun. 7, 2007 12:30 PM Reads: 18,975 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei 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 ... Jun. 2, 2007 07:45 PM Reads: 13,248 | By Coach Wei 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 on March 21 2007 sayin... Jun. 2, 2007 05:45 PM Reads: 19,586 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei The JavaScript file handles various window-related events such as resizing the window in response to mouse-drag events on the four edges, maximizing the window or closing the window in response to mouse-click events, or moving the window in response to mouse-drag events on the title ba... May. 22, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 11,740 | By Coach Wei The AjaxWord client consists of JavaScript and HMTL code. The application's user interface is defined in HTML. Client-side logic written in JavaScript defi nes the behavior of the user interface by leveraging a generic JavaScript/DHTML toolkit that's built from scratch. From a Model-Vi... May. 21, 2007 11:00 AM Reads: 10,052 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei AjaxWord (www.ajaxword.com) is an open source Web-based word processor. It closely mimics Microsoft Word in both look-and-feel and functionality. The application was initially written between 1997 and 1999 using JavaScript/DHTML on the client side with ASP on the server side. It was re... May. 20, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 45,772 | By Coach Wei Adobe sent out a press release 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 be misleading a little bit. Adobe... Apr. 26, 2007 09:30 AM Reads: 18,208 Replies: 2 | By Coach Wei 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 requires hundreds of kilobytes of download, sometime even over megabytes. Dylan Schiemann from Dojo ... Apr. 4, 2007 07:15 PM Reads: 22,319 Replies: 2 | By Coach Wei AJAXWorld is a great conference that hundrends of people gathered here at RooseVelt Hotel in NYC. You can see and hear the excitement around this new paradigm of computing. But once in while, there are things that are quite amusing. Java vs. Microsoft WPF: It was great to catch up with... Mar. 20, 2007 05:30 PM Reads: 16,338 Replies: 2 | By Coach Wei  AjaxWord (www.ajaxword.com) is an open source Web-based word processor. It closely mimics Microsoft Word in both look-and-feel and functionality. The application was initially written between 1997 and 1999 using JavaScript/DHTML on the client side with ASP on the server side. It was re... Mar. 18, 2007 02:00 PM Reads: 25,788 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei The number of mobile workers globally will soon be more than double the total U.S. population, according to predictions by another analyst firm, IDC Corp. IDC has predicted that in two years there will be 878 million mobile workers linked to their corporate headquarters by notebook PCs... Feb. 23, 2007 06:45 PM Reads: 13,155 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei Corporate IT has always been centered on application development and maintenance. Each evolution of computing, from mainframe to client/server to web 1.0, brings dramatically improved efficiency, significantly lowered costs and new business opportunities. Web 2.0 is not different eithe... Feb. 23, 2007 04:30 PM Reads: 21,677 Replies: 1 | By Coach Wei; Rob Gonda Ever since the term AJAX was coined, the concept has spread like wildfire in developer communities. Lots of applications have been developed using AJAX. In fact, a lot of applications were developed using AJAX long before AJAX came into existence. In this section, we will go over some ... Feb. 20, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 16,978 | By Coach Wei; Rob Gonda AJAX is a viable way to develop richer, more interactive Web applications. These kinds of applications are typically referred to as 'Rich Internet Applications' (RIAs). RIA is a term that describes the next-generation Web applications that combine the performance and functionality of d... Feb. 18, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 18,053 | By Coach Wei; Rob Gonda Given the challenges associated with AJAX, it is particularly important to architect an AJAX application properly. Otherwise the result can be either lackluster performance or a code maintenance nightmare, or both. Feb. 17, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 15,013 | By Coach Wei; Rob Gonda AJAX has raised the awareness of the potential of Web applications. It has also deepened and broadened the use of JavaScript and DHTML in application development. There are significant benefits to AJAX, but there are also significant challenges. Feb. 16, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 13,710 | By Coach Wei; Rob Gonda AJAX changes the role of Web pages from being merely HTML documents into 'applications' that contain both HTML markup and code. And it changes the role of the 'server' from merely serving HTML pages to serving data too. In classic Web applications, Web servers serve HTML Web pages. Som... Feb. 15, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 13,949 | By Coach Wei; Rob Gonda 'Ajax, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does n... Feb. 13, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 13,587 | By Coach Wei 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. Feb. 9, 2007 08:15 AM Reads: 21,930 Replies: 6 | By Coach Wei  In this comprehensive article Wei re-examines Web 2.0, in contrast to the common consumer-centric point of view, by looking at its technology stack and impact on enterprise computing. Wei establishes a Web 2.0 technology stack that forms the foundation of a paradigm shift he calls the ... Jan. 11, 2007 12:30 AM Reads: 26,756 Replies: 3 | By Coach Wei 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 is that the peak between two adja... Dec. 21, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 17,182 Replies: 1 |
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