i-Technology Viewpoint

Widget Wars: OpenSocial vs. OpenAjax vs. W3C Widgets

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:15:00 EDT

The popularity of widgets these days has brought to attention the need for interoperability, i.e. for widgets developed for one site or platform to be able to run in other sites and widgets developed by different people to be able to work with each other. So much so that I know of at least 3 somewhat competing specifications for widgets. There's the gadget portion of the OpenSocial specs which was adopted from the Google Gadgets work. Then there's OpenAjax which is more broadly focused on Ajax interoperability but has a lot of pieces geared towards widget interoperability.

Do You Have an SLA For Your Flex RIA?

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:00:00 EDT

A perspective client showed me a Web page from Adobe’s Connect Now. Check this page out before reading further: https://connectnow.acrobat.com/ “Yakov, I want our new application to be like that one. The page comes up really fast and it’s very responsive. Can you create our Flex application for us that will be really, really fast? “ “Yes, I can but it requires planning, and applying special modularization techniques”.

Get Adobe Flex Builder 3 Free If You Are Unemployed

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:15:00 EDT

Adobe has re-opened the "Adobe Flex Builder 3 for unemployed developers" program. It means that "Adobe Flex Builder 3" software is currently available for free, while supplies last, for software developers who are affected by the current economic condition and are currently unemployed. Read the program eligibility and don't miss this occasion

Blogging – Corporate America's "Big Wet Kiss To Web 2.0"

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:30:00 EST

The significance of blogging is not the word 'blog' whether used as a verb or a noun, but its role as a harbinger of the game-changing Web-as-platform revolution. In particular, the migration of blogging from the individual toward the enterprise...

Industry Viewpoint: The ColdFusion Knowledge Gap

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:45:00 EDT

This is something that has been simmering below the surface for a while, but needs to come out in the open. There is a knowledge gap in the ColdFusion community and it is only getting wider. There are a lot of what would be considered 'entry-level' or 'junior' developers out there. These people can use a good bit of the database functionality that CF offers, but don't push it much beyond a way to display database tables and insert and update data.

ColdFusion's Place in the New i-Technology Spectrum

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 18:45:00 EST

ColdFusion recently took a bit of a jump up to #19 on TIOBE Software's index of most popular programming languages (www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index). I hadn't looked at this index in a while but it's interesting to see what CF is both above and below, and it's also nice to see the nine green up arrows next to it on the chart.

US Air Force To Invade Cyberspace – Is This the i-Technology Story of the Year?

Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:00:00 EST

If you thought that 2005 would end quietly in the i-Technology world, think again: it's going to end with a rumpus, a furore, an unprecedented worldwide commotion. Because the Secretary of the US Air Force Michael W. Wynne and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley have just written in a joint Letter to Airmen that the USAF is to start 'dominating' cyberspace.

The Next Programming Models

Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:00:00 EDT

I've been around software for 20 years now. Looking back, I have mixed feelings about the progress we've made. The end results have been amazing, but the process of building software hasn't fundamentally changed since the 80s. In fact, I see us making some of the same mistakes over and over again. One of the common anti-patterns is over-relying on tools and frameworks instead of inventing new programming models.