Archive for category web2.0
Google Release AJAXSLT
Posted by Stephen Downey in AJAX, api, Google, XSLT on September 12, 2006
Google have just released AJAXSLT.
…an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript, intended for use in fat web pages, which are nowadays referred to as AJAX applications.
I'm looking forward to playing around with this. I have being doing a lot of work with XSLT lately so it will be interesting to see how Google have married this with AJAX.
Google Calendar
I have been looking at yet another great tool from Google. In true Web 2.0 style Google calendar allows people to share calendar events with on the web. They provide an API so I am going to try to integrate my public events with my web site.
On a different note, I was at another DJMG meeting last week where we discussed dynamic languages such as Ruby on Rails and Groovy. It looks like there are a lot of advantages to using these languages over the conventional Java program. Jake was able to show us how Ruby on Rails can provide you with web interface to database tables in just a few clicks. As we discussed this software works great for what 95% of web applications use J2EE for and at the end of the day this is what we usually are developing.
Web 2.0 – Desktop2.0?
Posted by Stephen Downey in web2.0 on April 7, 2006
I just received a link in my del.icio.us inbox to this "interesting" presentation. The subject matter is very interesting in itself but the presentation style is not your run of the mill powerpoint.
The presentation discusses a very interesting point. All web2.0 developers are looking for the following:
Fast Revenues
Rich UI
Hackable API's
Communities
On the other end of the spectrum, the guys and girls developing client side "old school" applications are looking for:
Fast Revenues
Rich UI
Hackable API's
On Demand
Communities
As you can see the goals of these two communities are pretty similar, it would be very beneficial for everyone to join forces to achieve the common goal.
"At the end of the day we are just talking about passing data between people".
Anyone that wanted to talk were invited to add there name to the time slots marked out on the flip chart. The first talk I listened to was