Google Acquires WritelyMarch 10th, 2006 Google Inc. bought the Silicon Valley start-up Upstartle, creators of Writely , high quality internet word processing software. Writely lets users compose documents on the Web and share them with others as well as blog them.
Best Of Breed Web 2.0 ProductsFebruary 24th, 2006 ZDNet has compiled a list of best of breed Web 2.0 applications which includes two from my compilation. In other words Microsoft Office alternatives for Web 2.0.
Free 10 Week AJAX Programming Online CourseJuly 14th, 2006 A free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX.
When *not to* use AJAXApril 18th, 2005 An example of wrong usage of AJAX aka XmlHttpRequest based web applications - TinkingTeam Corporate Website. Here the menu content is dynamically fetched using Ajax.
Free High Quality Java Charting Software, JFreeChart 1.0.0, ReleasedDecember 7th, 2005 I personally used JFreeChart is several projects. I found it to be of very high quality.
Google Pages Introduced and WithdrawnFebruary 24th, 2006 Google seems to have developed a habit of introducing new services and then withdrawing them due to high demand and reintroducing them selectively later. Google Web Accelerator, Google Analytics and now Google Pages, all follow this overused pattern.
Web -2.0: Bloglet and FeedBlitz Competes in Providing Abysmally Poor ServiceOctober 23rd, 2005 Bloglet and FeedBlitz are both free blog subscription by email service and they are equally horrible. I use Bloglet to provide email subscription service from this blog.
Google Web Toolkit: A Brief ReviewMay 17th, 2006 Google has released GWT - a java window toolkit which converts your java applications (using the toolkit API) to javascript (incl. AJAX) and HTML.
Yahoo UI Library (JavaScript + AJAX) is Worth LookingFebruary 17th, 2006 Yahoo released an UI library for web applications, developed using Javascript and AJAX. It provides some nifty components like dual-calendar, tree, drag-and-drop, slidedrs etc.
The Viability of Java Applet Based Web ApplicationsDecember 7th, 2005 Today I see fewer applets on the web. In many cases they are hidden and are used to perform specialized non-visual tasks.
Oracle Surges 11% To New 52 Week High; Thoughts on OracleSeptember 26th, 2006 Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL) surged more than 11% to a new 52-week high on Wednesday backed by strong first quarter earnings and underscoring the strength of the company's decision to grow by acquisition. Oracle spent about $20 billion to buy PeopleSoft in 2005 and Siebel Systems this year, solidifying its place in the market for corporate applications.
Top 10 Ajax Tutorial For YouMay 14th, 2009 Recently we are concentrating on tutorials a lot. Results: Top 10 Tutorials to Develop iPhone Apps and Top 10 Nginx Tutorial to help you out.
Answering Joel Spolsky's Questions On Enterprise DevelopmentSeptember 4th, 2006 Joel Spolsky was asked four important questions on enterprise development. Joel didn't offer a clear answer on some of them.
How To Install RSSOwl (High Quality Feed Reader) in Fedora Core 6 / LinuxApril 11th, 2007 RSSOwl is a high quality cross-platform (written in java; uses swt library) RSS / Atom Feed reader which is a superior free alternative to Newzcrawler or Feedreader for linux. Fedora Core 6 provides an RPM distribution for it (doesn't work) which you can install simply by:
yum install rssowl
However as stated before it doesn't work.
Microsoft Unveils Windows Live PortalMarch 10th, 2006 Microsoft unveils Windows Live portal and search interface which is like good 'ol excite.com on AJAX diet and some more. The key features are:
Search results allows controlling the level of details using a scrollbar
Results can be scrolled using a scrollbar and fetched live with AJAX.
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October 23rd, 2005 at 2:52 pm
You’re welcome! And, thanks for linking back to me. ^_^
As for the fore-mentioned AJAX services, my favorite is Writely. Mostly because it allows me to periodically work on short stories and research papers whenever inspiration strikes me, as long as I am near a computer with a fairly modern browser. Writely provides the [almost] complete freedom to write when I want and where I want.
October 24th, 2005 at 10:56 am
@MacManx
After all I came to know about this applications from you.
> thanks for linking back to me
It is my duty
I tend to agree with you now (about Writely), after my initial WOW factor with TiddlyWiki has worn off. in any case it is an wonderful innovation.
December 2nd, 2005 at 12:16 pm
[...] I was talking before about Web 2.0 services and gave examples of some high quality free Web 2.0 services. With a sad heart I nominate both Bloglet and FeedBlitz for Web -2.0 service (dis)honor. [...]
February 24th, 2006 at 4:41 am
[...] ZDNet has compiled a list of best of breed Web 2.0 applications which includes two from my compilation. In other words Microsoft Office alternatives for Web 2.0. Here is the list in brief along with some comments and suggestions. [...]
March 10th, 2006 at 4:33 am
[...] Google Inc. bought the Silicon Valley start-up Upstartle, creators of Writely , high quality internet word processing software. [...]