I spoke on a panel at Mashup Camp this week on why Ajax Standards matter. I was quoted by Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise as saying that we are locked in a struggle for the soul of the web, so I thought I would expand on that theme.
Just because the web has been open so far doesn’t mean that it will stay that way. By open, I mean that content has been searchable, linkable and servable without paying fees.

Flash and Silverlight, arguably the two market-leading technology toolkits More»

Labels: ajax, Open Source, RIA

WaveMaker was selected as a Staff Pick for the Apple download site, and broke into the top 10 Apple downloads today, weighing in at number 7 and edging out Google Earth!
WaveMaker 4 features a Mac installer and the WaveMaker Ajax Studio runs best in the Safari browser (of course, to be fair, almost everything that runs in a browser runs best in Safari).
WaveMaker’s visual studio lowers the learning curve for building Ajax apps and greatly increases productivity over traditional hand-coded Javascript More»

Labels: ajax, macintosh

This week, WaveMaker Software introduced WaveMaker 4, an open-source visual development environment for Ajax applications. WaveMaker 4 provides a point and click development platform capable of creating a fully deployed Ajax application in just 9 mouse clicks!
I’m not talking about some proprietary hairball here - in 9 clicks, WaveMaker takes you from a blank screen to a fully deployed Ajax application complete with Postgres Plus database connectivity and running on a standard Tomcat/Spring/Hibernate server.

The WaveMaker 4 release focused improvements in 4 areas:

Lowest learning More»

Labels: ajax, RIA, wysiwyg

Want to know where Google is going with their popular Gadgets project? Join the Visual Ajax User Group webinar Thursday, June 19 at 12 PST.
This month’s meeting will feature Adam Sah, Architect, Google Gadgets, on Ajax-enabled Widgets/Gadgets and Ads. Adam has been the founder and technical visionary behind 4 successful startups.
Adam will give you the inside scoop on how to develop new Google gadgets, use gadgets in your Ajax applications and demystify Google ads via gadgets.
Register More»

Labels: ajax

I am doing a lot of customer presentations these days, so am getting much “constructive criticism” about the number of confusing buzzwords on the WaveMaker web site. Buzzwords represent job security for entrepreneurs like me who would be practically unemployable were it not for our secret knowledge of the true meaning of words like Web 2.0.
However, even I must admit that these Buzzwords 2.0 get in the way clear communication. In addition, while there are many standalone definitions of these terms, it More»

Labels: ajax, RIA, Rich Internet Application, web 2.0

WaveMaker announced a partnership last week with Enterprise DB, specifically their blades program. Enterprise DB (based on Postgres) is being bundled with the next release of WaveMaker to beef up the database part of our Ajax development platform.
Now Lewis Cunningham, a Senior Solutions Architect for Enterprise DB, has posted a great WaveMaker product review. He compares WaveMaker to Oracle Forms and Oracle ApEx, with the difference that WaveMaker works with standard Java and the Oracle products only More»

Labels: ajax, EnterpriseDB, oracle forms, Postgres, wavemaker

If you are planning on attending the MySQL conference in Santa Clara next week, you should definitely check out the BoF session Tuesday night 4/15 @ 8:30 Ballroom E, titled “Be a Web 2.0 Rock Star”
Anand Pandey of MySQL will be conducting a hands-on training session on the open source WaveMaker visual Ajax studio.
For added excitement, there will also be a speed Web 2.0 code-a-thon with judging by More»

Labels: ajax, mysql, Visual Ajax, wavemaker

The first Visual Ajax User Group webinar will be next Thursday, March 20 at 12 PST. The speaker will be Alex Russell, co-author of the Dojo toolkit. He will be talking about “The Zen of Web 2.0 - How to Make Web App Development Effortless.”
To sign up, send an email to rsvp@visualajax.org
The meeting will be at the offices of WaveMaker Software, 301 Howard Street, 22nd Floor, but space is limited and we are nearing capacity. There is plenty More»

Labels: ajax, Dojo, Visual Ajax

I know I’m dating myself, but Bill Cosby had a pretty funny routine where a PE Teacher explains that the purpose of air is to pump up basketballs and volleyballs.
Now Adobe has launched their Air product (with a matching Kevin Lynch NY Times article, and GigaOm fan dance) to allow platform to allow browser apps to escape from their little Firefox and IE prisons and flit gaily across the desktop like “real” apps.
Now what exactly are the More»

Labels: Adobe, Air, ajax, Dojo, RIA, Visual Ajax

When it comes to Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies, application development professionals must choose between two paths: AJAX or Adobe Flex.
AJAX is the best bet for experienced web development shops looking to incrementally evolve existing web applications. AJAX is considered the fast lane to a better user experience. Selecting AJAX also raises the question of whether to go with a homegrown, open source, or commercial AJAX framework.
In contrast, Adobe is best for shops looking to completely transform their Web experiences. But to do so, firms must acquire the skills necessary to use Flex, which is the development framework for the More»

Labels: Adobe, ajax, RIA, user experience