What’s SAP doing to help customers infuse Web-based apps with rich-client functionality? It’s nearly impossible to achieve a RIA architecture – even on one of the many RIA stacks – unless you’ve done a decent job of service-orienting the underlying capabilities you want to access. You need the metadata that describes not just the business […]
Tim O’Reilley in Concurrent Programming: Erlang, Haskell… and XSLT the fundamental paradigms of programming are going to be challenged as systems and processors scale up. Erlang and Haskell have been mentioned as some possible candidates. Erlang is designed from the ground up to help programmers create highly concurrently (read thousands or processes), highly reliable (read […]
Since first formed, OpenAJAX seems to have gained a lot of support (70+ members). One of the most visible recent events, is Microsoft and Google joining the OpenAJAX alliance in addition to a host of other members. The Alliance, an industry collaboration whose purpose is to develop and expand the use of Ajax, said it […]
Doug’s idea of Hyperscope is almost seven years old. At iMorph, we built a prototype about 4 years ago. More recently Eugene set up a Hyperscope team and did some outstanding work. I am surprised that it has not become a product yet. The original Hyperscope paper is here. Here is a summary of its […]
Here is an event, I would not like to miss. The description is appetizing enough. From the ACM Talk email alert: The “Scribblenet” is a gentle romp through the design and philosophy of walking the line between making it easy enough for people to bother putting data in to a system and still useful enough […]
I came across Alice a couple of weeks back. I saw a reference again today. And these words really caught my attention. I’m huge on efforts like Alice and other projects to bring novices and newbies into the ranks of programming. Just as I think everybody has a book in them, I believe everybody has […]
I got this data from an Idea Receptiveness Survey. The most popular choice is to look outside for new ideas (43%) when facing a difficult problem. Only 12% stated that they would continue to try to come up with ideas themselves. The ‘other’ answers included the following with the first two mentioned several times: · […]
Share your ideas. The Economist Magazine’s Project Red Stripe, promises to keep the ideas open, recognize you for your contribution, even give you a token gift. Your idea can be as simple or complex as you like. It could be a product, a service or a business model. Before you jot your idea down, think […]
It is nice to see Gartner recognizing innovation and creating a category called cool vendors. Never heard of this before. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology […]
What is the simplest, most effective way of explaining the power of the Semantic Web? Semantic Search which works 10 times better than the current Search technologies may be one of them. Today a typical Google search returns up to hundreds of thousands or even millions of results — but we only really look at […]