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AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo 2008 West: Themes & Topics

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:00:00 EDT

A round-up of the overall themes and topics being presented at the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA, October 20-22, 2008 - including AIR & Flex, AJAX, ASP.NET, Business Case for RIAs, Cloud Computing, Comet, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), iPhone Development, JavaScript, Mashups, Mobile RIAs, Open APIs & Toolkits, SaaS, Security, Silverlight, Social Software, and User Interface & User eXperience Issues.

Gomez Adds Cross-Browser Testing for New Google Chrome

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:15:00 EDT

Gomez announced the availability of cross-browser testing for Google’s new browser, Chrome, and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 8 beta 2. Using Gomez’s Reality View XF service, developers can now visualize how new and existing web applications will appear and perform when rendered in the Chrome and IE 8 beta browsers.

Google Chrome Compatible with Lightstreamer AJAX

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Chrome, the new Google browser, was released yesterday as a beta version for Windows Vista/XP and officially entered the browser war, where the primary competitors are currently Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome offers many interesting features, aimed at making the browsing experience more robust, more secure, and faster.

JavaScript Powers Up the Server Side

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:43:00 EDT

Aptana Jaxer is a new open source application server built especially for AJAX application development in JavaScript. To say that "Jaxer lets you do JavaScript on the server-side" would be accurate, but an understatement. The core concept of Jaxer is that it provides a parity of environments at the client and the server to simplify the creation of rich AJAX pages, apps, and gadgets – and by so doing, gives the Web developer a unified runtime at both the client and server tiers.

Instantiations Updates GWT Designer with Support for Google Web Toolkit 1.5 Release

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:30:00 EDT

Instantiations announced the release of GWT Designer 5.1. This major version upgrade of the product includes support for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.5, released August 28, as well as basic support for GWT-Ext and MyGWT, both popular widget kits.

AJAX Technology Leader Received Funding

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:35:00 EDT

Telerik announced that it has received an investment from Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm that has raised more than $11 billion since inception. The investment will be used to fund both organic growth and acquisitions.

iPhone Developer Summit - iPhone in Action: Web Development or SDK?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:00:00 EDT

There are two distinct ways to develop applications for Apple's iPhone, the top tech gadget of the year. Programmers can choose to create optimized web applications using web languages or to write native programs using the iPhone SDK. Rather than seeing this as an either-or proposition, developers should consider the choice a continuum and pick the right tool to create each individual program. With iPhone web applications, programmers can enjoy all the advantages of the Internet, including ease of development and deployment, speed of updating and off-line server access. Meanwhile, with iPhone native applications, programmers can immerse themselves in a sophisticated development environment, dig deep into an object-oriented language, and access the iPhone's built-in utilities, like its accelerometers and its GPS. This talk will highlight the advantages and disadvantages of each style of programming and discuss ways to hybridize them, creating integrated projects that utilize the best of both worlds.

Nth Penguin Releases WebWidgetry Data Services

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:00:00 EDT

Nth Penguin has released WW.DataServices to the public and is available for immediate download at: www.nthpenguin.com. WW.DataServices, the first system of the WebWidgetry engine, removes all the work from accessing your data. You simply point it to a database location, push a button, and it generates everything for you.

Micro-Fame: How To Be the Celebrity of Your Own Social System

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:25:00 EDT

Andy Warhol's prophecy was fulfilled with the advent of MTV's programming and widespread reality television. We're now seeing a new kind of micro-fame which lasts well beyond 15 minutes. You don't have to have thousands of friends on My Space, Facebook or Twitter to feel like a "Weblebrity" — you can be the celebrity of your own social system regardless of size.

M/Gateway to Exhibit at SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:30:00 EDT

M/Gateway Developments Ltd, is a UK based company that specializes in advanced web application technologies, integration and middleware technologies. M/Gateway’s flagship product, eXtc Web Developer (EWD), is a rapid web application development technology, incorporating a powerful yet simple-use AJAX framework. EWD is unique in that it is completely technology agnostic.

ILOG To Exhibit At SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:00:00 EDT

ILOG delivers software that empowers their customers to make better decisions, faster. Over 2,000 global corporations and more than 400 leading software vendors rely on ILOG's visualization, business rule management system and optimization software components to achieve dramatic returns on investment, and create market-defining products and services. Visit us to learn about ILOG JViews, our customizable Java and AJAX display components for building diagrams, dashboards, maps, schedules and charts. ILOG was founded in 1987 and employs more than 730 people worldwide.

Oracle Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:00:00 EDT

Oracle's business is information-how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle is a vendor that offers solutions for every tier of your business-database, middleware, business intelligence, business applications, and collaboration. With Oracle, you get information that helps you measure results, improve business processes, and communicate a single truth to your constituents.

Neotys Named "Bronze Sponsor" Of SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:00:00 EDT

Keynote Systems Named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:45:00 EDT

Keynote Systems is a provider of on-demand test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience. As an independent third party, Keynote provides IT and marketing executives with an unbiased view into their Internet services from around the world and enables companies to understand and improve their customer's online and mobile experience. Keynote's test and measurement businesses include Web performance, mobile quality, streaming & VoIP, and customer experience/UX. Keynote's industry analysis group, Keynote Competitive Research, publishes proprietary studies measuring customer experience and service levels across a wide range of industries.

Appcelerator Named "Platinum Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:45:00 EDT

Appcelerator is an open source software company specializing in products and services for rapid rich Internet application (RIA) and SOA-based services development. The Appcelerator Platform SDKs enable developers to develop rich AJAX and DHTML applications using cross-browser widgets, a unique Web Expression Language and other open standards-based languages like HTML and CSS - without the use of JavaScript. Appcelerator supports most languages, including Java, Ruby, PHP, .NET, Python and Perl.

KANA Chooses WaveMaker AJAX Development Tools

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:30:00 EDT

WaveMaker announced an OEM partnership with KANA Software. KANA will use WaveMaker to develop its next generation customer service solutions. KANA selected WaveMaker’s Visual AJAX Studio to build a browser-based client interface for its next-generation customer service solution.

AJAX-Based Applications & Cloud Computing

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:45:00 EDT

I recently introduced the concept of Synced-Data Applications (SDAs). SDAs, summarized in the following figure, owe their existence to the convergence of the cloud and the desktop/handheld.

Silverlight Races To Victory in Singapore's 2008 Formula 1 Grand Prix

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:20:00 EDT

Here's another Silverlight app that I've been bursting to share with y'all. It's from the promotion site for the 2008 Formula 1 Grand Prix being hosted in Singapore and sponsored by SingTel. It's a great and innovative use of Video. They are running a competition called the 'heart race' where 20 models will get your heart racing, but can you get theirs to race?

Gizmox Brings Microsoft Silverlight to Enterprises

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:05:00 EDT

Gizmox announced the release of a fully functional beta version of its Visual WebGui (VWG) with support for Microsoft Silverlight. For the first time, VWG enables Silverlight for enterprise applications by providing a RAD like Windows Forms development experience with drag & drop design that cuts development cycles by as much as 90%.

Google Chrome Comes Out of a Comic Book

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:30:00 EDT

Philipp Lenssen at the “Google Blogoscoped” blog broke the story on September 1, 2008 that Google is launching an open source browser called Google Chrome. Lennsen writes: “Today there was a comic book in my mail, sent by Google and drawn by no less than Scott McCloud, creator of the classic Understanding Comics. Within the 38 pages, which I’ve scanned and put up, in very readable format Google gives the technical details into a project of theirs: an open source browser called Google Chrome. The book points to www.google.com/chrome, but I can’t see anything live there yet.”

Google Chrome - Browser War III

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:30:00 EDT

Google will come out from behind the Firefox browser that it’s been pumping money into – and profiting royally from – and take direct aim at Microsoft with a browser of its very own. The widgetry is called Google Chrome and Google Chrome, like all of Google’s non-search widgetry, will be a beta.

Oracle Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Oracle's business is information-how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. An enterprise software company, Oracle is a vendor that offers solutions for every tier of your business-database, middleware, business intelligence, business applications, and collaboration. With Oracle, you get information that helps you measure results, improve business processes, and communicate a single truth to your constituents.

Spice Up User Experience with Silverlight

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:45:00 EDT

Microsoft introduced Silverlight as cross-platform, cross-browser next generation RIA solution. This session will use real world implementations to show you how to build a Silverlight application from start to finish, as well overall strategy why we should or shouldn't use Silverlight. No matter whether you have LAMP, ASP.NET or Java Web application, you can take advantage of Silverlight to impress your user with the 'Wow' effects.

AJAX World RIA Conference: Building RIAs Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:30:00 EDT

Many of today (and tomorrow’s) development projects lend themselves nicely to RIA application patterns. Silverlight offers a compelling RIA development experience that works on Linux, the Mac and windows as well as all major browsers. With HD video, vector based graphics and a rich set of controls including DataGrid Silverlight offers a compelling development experience in nearly any programming language you’d like from C# and VB to JavaScript and Python. Learn how to use Visual Studio to create applications, how to create UI using XAML markup and code, how to retrieve data from the web, and how to manipulate data with XML and LINQ. This talk uses the 100% free Silverlight runtime and Visual Studio tools.

AJAX World RIA Conference - How To Build On-Demand Business Apps Using Force.com & Flex

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:15:00 EDT

Enterprises are enthusiastically embracing the shift from traditional client/server computing to SaaS. Inspired by customers who have embraced the Web, developers are using RIA tools to create innovative new on-demand business applications. One important factor in the shift from traditional computing to SaaS has been ease of use through vendors' careful attention to the user experience utilizing RIA technologies. This jointly presented session will present how RIA technologies such as AJAX and Flex - in combination with the Force.com platform - provide all the tools necessary for developers to build an enterprise-class application - sometimes within hours!

AJAX World RIA Conference - Flex, Flash and Loosely Coupled On Demand

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Adobe Flex and Flash are the ideal technology for Rich Internet Applications because you can build those applications with reusable components that are Loosely Coupled. In his session, learn how you can create an On-Demand Authoring Environment for creating Rich Internet Applications bound to any database or web service using Flex 2 and Flash CS4.

AJAX World RIA Conference - AJAX in Enterprise Portals

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Not only enterprise portals integrators are using AJAX at the portal level but now they can also use it for the development of more user-friendly JSR-168 portlets. With the arrival of new standards, AJAXified JSF Components like IceFaces to RichFaces became a reality that can be portable across the many JSR-168 portlet containers implementations, in the commercial or open source worlds. During this presentation, we will explain how this has been made possible and how one can write such portlets.

AJAX World RIA Conference - Bringing Voice and Messaging to Flash and AIR

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:45:00 EDT

Director of Ribbit's Developer Platform, Chuck Freedman, will explore an evolution in web communication. With the growing demand of RIA and voice-over-the-web solutions, developers finally have a full suite of communication APIs to add to Flash. Coding with Ribbit, Freedman will demonstrate how to send SMS messages from your application. The session will explore features that let users check voicemail, listen to and even read their messages. We will see how to easily make and receive calls from Flash so customers can call you (or your client) without leaving the web page or picking up the phone. Freedman will reveal a killer app that can do it all - something attendees will quickly be able to build too, after experiencing this session.

AJAX World RIA Conference - RIAs: 'Flying Pixels' and Enterprise Applications?

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:30:00 EDT

Rich Internet Applications have become ubiquitous to the point that many of us rely on them for daily activities. But there's a big difference between consumer websites and enterprise-class applications. While new browser capabilities provide a richer look and feel for consumer sites, they also facilitate mission-critical enterprise applications that deliver improved functionality, richness and end-user productivity. This session will explore various approaches to building RIAs and the pros and cons of each. As part of his review, Jeremy Chone will outline seven practical tips for bringing RIA to the enterprise.

AJAX World RIA Conference - Using the Cloud to Build Cost-Effective, Highly-Scalable Web Apps

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Cloud Computing isn’t just another buzzword: this session will look at what the industry is up to, Amazon is up to, and especially how people are innovating in the cloud. Buzzwords aside, virtualized (cloud) computing is a disruptive game changer at both technical and business levels, as you'll learn. Amazon Senior Evangelist Jeff Barr will review Amazon's multi-year effort to provide software developers and entrepreneurs with the technical and business innovations which allow them to build cost-effective, highly-scalable web applications.

Open Source RIA Framework qooxdoo 0.8 Released

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:36:00 EDT

qooxdoo is a comprehensive and innovative AJAX application framework. Leveraging object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build cross-browser applications. No HTML, CSS or DOM knowledge is needed. It includes a platform-independent development tool chain, a state-of-the-art GUI toolkit and an advanced client-server communication layer. It is open source under an LGPL/EPL dual license.

SYS-CON Webcast - AJAX and Social Computing for the Enterprise

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:15:00 EDT

Social computing is no longer a casual activity: corporations are increasingly leveraging wikis and blogs to enhance collaboration inside and outside the firewall. Next-generation social computing demands spontaneous and responsive collaboration. Are AJAX technologies up to the task? This webcast explores the challenges, practices, and futures for AJAX collaboration techniques. Beginning with a review of existing open source AJAX technologies, covering deployment infrastructure, application development, and supporting libraries, we will continue with several examples of what is possible today. This webcast will give you an understanding of where social computing can go and what AJAX technologies will take it there.

SYS-CON Webcast - DreamFace: The Ultimate Framework for Creating Personalized Web 2.0 Mashups

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:30:00 EDT

You’ve heard about Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups, you’ve seen the press, now you can see the real thing; announcing “Outsider”, version 3 of our highly acclaimed DreamFace Open Source AJAX Framework for building Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups. Find out how to build personalized and shareable Web 2.0 Mashups by combining internal company data with public data from the web.

SYS-CON Webcast - Think Fast: Accelerate AJAX Development with Appcelerator

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:45:00 EDT

Jeff Haynie will introduce you to Appcelerator’s open-source RIA platform. You will learn how Appcelerator has been able to help developers create AJAX-based RIAs in less than 1/3 of the time, with up to 90 percent less code, and with no Javascript or third-party toolkits.

SYS-CON Webcast - jMaki as an AJAX Mashup Framework

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:15:00 EDT

jMaki has evolved from giving developers the ability to sprinkle AJAX into their web apps easily to be a full AJAX framework. jMaki has evolved once again with the jMaki Webtop which lets you quickly create mashups using jMaki widgets that can interact with each other. The jMaki Webtop is based on a container widget that lets you drag and drop your favorite widgets and easily map them to your services or have them work together without having to write web pages. The jMaki Webtop also has a management service for configuring deploy widgets and mapping those widgets to your services. Also included is the ability to manage users and share a jMaki Webtop with everyone.

SYS-CON Webcast - Now Playing: Desktop Apps in the Browser!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:15:00 EDT

AJAX isn’t just for rich UIs and mashups anymore. Web 2.0 has infiltrated the enterprise workforce, and IT departments all around the world just like yours are feeling the pressure to make every back-office, call center, trading blotter, inventory management and systems performance application look and feel like iGoogle or MyESPN.com. Simply slapping on a few AJAX widgets will make these applications look cooler, but what about business logic, data integration and replicating the business processes?

SYS-CON Webcast - Enterprise Comet: Real-Time, Real-Time, or Real-Time Web 2.0?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:38:00 EDT

As much as we like the term real-time, it has over time become too saturated to lend itself any use to Web 2.0 technologies that really mean it. Question is; what do we actual mean with "real-time"? In what context is it used? And what impact will it have on your business? This webcast will clarify the definition of real-time in the context of Web 2.0 and what impact new emerging real-time Web 2.0 technologies will have on your enterprise over the next coming years.

ILOG To Exhibit At SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT

Neotys Named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:45:00 EDT

Neotys is a leader in easy-to-use, cost effective stress and load testing tools for Web 2.0 Applications. Since 2005, Neotys has been helping its clients in more than 40 countries to ensure their applications' reliability, performance and quality. NeoLoad, load testing solution for RIAs, ensures better efficiency to perform your tests faster, while providing pertinent analyses and full support for all new technologies. NeoLoad is one of the first web application testing tools to fully support Adobe Flex 3 and the AMF protocol. NeoLoad also perfectly handles other RIA applications that exchange data in text or XML formats over HTTP/S like AJAX, GWT or Silverlight applications.

AJAX World RIA Conference Early Bird Savings to Expire This Friday

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:45:00 EDT

Rich Internet Applications offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is still open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives.