You probably know how I love sys-con magazines, especially the CFDJ… now there’s a new player that you can’t miss: ADJ! There’s a new magazine out specialized on AJAX! How cool is that? The first issue will be out soon, but for now you can check out all the latest news at http://ajax.sys-con.com/
Enjoy.
Business software maker Oracle won permission from the European Commission on Thursday to buy rival Siebel Systems in a $5.8 billion deal.
Since January, Oracle has closed seven acquisitions, including its recently completed $10.6 billion hostile takeover of PeopleSoft.
If the deal closes, Oracle--the No. 1 database maker--will be running neck-and-neck with SAP to lay claim as the world's biggest CRM software seller, market researchers IDC and AMR have said.
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Yahoo put up a page dedicated to JavaScript / AJAX developers: JavaScript™ Developer Center... it focuses on AJAX, XMLHttpRequest, JSON, Web Services, and some other gadgets. It is a little bias of course, it only focuses and includes in tools you need to integrate with Yahoo's AJAX API's, but it's still a nice resource with plenty of examples to expand your mind.
For those business people out there that like catchy phrases and buzzwords, this one really caught my attention when reading about web 2.0 the O'Reilly web site.
Leverage customer-self service and algorithmic data management to reach out to the entire web, to the edges and not just the center, to the long tail and not just the head.
Web 2.0 Companies should adopt the following principles:
I just uploaded a new release of ajaxCFC with some really nice additions.
ajaxCFC now supports built-in improve security, enforcing get or posts verbs, and also optionally checks for the http-referer to match your site. These two checks will prevent a third party to monitor http packets and try to call them manually by pasting the full ajax request to a browser.
I personally always Firefox and Live HTTP headers debug my ajax applications and I recommend using get methods and allow blank referers for development environments; but you need to be able to lock it down for production.
And talking about development, don't you hate when you think you're doing everything right, but there is no way to see what the server is getting out of your ajax request? I added some debugging abilities too that write into a debug file.
More details on the implementation of these updates are available in the documentation inside the download.
Web 2.0 is the future, and AJAX is the core element for Web 2.0 … you may be wondering what it is, how can you use it, or where is it going.
I was honored to be invited to speak at the first ‘Real World Ajax Seminar’ in NY, next to many other AJAX authorities including Jesse James Garrett, aka the Father of AJAX.
For more information, please click the image below.
Incredible, Adobe’s profit jumped 38% this quarter, but yet, Chief Financial Officer Murray Demo resigned today to spend more time with his family and a search for his replacement had begun; on a side note, after acquiring Macromedia, Adobe is laying off about 10% of their personnel, equivalent to about 650 or 700 jobs.
I’m not into stocks, but it’s expected that the revenue will continue to grow about 30% for Q1 2006.
There two main JavaScript frameworks used for Web 2.0 and Ajax are Prototype and DRW.
This was a week full of releases; Prototype 1.4 final was released today (although they haven’t updated their site yet) and it’s required to script.aculo.us 1.5, which was also released today. Script.aculo.us is used to Ruby on Rails, which was released this week.
A new version of ajaxCFC with increased built in security will be released next week.
I just came across a really nice ajax portal example … Its an open source (LGPL) server designed for creating ajax web apps via servlets, Python server pages, or XML-RPC.
You can check out the demo here, login with demo/demo. I really like the preloaders, and the ability to natually right-click anything just like a desktop application.
