AJAX

Amazon’s Answer to SQL Azure - Amazon Relational Database Service

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:30:00 EDT

Today Amazon released its answer to SQL Azure, the hosted cloud database offered by Microsoft. The newest service form Amazon, the Amazon Relational Database Service, or Amazon RDS for short, now in beta, makes it easier for you to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. You get direct database access without [...] Related posts:

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Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services wirth NHibernate

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:15:00 EDT

I am having a blast with the series where I am updating my simple Mix 09 Business Application demo. In this part, I wanted to explore one of the most popular data access solution for .NET – NHibernate. Many customers finds that the flexibility of NHibernate makes it easier for them to build maintainable and testable applications. As an aside, I think NHibernate is an excellent example of the vibrant open source community on .NET that I’d like to support.

AJAXWorld RIA Conference - Speaker Mike Girouard's JavaScript Design Patterns, #1

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:52:00 EDT

I would like to begin this special series in the run-up to AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in October with one of the most useful and commonplace patterns in my code. Arguably, this can be considered a feature of the JavaScript language rather than a design pattern; however, when considering the contexts in which it is applied, I regard it as a pattern. Self-invocation (also known as auto-invocation) is when a function executes immediately upon it’s definition. This is a core pattern and serves as the foundation for many other patterns of JavaScript development.

Where Are RIA Technologies Headed in 2008?

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:45:00 EST

I am always being told off by i-technologists for quoting Picasso as having said that computers are useless. But I still love his reasoning: 'Because they can only give you answers.' Picasso, like AJAXWorld Magazine, liked questions. So we thought we would share with you what some of the world's leading rich Internet application pioneers are thinking may be the next questions that we need to see answered. From that, readers can themselves infer: where is AJAX headed next?

Rich Internet Applications: Has Microsoft Finally Seen the (Silver) Light?

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:15:00 EST

In response to the proliferation of other frameworks used to create rich Internet applications such as Flex from Adobe (formerly from Macromedia) and AJAX-based frameworks, Microsoft Silverlight was recently introduced. All three of these applications, as well as the others on the market, enable a web developer to create an interface on a web page that is much more robust than traditional HTML-based pages once were.

New Device Development Features in Visual Studio 2008

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 19:30:00 EST

Roughly two years ago, when I was writing an article on 'New Features for Device Developers in Visual Studio 2005' that was published in the August 2005 issues of this magazine, our program management team was already busy shaping the next release of the product, which is soon to be released as Visual Studio 2008. We spent a lot of time talking to our major customers and reviewing the feedback we got on blogs and questions on forums on newsgroups to identify what enhancements/features would be most useful to our device developers. One thing that surfaced was that device developers needed more help when it came to testing their applications efficiently. Whether that meant testing on multiple devices or under varying conditions or simply being able to write unit tests, they clearly needed help getting applications to market faster by reducing the testing time.

Latest Iteration of .NET Framework Released: 3.5

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:00:00 EST

Microsoft this week announced that Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 have released to manufacturing (RTM) and are now available for MSDN subscribers to download, and will be available soon to Microsoft's customers through its various other channels. Visual Studio 2008 has new support for Web server communication techniques for AJAX/JSON, the company noted.

We've taught Adobe Flex to talk to Microsoft Excel

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:15:00 EDT

This sample application shows the data exchange between Adobe Flex and Microsoft Excel

Google Maps! AJAX-Style Web Development Using ASP.NET

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:45:00 EDT

In the past few months, the design pattern of combining Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) to develop highly interactive Web applications has been growing in popularity. High-profile Web applications such as Google Maps and A9 are currently leveraging the combination of these technologies to produce rich client-side user experiences. The individual technologies that compose AJAX are not recent developments; they have been around for some time and have been continuously updated and improved. However, it is the recent confluence of these technologies that is leading to interesting possibilities.

As IBM Jumps On Board, There's Just No Stopping AJAX Now

Thu, 02 Feb 2006 06:15:00 EST

'We've seen the Web moving from a publishing paradigm to an e-business paradigm to an AJAX paradigm.' That is the considered verdict of IBM Software Group's CTO of Emerging Internet Technologies, David Boloker. And he's right: AJAX is here, it's growing, and it's (potentially) the biggest thing to hit the i-Technology world since Java.

AJAX and Rich Internet Applications Presented by ClearNova's Steve Benfield

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:30:00 EST

'Though it's been around for a while, AJAX is now a hot topic in the application developer community because it brings cross-platform rich user interfaces to Web applications without having to use products like Microsoft .NET or Macromedia,' said Steve Benfield. Benfield explains what all the AJAX fuss is about, dispel some myths and advise how best to take advantage of the trend during his SYS-CON.TV Webinar.

What Are the Pitfalls to Implementing an AJAX Framework?

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:45:00 EDT

'Though it's been around for a while, AJAX is now a hot topic in the application developer community because it brings cross-platform rich user interfaces to web applications without having to use products like Microsoft .NET or Macromedia,' said Steve Benfield as he announced that his September 27 session at the Austin Java User's Group will be called 'Injecting Life into Boring Web Applications with AJAX.' Benfield plans, he says, to explain what all the AJAX fuss is about, dispel some myths and advise how best to take advantage of the trend.

TIBCO Releases AJAX-Based Development Solution "General Interface 3.0"

Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:45:00 EDT

The new Tibco General Interface 3.0 consists of two components, Tibco General Interface Framework and Tibco General Interface Builder, which together enable developers to deliver applications that run completely in a standard Web browser, the company says. This installation-free framework eliminates the need for client-side software, end-user plug-ins, ActiveX controls or Java applets.