Yesterday I sat down and talked with Entellium, an on-demand CRM company that has recently gone away from a purley browser-based model and moved into a desktop smart client application.
The term "Web 2.0" can mean different things depending on who you ask. Most, however, would agree that social networking, collaboration, community and rich Internet applications all play into the concept, writes Exadel CEO Fima Katz.
Sun Microsystems lost the first Rich Internet Application (RIA) war when Macromedia (now part of Adobe) ate its applets for lunch following a schoolyard brawl. Now Sun has a second chance.
Adobe is preparing to open source development tools that will enable existing desktop and server software to run in web browsers, according to reports.
The Ruby on Rails site bills its eponymous project as "Web development that doesn't hurt." I'm not really sure what that means, but it certainly sounds good.
I've seen several blogs and comments in news stories recently that boil down to the observation that programmers gravitate either to Python or Ruby for scripting, but not both.
The Ruby on Rails site bills its eponymous project as "Web development that doesn't hurt." I'm not really sure what that means, but it certainly sounds good.
For developers of RIAs (rich Internet applications), Adobe's announcement that Google and Yahoo will soon be able to index text within Flash movies should come as welcome news.
Adobe, Google and Yahoo join to make Flash content searchable. Adobe, Google, Yahoo immediately makes flash and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player on thousands of Web sites visible to search from thousands of Web sites.