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Why Web2.0 Must Go
It's time that developers and web-based businesses realize that the term Web2.0 is doing more harm than good. For years now, the meaning of Web2.0 has been derided and debated while all along it has quietly acquired a meaning that colors the efforts of countless entrepreneurs and developers as something unwelcome and harmful. Read the post if you'd like to know what the meaning is, and PLEASE consider the proposed alternative!
SaaS and Cloud Computing - Mainframes come full-circle
Is SaaS and Clould computing all hype and no substance? While there is certainly a lot of hype around these, there are good and bad reasons to adopt these technologies on a case-by-case basis, as long as you remember that there is no silver bullet!
Is Self Submission Really that Bad?
A few months ago there was a submission to DZone, a niche site that I visit almost daily, that questioned the site’s users as to how they felt about self submissions on the site.
Killing Blog Comments - The Eradication Of Interaction
I blogged about the illusive social facade of web 2.0 before, things seem to be getting worse still. In a long awaited sign of life update, Roger Johansson (456bereastreet.com) proclaims he will be closing the comment sections on his articles, referring to the following article on blog comments. Not a good thing. At all.
Visual Analytics -- Programming meets Art
cool thing on visual analytics
A Web OS? Are You Dense? - Ted Dziuba
People are calling Google Chrome a "Web Operating System" and a "Cloud Operating System". Some are even calling it a Windows killer.
I think it's time to nip this horseshit in the bud, before it gets out of hand.
18 Awesome Photoshop Brushes
Adobe Photoshop Brushes that innovates the trends of graphics and logo designs. Best for art designs that makes your design more unique, custom and creative. There are several Photoshop brushes wich maybe helpful on your side. No need to create you own patterns or even style just to come up with custom graphics.
JavaScript, the language for them all!! (Jquery with gridview in asp.net 2.0)
Once a long time ago (in 80s) I think Assembly was considered the savior
In 90s the days of C++, Visual Basic 6.0, JAVA, PHP,… etc I think the savior was the C language
These days (WEB 2.0 days) all of the applications are moving to web using PHP J2EE, .NET 2005/2008, R on R and others. The common factor between them is they all need JavaScript
Google Chrome - the question people SHOULD ask...
Google Chrome has literally spangled the web the last 36 hours, and I have seen most questions being answered, again and again and again. Though the one question people SHOULD ask is yet to be both asked and answered, at least in my view...
Google Gmail: The Lawn Darts of the Internet
Who is at fault for the great Google doc sharing escapade?Vector Graphics for Web Design
Here are FREE vector graphics for web design.State of the Semantic Web: Know Where to Look
Those looking for evidence of progress on the Semantic Web do not have to look far. Several major projects and companies are embracing the vision and technology stack like never before.Ylastic is now live!
An intuitive and powerful user interface for managing S3, EC2, SQS and SimpleDB, along with monitoring, alerts, reporting, and other goodies. If you are developing your applications using AWS, spend your valuable time building the app and not worrying about the minutiae of the AWS environment.The Next Phase of the Internet
First there was the Internet, and then came the possibility of putting up web pages. People started making pages containing lists of other pages that they liked, and that's how you found those pages. Essentially, by word of mouth.Behind the Scenes at Facebook: Scaling Up FBChat Using Erlang
The most resource-intensive operation performed in a chat system is not sending messages. It is rather keeping each online user aware of the online-idle-offline states of their friends, so that conversations can begin.JavaFX Too Late...But Who Cares
These RIA technologies [AIR / Silverlight / JavaFX] are popular the same way all these Web Frameworks are popular. Everyone thinks they are cool. Everyone blogs about them. In the real world, no one really uses them. They are all designed for cookie cutter web applications which we all know don't really exist.10 Simple and Pleasing Logo Designs
10 Simple and Pleasing Logo Designs that inspires and captures our attention. Simplicity and Uniqueness is a lifetime investment for your business.Dzone Instead Of Digg
Some stories can never reach the first page of Digg. But they can do really well on Dzone...How EC2 completely transmogrifies your thinking !
Funny and hits the nail on the head. Appease the cron gods indeed.The Perfect Collision of Web 2.0 Marketing
Too often when digesting Social Media blogs, I read the same crap about how to take advantage of basic Social Media tools and methods to promote yourself or company. It's all the same crap about setting up a "listening post" by populating your google reader with tons of blog feeds about social media or using Twitter search tools like Summize or blog search tools like Technorai or just a good "advanced" and narrowed Google search to find where people are either talking about your brand or your niche.Inside the Cloud: 9 Sectors to Watch
Interesting categorization of cloud-enablers and leading vendors40+ Extremely Beautiful FONTS Hand-picked from deviantART
One of the most unusual source of Beautiful Fonts are those you can find on deviantART fonts gallery. Today we would like to present 40 incredible FONT which you can use for web or print design.WSO2 adds data services and security features in Mashup Server 1.5
WSO2 adds data services and security features in Mashup Server 1.5
Blue CSS Web Sites - Versatility of Blue
Blue is an amazingly versatile color. It can have various meanings and interpretations ranging from cool and calming to the sad and somber blues. I’ve decided to compile a few CSS web sites that make use of blue in a few different ways.3 Beautiful Religious CSS Websites
Now when I think of a religious web site, I think of a site made by some parish member in a real primitive web 1.0 style, but there are a few diamonds in the rough out there. Here are three well crafted CSS sites that all happen to be for religious groups.What If Google Suddenly Stops Working?
People tend to complain about the Microsoft monopoly, but they forget that they depend on the company by the name of Google ;-)!My Mixed Feelings about Ruby
There’s a lot of features of Ruby that I like, but there are some that just drive me nuts like blocks not taking blocks and the ampersand operator. Raganwald did a great job of explaining blocks, procs, and the ampersand in this blog post: Explanation of Ruby’s Unary operator. I came away with the feeling, “Wow! It took that much explanation just to tell how to send blocks around?” If blocks were first-class citizens, Ruby would be more elegant.Facebook: Needle in a Haystack: Efficient Storage of Billions of Photos
An excellent talk that I really enjoyed. I used to lead a much smaller service that also used a lot of NetApp storage and I recognized many of the problems Jason mentioned. Throughout the introductory part of the talk I found myself thinking they need to move to a cheap, directly attached blob store. And that’s essentially the topic of remainder of the talk.
30+ Outstanding Character Illustrations in Modern Web Design
Vector characters can establish a memorable image of your site in the reader’s mind. Here is an amazing collection of over 30 Vector illustrated websites.Microsoft says you need to change how you are building your applications
Cloud computing and multi-core CPU's are forcing us to change the way we think about writing software. Gone are the days of simply depending on faster machines to build more ambitious applications. New programming paradigms will be necessary to use these new tools.Your MOM Is The Future Of The Web: WebNext
Interesting article that discussed the possible next evolution of web apps.