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- Cisco Joins Eclipse Foundation
- Appcelerator Takes On Adobe AIR with Titanium
- Microsoft revising its attitude toward open source
- One brand new product and two major enhancements to the BSM stack – Vienna HP Software Universe 2008 – Making Business Service Management a Reality
- New Releases Expand Splunk and Zenoss
- LCDS BlazeDS and Spring « Anil Channappa’s Blog
Nice, extremely concise overview of the SpringSource/Adobe partnership and technology.
- Data-Driven Services With Silverlight 2 with John Papa
Podcast on book on hooking up Silverlight to backends.
- Technoracle (a.k.a. "Duane's World"): Building Service Clients With Flex and AIR (Improved) Course Online
This looks interesting.
- Rombla: powerful, online, WYSIWYG Flash-site builder – InsideRIA
A hosted RAD IDE for Flash Platform?
- JavaFX Video – Another Me Too Campaign in the Old, New Media War
Not liking the JavaFX video too much.
- SOAP vs REST: The war between simplicity and standards
A February 2007 Evans Data survey found a 37% increase in those implementing or considering REST, with 25% considering REST-Based Web Services as a simpler alternative to SOAP-based services. And that was last year, before social networking really exploded and the integration of Web 2.0 sites via REST-based services took over the face of the Internet.
- Novell reports leap in Linux revenues
"The company's Linux business, built on the success of Suse Linux, grew to $195m for the quarter."
- Tools to use in the Cloud
List of tools.
- America loses 1.9 million jobs in 11 months
- Apple spreads 300 million iPhone apps
I'm tellin' you: it's the return of actually paying for software.
- JBoss app server 5.0 released
- SugarCRM adds hooks to cloud data services
- Microsoft BizTalk gets virtualization links
- Twitter / James Governor: RT @stanleyyork: FriendFee …
"FriendFeed switched to the Amazon "Cloud Front" service…look at the photo URLs http://ff.im/-ftqU."
- The Way We'll Watch
Ooo! Tragic missed-PR opportunity for JavaFX. Still, no mention of Adobe, Microsoft, or any other RIA/video vendor.
- Gaps blight JavaFX early promise
"Here's Sun's chance to get it right second time around: to create a searchable online marketplace with point-and-click install of third-party libraries and widgets. A component ecosystem. Once again, Sun is leaving this vital aspect of the product to pure chance, no doubt hoping that a charitable third-party somewhere will handle this for them." BLAMO! See, buddy, it's all about the marketplace: enabling software developers to sell their software directly and fix up the micro-ISV revenue bleed from open source.
- (ab)Using the blue giant | Austin Metblogs
- Wal-Mart to Sell iPhone Later This Month: Reports
"Employees at various Wal-Mart stores told Reuters on Monday the retailer will sell the iPhone in a week or two, although a Wal-Mart spokeswoman said the retailer has 'made no official announcement" on offering the iPhone at this time.'" at $99. Dude, I'm totally buying my mom one.
- Appcelerator Titanium™ makes building desktop rich applications easy
- Ajaxian » Appcelerator Titanium: Breathing AIR for the Open Web
Super-detailed overview (and podcast) on Appcelerator's Titanium project, an AIR competitor.
- Identity 2.0 · Dick Hardt joins Microsoft
"I will have the title Partner Architect and will be working on consumer, enterprise and government identity problems. My open source, open web and digital community experience will continue to guide my thinking. For me, this is an opportunity to work on the identity problems I have been toiling over for the last six years, but now with massive resources."
- apophenia: I will be joining Microsoft Research in January
Holy crap! I totally missed this one.
- Google tests ActiveX alternative
Wow, they gotta be cringing at the ActiveX comparision.
- Twitter / Dick Hardt: is coming to America. http …
Dick Hardt goes to work for Microsoft.
- Adobe and SpringSource meet on RIA
- Texas Protax Austin, Inc.
Charlie Wood says these people help you save on your property taxes. OK, sounds good.
- Twitter / Robin Charney: Trying to get my head arou …
"Trying to get my head around my new job. Flash Platform marketing for all EMEA! So much to do!"
- Twitter / Jonathan Eunice: Verizon sent 1B text messa …
"Verizon sent 1B text messages in 2002. By 2004, 1B/month. Here in 2008, it will send 1B today alone. One device sent 96K texts/month."
- RightScale MySQL on EBS and Splunk Support | IT Management and Cloud Blog
"RightScale is pleased to announce our cooperation with Splunk to provide an integrated solution for searching and navigating all your logs and IT data in real time. RightScale users will soon have access to ServerTemplates and RightScripts for running Splunk within our automated cloud computing management platform."
- 3M cutting 2,300 jobs, trims forecast
Man, what are all these laid off people going to do about health-insurance. We better fix that shit in the states.
- MIX09 | Web Design and Development Conference, March 18 – 20, 2009
- Twitter / Matthias Zeller: @cote – That's right. We d …
"That's right. We decided to productize Genesis functionality as part of the LiveCycle product family. More info to come."
- An update to the AdWords alcohol policy
"This fall, we changed our policy around beer, for the first time allowing advertisements of its sale in the U.S. via AdWords. And starting today, in response to advertiser feedback we've received over the years, we'll permit the advertisement of hard alcohol and liqueurs that target the U.S." Man, I hope this means more cash for DrunkAndRetired.com.
- The Weekly RIA RoundUp for December 8 – InsideRIA
As always, the InsideRIA roundup is packed with all the relevant RIA news.
- Appcelerator Brings Web Applications to the Desktop with Titanium
- MultiScaleImage: Flex Deep Zoom Component — RTFM / Daniel Gasienica
"Ever since I published my proof of concept of Deep Zoom in Flash, many people from around the world got in touch with me and told me that they also wanted to play around with this technology. Therefore, for a couple of months now, I’ve been working on a framework for ZUIs and multi-scale images for Flash called OpenZoom. The framework is still work in progress and I won’t focus on it today. However, I promise you it will definitely be topic of many posts in the future."
- What Happened to Vertebra?
- Appcelerator launches open source platform for desktop apps
An open source competitor for AIR.
- BMC Software to cut 350 jobs, 6 pct of work force
- Microsoft releases open-source content management app
- Ted On Flash: MAX Sessions Online – Intro to Catalyst and Flex 4
- Aria Systems raises $10M more for online billing » VentureBeat
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