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The Third Order of Order
I'm thoroughly enjoying David Wein berger's Everything Is Miscell aneous (The Power of the New Digital
Testing Velocity Part 2 - Why do we test?
A couple weeks ago, I began a series on keeping your test suite fast and effective. I now am going
Aptana Jaxer: ser ver-side Ajax
Aptana released Jaxer: the first ever Ajax server... you got that right, ser ver-side Ajax ... the co
App Engine and Java
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GoogleAppE ngine -Not Delivering On the Promise So Far
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Aptana Jaxer: server-side Ajax
Aptana released Jaxer: the first ever Ajax server... you got that right, server-side Ajax ... the concept is pretty interesting, a server-side API that wraps for client-side Ajax app to better optimize it and allows you to interface with the file sys
Speaking at the NYCFUG
I will be speaking at the New York ColdFusion User Group this Wednesday, April 16, with the topic of "AJAXify Your ColdFusion Applications". I promise it will be fun, a good learning experience, and perhaps we may even go out afterwards and
ColdFusion 8.0.1 Ajax Improvements
Adobe ColdFusion 8 Update 1 (8.0.1) was released April 3rd (most of you knew already). The good and safe news is that it seems to work fine... nothing broke with the update.What was updated? You can get the full list here, but I will concentrate only
ColdExt: Another ColdFusion wrapper for EXT
After blogging about Dan's great EXT cf wrapper, I ran across another one today: ColdExt. It looks great as well, so how about Dan and Justin join efforts instead of doubling work...?
Ext 2.0 Beta 1
People, listen up ... Ext 2.0 Beta 1 was released today ... for those of you still not familiar with Ext, it is what powers the ColdFusion 8 Ajax UI: Windows, Menus, Grids, Trees, etc. With the 2.0 release you have an amazing power to build desktop-l
ColdFusion is not dead (or even dying)
It's not dead (or even dying), it's just...Not dead, just ... stealthyNot dead, just ... getting the AJAX treatmentNot dead, just ... in an upgrade cycleRead more at a new ComputerWorld rectifying story.
jQuery UI released
jQuery UI is a set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications. The core of the library revolves around different mouse interactions,
jQuery v1.2: Major new release, sneak peak at jQuery UI
[From Rey Bango's Blog] Hot on the heels of the jQuery v1.1.4 release, John Resig and the jQuery team put the pedal to the metal and announced their newest release, jQuery v1.2. This is a massive new release of jQuery that's been a long time in the
AjaxCFC Source Control Repo Moved
Since I just moved AjaxCFC to its own homepage, I moved the SVN repository from RIAForge and created a Trac project. If you had RIAForge's SVN mapped, please update your records: ajaxcfc.com/svn . I maintained the same structure and history, though I
AjaxCFC & jQuery need Rey Bango
We all know, and if you didn't, you do now ... Rey Bango is a jQuery evangelist, now part of Ajaxian.com, and long time user of AjaxCFC ... Rey and I have previously discussed adding him to the AjaxCFC team, so I'm proud to announce, he's in ... Rey'
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Oracle Goes After Salesforce
CRM News Desk wrote: Oracle zeroed in on Salesforce.com the other day when it rolled out the latest version of Siebel's rechristened on-demand software, now called Oracle CRM On Demand 15 and targeted up to run on Blackberries with fashionable social networking and collaborat...
Doesn't Oracle Have Its Own Virtualization Scheme?
Oracle News Desk wrote: Doesn't Oracle have its own virtualization scheme? Isn't it Xen? Well, Oracle's soon-to-be takeover, BEA - the feds just okayed the merger - said Wednesday that it had teamed with VMware to deliver Java virtualization to the enterprise.
Saleforce.com for Sale to Oracle at $75 a Share!
Adam wrote: Maureen, You're a week late on the story and your title is misleading. This is a rumor that was started last weekend, possibly to drive up Salesforce.com stock. The rumor was never confirmed and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) did increase in value somewhere in the ran...
Oracle BEA - TIBCO Next?
TIBCO News Desk wrote: With BEA gone to Oracle, the speculators have turned to TIBCO Software, figuring the smaller middleware company is likely to be swallowed by some bigger fish. Its stock shot up better than 11% on the news that Oracle was buying BEA. Its market cap is $1.4 billion.
Sun Buys MySQL, Gets Oracle for an Enemy
Sun News Desk wrote: Sun, Oracle's sometimes best friend, turned into an Oracle competitor this morning when it said it was buying MySQL, the open source database that's part of the famous LAMP stack.
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