December 20, 2006

The most popular AJAX frameworks

I'm actually a little bit surprised by the results of the Ajaxian.com 2006 Survey Results showing the most popular Ajax frameworks. I'm not so much surprised by the winners -- Prototype and Script.aculo.us -- but by some omissions, like SAJAX, and some distant finishers, like Google Web Toolkit.

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December 10, 2006

Ajax: what to companies want?

Just reading a short piece about Web Builder 2.0 Conference at Caesars Palace when a fact jumped out at me:

Companies are looking for frameworks to help them do Ajax apps, but they're demanding so many capabilities that no single framework (or even small set of frameworks) has emerged. Right now there are at least 40 Ajax frameworks in play.

My question is: what is it that companies want that's so difficult to provide?

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December 08, 2006

Ajax security issues

There's lots of talk about how Ajax causes a ton of security issues. Turns out, many who are paying attention already knew, that the problem is not with Ajax. Check out WhiteHat Security on Ajax.

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January 17, 2006

The reality of Web 2.0

well, I've finally given in and created a Web 2.0 category for this blog. I couldn't avoid it anymore. Unfortunately, there's just no better way to describe this category of discussion. What category, you may ask? Well, I mean the category of discussion that involves what is going on in the current phase of Web development, from tagging to user content to all of these other things that are coalescing around us. Ellyssa Kroski has an intersting look at the Hype and the Hullabaloo of Web 2.0, basically explaining what it is and what some of the controversy surrounding it involves. Also interesting is Dion Hinchcliffe's Five Great Ways to Harness Collective Intelligence, which really seems to be at the heart of the matter.

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