I'm the 'tech chair' of SYS-CON's 10th annual SOA and WebServices conference that will take place on June 5-6 in New York City. Last week I've invited Joel Spolsky to make a keynote speech at this event. Guess what, Joel has accepted my invitation! If you have a chance to attend this t...

Two of the hottest technologies to emerge in the past year, Ajax and Ruby on Rails, took center stage this past weekend at the ServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas. In fact, you could say that Ruby and Ajax have officially become an item. Yet, it seems the Ajax and Ruby convergence i...

Alacra, a provider of online business information solutions, has announced the launch of an Ajax-driven Keyword Search in the Alacra Store. This enhancement, combined with Alacra's interface, is designed to help business professionals search for and discover reports from all of the pre...

In what Netvibes calls 'another move towards the web desktop', the popular site has added a web storage module to its already impressive list of features. The new module is a collaborative project with Ajax storage site box.net. With the new module, netvibes.com users have a 1 GB har...

Paul Rademacher, creator of the HousingMaps.com mash-up that combined Craigslist with Google Maps, is a featured presenter at the Real-World AJAX Seminar, to be produced by SYS-CON Events at the San Jose Hilton on April 24.

Christophe Coenraets will demonstrate the Eclipse-based IDE for Flex - Flex Builder - as part of his presentation at the Real-World Ajax Seminar at the San Jose Hilton on April 24. He encourages attendees to 'see how Flex Enterprise Services enables advanced data uses for messaging, pu...

Jesse James Garrett is one of the true Ajax pioneers. He will present 'The Elements of User Experience' as the lead session at the upcoming Real-World Ajax Seminar at the San Jose Hilton on April 24. In this keynote presentation, Jesse will look at the convergence of technologies that ...

Allurent,the Rich Internet Applications for Commerce Company, announced that it has closed its first round of venture funding. Led by Polaris Venture Partners, the funding will be used to further develop and expand Allurent's suite of Ajax Rich Internet Applications (RIA) that are curr...

With Jesse James Garrett, Google's Adam Bosworth and Paul Rademacher, Christophe Coenraets, Yahoo!'s Eric Miraglia, Jouk Pleiter, Kevin Hakman, Vassil Terziev, Dion Hinchcliffe, Microsoft's Shanku Niyogi, Eric Pascarello, and David Temkin of Laszlo Systems, the 'Real-World AJAX' One-Da...

Flux 7.1's web-based Operations Console is now Ajax-enabled. The Operations Console graphically monitors jobs and workflows in near-real-time. Java developers and their operations staff use the Operations Console to watch over and control running jobs and workflows.

Telerik's new release introduces many key updates to the telerik set of UI controls, as well as streamlined Ajax interoperability across the whole suite. The updates empower ASP.NET developers to take the richness of desktop applications to the web and eliminate the complexities of wri...

Laszlo Systems announced the planned extension of OpenLaszlo to support the delivery of applications in browsers with or without a Flash plug-in. By the end of this year, developers using OpenLaszlo will have the option to deploy their applications using either Flash or DHTML).

Sourcio's free, online service will monitor websites, servers, and networks for its users. Ajax technology will make manually installed upgrades, patches, and security fixes unnecessary, while at the same time further enhancing ease of use, interactivity, and customization.

Want to extend AJAX? I this instructive Webcast you you'll see a number of demos and application building techniques that will show you how you can extend AJAX with Adobe Flex. You will also experience the Eclipse based IDE for Flex--Flex Builder--and see how Flex Enterprise Services e...

Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) was the rage at TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas, as keynoters and panelist offered predictions and expectations for the future of development on the Java platform. James Strachan, chief architect and co-founder of LogicBlaze, said, 'Ajax...

TedJob.com is a Website that meets the unique recruitment needs of colleges, universities and other academic institutions. It provides career services to employers, faculty members and job seekers.

SitePoint (sitepoint.com), provider of fun, practical and easy-to-understand content for web professionals, today announced the launch of 'The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks.' It provides working solutions that take full advantage of all that JavaScript has to...

LandMark Media, LLC is pleased to announce the release of NetJaxer. NetJaxer is a free and easy way to integrate Web 2.0 applications like Gmail, TadaList, Digg, Writely, Kiko, Meebo, financial sites, and other Ajax-based web programs right into Windows.

Innoopract, a founding member of the Eclipse Foundation and a provider of products and services for Eclipse introduced the Eclipse proposed project 'Rich Ajax Platform'(RAP). RAP offers an architecture and usage similar to the Rich Client Platform (RCP) and includes a library of compon...

InBoxer, a provider of language-based email filtering, has announced an outbound and inbound email monitoring appliance designed to stop data loss, protect privacy, and manage inappropriate employee behavior for organizations and departments with 5,000 or fewer employees.

JSP Controls Tag Library (the 'Library') provides the lifecycle for portlet-like JSP components. The Library does not require a portal engine or other central controller. The components built with the Library can be used in any JSP-based application.

Tools vendor Exadel Inc. unwrapped Visual Component Platform (VCP) 1.0. VCP is a framework designed to make it easier for developers to build business applications based on open-source and Java technologies. 'We're using JavaServer Faces and Ajax,' John Thompson, a project manager at r...

Bill Gates gave the keynote presentation that framed MIX06 for the next few days, which is really about the 'web experience' and 'beyond the browser'. He said the world is changing and should be more user centric rather than device centric. He discussed users' experiences from the pers...

At the opening day MIX06 keynote, 'The Next Web Now,' featured Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates discussing the myriad ways companies can use software to forge distinctively new types of customer connections, highlighting new technologies along the way that wil...

ThinkFree, provider of web-based office productivity software, now allows ThinkFree Office Online users the option of easily inserting images into a Write, Calc, or Show document from the wealth of publicly shared pictures at Flickr, the online photo management and sharing website

I just got back from the Real World AJAX seminar in NYC on Monday. Pretty good event with lots of good stories. One issue that caught my attention was the issue of how the back-end returned the data to AJAX applications. Most of the speakers preferred data, except for David Hansson fr...

TIBCO Software announced that Banorte and Toyota Services of Mexico have both selected TIBCO's business process management (BPM) platform, TIBCO Staffware Process Suite, as the standard throughout their respective organizations to facilitate better communication and collaboration acros...

TIBCO Software announced the availability of TIBCO General Interface version 3.1 Professional Edition, which includes enhanced features and a bold new licensing and pricing model. The latest version of TIBCO's award-winning AJAX development framework and tooling brings the industry's m...

David Heinemeier Hansson, the Danish-born wunderkind who featured as one of the top-billed speakers at SYS-CON's recent 'Real-World AJAX' One-Day Seminar in New York City, is described in this month's Wired as 'The Hottest Hacker on Earth.'

The first international 'AjaxWorld Conference & Expo' will debut on October 10-11, 2006, in Redwood City, California, just 10 minutes from the San Francisco airport. The world-beating conference program will provide developers, IT managers, and corporate decision makers with comprehens...

A process, not a technology, AJAX is changing the landscape of the Web. Armed with this book, you can become a part of that change. 'Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters' not only showcases the history, the process, and the inspiration, it also helps you design actual AJAX applicati...

It was a tiring but thrilling day yesterday in Times Square at the Real-World Ajax Seminar. There was an stellar line-up of speakers including the 'Father of Ajax' himself, Jesse James Garrett, Bill Scott, Ajax Evangelist for Yahoo!, Scott Dietzen, CEO of Zimbra, David Heinemeier Hans...

In his 'Looks Good Works Well' blog, Bill Scott had an entry on Friday, March 15, 2006, summarizing his impressions of the 'Real-World Ajax' conference, which took place on Monday, March 13, at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City. Mentioning several highlights of the day...

AJAX has become an increasingly popular tool to develop RIAs. With AJAX, as with many new technologies, developers often overlook core application issues such as error handling. While many current AJAX frameworks come with ways to handle errors, the built-in error-handling methods migh...

It's been a busy, busy week indeed in the Web 2.0 and Ajax space. Never mind the interesting discussions and news that came out this week on the Web, I've been traveling and indeed will be traveling to various Web 2.0-related events for the next week or so. Expect lots more coverage as...

Jesse James Garret, Father of the Term 'AJAX' and Founder of Adaptive Path, sits down with Jeremy Geelan

Upside Software, the global leader inContract Lifecycle Management software announced a major version release oftheir flagship product, UpsideContract.

JSP Controls Tag Library (the 'Library') allows building dual-mode JSP components that work in both AJAX and standard mode off the same codebase. The portlet-like components handle input and render output in decentralized manner, therefore a central controller or other coordinator like...

pragmaticObjects has released Pragmatic JPetStore, described by the company as the first Pet Store to 'focus on both Ajax and security at the same time'. The purpose is to demonstrate a very realistic secure Ajax Java implementation of the Sun Petstore blueprint.

NetSuite has launched NetSuite-Software Company Edition, specifically designed to manage a software business and the software customer life cycle. This edition of NetSuite includes new versions of NetSuite's renowned AJAX Dashboards that are specifically designed to give users real-tim...