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Wednesday, Jun 21 2006

We love the humble Dean Wiebe for posting this little tidbit. If you've ever sat back and wondered just how many hours (days?) of your life you've wasted, waiting for Adobe Acrobat to load, this is a tip for you.

Dean kindly lays out the 4 simple steps in a recent blog post. Thank you Dean. You deserve at least a moment of silence from the PDF-consuming masses today.

Magnolia 3.0 is out the door. A "commercial open-source" project, Magnolia integrates web content management (CMS) and document management (DMS) through a single, web-based, AJAX-powered user interface.

Version 3.0 brings together 3+ years of research and development and is one of the few CMS products to support the JSR-170 content repository standard.

Hell, we love AJAX, but come on, there's a heck of a lot of people desperately in need of a good old 1999 technology spike in the arm. The term "Web 2.0" in many ways smacks of just this desperation.

That's why, when I read Galbraith's "The seven deadly sins of Web 2.0", I felt compelled to share. And having suffered a bit at this one, I think my favorite was #5, "Avoiding tables, when they are the best solution".

If you're really in a cynical mood (temporarily of course), you could also check out the Web 2.0 Generator, where in a matter of seconds you can generate an entire Web 2.0 Company.

Hey that's not bad. Sadly, they did build their generator with ASP.NET, which is like sooooo not on rails man.

Monday, Jun 19 2006

Sun has announced its support of the AJAX application model by joining the OpenAJAX Alliance, as well as the Dojo Foundation. Sun plans to actively participate in these two communities, driving open standards for AJAX programming and increase interoperability across AJAX technologies.

In an age when technology is everywhere, those who understand how technology works are easy to find. Those who understand how people work are much harder to find.

Thursday, Jun 15 2006

Public beta 5 of EditGrid was announced today. Some say it tops Google Spreadsheets.

EditGrid features include: Real-time update (see changes immediately when someone modifies your spreadsheet), Full keyboard navigation, 500+ functions, Import and export in all common formats (MS Excel, CSV, HTML, Gnumeric, Lotus, OpenOffice, …), Permalinks for addressing your spreadsheets, Access control, Post to Blog, and Cross-browser support for IE 6.0+ and all Gecko-based Browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, etc).

View a highly appropo demonstation of EditGrid.

Oracle and Open Text announce that Open Text, a leader in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space, will offer content management solutions on the Oracle Content Database. The decision extends Open Text’s recently launched enterprise solutions framework.

Tuesday, Jun 13 2006

Oh how the excitement of keeping tabs on technology thrills us. To quote S. “Soma” Somasegar, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President of the Developer Division:

“The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn’t convey this. … With this in mind we have decided to rename WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0.”

Microsoft has indicated that the change won’t affect delivery schedules of either Windows Vista or the .NET Framework 3.0 itself.

More info.