Tag Archives: AJAX

Secure mashups via SMash

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Bob Sutor

Some of my IBM colleagues in the emerging technologies asked me to mention something they introduced last week – SMash, for Secure Mashups. The basic idea is this. In Web 2.0 people frequently use AJAX components or services from several … Continue reading →

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Virtual Technical Briefing in Second Life: Web 2.0

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Bob Sutor

My IBM colleagues in developerWorks asked me to share the following: Join IBM developerWorks in Second Life for a virtual Web 2.0 Briefing on June 21, 2007 at 12:30 pm EDT/ 9:30 am PDT. During this briefing from IBM developerWorks … Continue reading →

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Some new things from IBM alphaWorks

Posted on May 3, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Every once in a while I highlight a few of the technologies showing up at the IBM alphaWorks site. I saw this information in the latest alphaWorks newsletter, which you can subscribe to by sending a blank email to alphaworks-subscribe@ibm.email-publisher.com. … Continue reading →

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Web(2.0)Sphere?

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Bob Sutor

Some of my IBM colleagues have asked that I give you a pointer to some cool new AJAX/Web 2.0/WebSphere technology called the Ajax for IBM WebSphere� Platform. The intro on the site says: The Ajax for IBM WebSphere� Platform Early … Continue reading →

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Student paper management via online writing and grading

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Bob Sutor

My daughter Katie uses OpenOffice for her high school papers and saves her papers in ODF. She is one cool kid, if you ask me. I did not force this choice upon her. In August when I spoke at the … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-10-12

Posted on October 12, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Portland points desktop Linux at $10 billion market “Nearly a year in the making, the OSDL and freedesktop.org today announced general availability of Portland 1.0, the first set of common interfaces for GNOME and KDE desktops.” (tags: linux … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-10-05

Posted on October 5, 2006 by Bob Sutor

AJAX IBM Expands Open Source Contributions to Further Enable Web 2.0 Adoption @ AJAXWORLD MAGAZINE “Mr. Boloker also announced that IBM would make new technology contributions to the open source community to speed the adoption and growth of Web 2.0 … Continue reading →

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Teach your children about open. Even better, show them.

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Bob Sutor

I’ve been in Raleigh the last two days participating in the K-12 Open Technologies Summit at the William & Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. It was quite intense but this wasn’t a group singalong … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-09-07

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Open Source Open source ‘gaining enormous momentum’ ‘The open-source software “phenomenon” extends far beyond Linux, and is “gaining enormous momentum,” IDC reports.’ (tags: opensource) Ohio LinuxFest 2006 looms “The Ohio LinuxFest 2006, set for Sept. 30 at the Greater Columbus … Continue reading →

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Day 2: Slowing it down and thoughts on maps

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Bob Sutor
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Books I bought while at OSCON

Posted on July 28, 2006 by Bob Sutor

OSCON is one of the “heavier” conferences to attend, especially since it is so tempting to buy books at good discounts and then have to transport them home. Many of the tech authors are also at the conference, making it … Continue reading →

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3 quick OSCON notes

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Adam Trachtenberg of eBay just said in the “PHP Lightning Talks” session that last quarter 52% of all all eBay item postings were done via the web services interfaces, versus manually. [Update: See Adam's clarification in the comments.] Chrs DiBona’s … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-06-18

Posted on June 18, 2006 by Bob Sutor

ClockLink.com Clocks for your website. I had never heard of them, but you might find them interesting. This is not an endorsement. (tags: blogging) Consortiuminfo.org – ODF, MS and MASS: Now you see the dots (and now you don’t) “Two … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-06-10

Posted on June 10, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Open Source / Spreadsheets Bricklin Updates Collaborative Spreadsheet “Software Developer Dan Bricklin Updates Concept for Collaborative Spreadsheet Program” (tags: spreadsheet opensource) Socialtext to distribute wiki spreadsheet tool “Social software company Socialtext will redistribute and co-develop WikiCalc, an online collaborative spreadsheet … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-05-23

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Bob Sutor

AJAX and Open Source OpenAJAX Alliance Sets Road Map (tags: ajax) Java and Open Source Sun still not answering the call to open source Java | InfoWorld “Truthfully, there were no champagne corks popped here at the InfoWorld offices following … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-05-18

Posted on May 18, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Lotus Notes and ODF IBM Updates Lotus Notes “For the roughly 125 million Lotus Notes users worldwide, this means being able to work in ODF as well as in Microsoft Office. This is important because, in certain environments (Massachusetts comes … Continue reading →

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Jon Udell picks up the presentation software thread

Posted on May 17, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Last month I posted a couple of entries about alternatives to commercial presentation graphics programs that we are very familiar with using (“Where’s the killer open source presentation software?” and “More on presentation software – look at Opera Show“). The … Continue reading →

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links for 2006-05-13

Posted on May 13, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Open Source/Linux tecosystems: Debian, Ubuntu and the Future of Linux Steve O’Grady’s take on the changing Linux landscape and its implications. Must read. (tags: linux ubuntu) WordPress Delicious Cached++ (para WordPress) WordPress plug-in to display recent del.icio.us tagged articles. It … Continue reading →

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IBM SOA News

Posted on April 3, 2006 by Bob Sutor

There was a bunch of SOA announcements from IBM today, so here are a few pointers to reading material. I’ll update this as more is published. Press Release: “New IBM Software and Services Help Drive Customer Adoption of Service Oriented … Continue reading →

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ODF and web office suites

Posted on February 22, 2006 by Bob Sutor

People often ask me why I think the OpenDocument Format situation is any different now compared to where we were 15 or 20 years ago when there were SGML formats and specifications for documents that could have become at least … Continue reading →

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Bray, Wood, AJAX

Posted on February 15, 2006 by Bob Sutor

Tim Bray has an entry over on his ongoing blog about AJAX and how it enables certain optimizations that just straight up make sense. The other reason I mention this is because Tim is the husband of Lauren Wood, the … Continue reading →

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XForms

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Bob Sutor

The pieces are falling into place. See James Governor’s entry “Is XForms the killer app for enterprise AJAX?”. I added a comment there, but we clearly think that XForms is one of the key open standards and game-changers of the … Continue reading →

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Open AJAX

Posted on February 2, 2006 by Bob Sutor

This is news from yesterday, but you might have heard about the Open AJAX cooperative effort we and a lot of AJAX luminaries kicked off yesterday. This interview with my colleague David Boloker and others is a good place to … Continue reading →

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AJAX and Eclipse

Posted on January 20, 2006 by Bob Sutor

There’s some new news and information about Eclipse and AJAX. First, the news. eWeek is reporting that IBM has proposed the AJAX Toolkit Framework Project to Eclipse. See the article “IBM Proposes Open-Source AJAX Project to Eclipse”. Second, there are … Continue reading →

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