October 2008 - Sessions @ AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West

2008: Decision Year for RIAs - October 20-22, 2008 San Jose

October 2008
Technical Sessions Include

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Farata Systems' Yakov Fain to Present at SYS-CON's SOA World Conference & Expo

By SOA World Magazine News Desk

We are entering an era of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and enhancing the user experience of consumers of the services becomes an important part in designing and implementing SOA. But if you decide to develop rich clients, you'll be facing the dilemma - which way to go - remai

May. 13, 2008 11:30 AM

AJAX World - Appcelerator Building Out the RIA Open Source Community

By Jeremy Geelan

'We're dedicated to building the largest open-source community dedicated to RIAs, breaking down the barriers between traditional preferred languages, programming models and solutions,' says the co-founder & CEO of Appcelerator, Jeff Haynie, in this Exclusive Q&A with Jeremy Geela

May. 13, 2008 10:00 AM

AJAX World - How To Launch a Successful Technology Start-Up

By Jeremy Geelan

'Ten years ago,' Coach Wei tells Jeremy Geelan in this exclusive interview with AJAXWorld Magazine, 'I was as a poor graduate student naive enough to start a company at the bottom of the 'dot-bomb' burst. I learned so much coping with the 'nuclear winter,' raising $18M in financi

May. 13, 2008 09:00 AM

JavaOne 2008: Sun Talks Up its Late-to-the-Party AIR-Silverlight Rival

By Maureen O'Gara

At Java One this week Sun has been selling its year -old-but-still-upcoming - and definitely late-to-the-party - Adobe AIR- and Microsoft Silverlight-competitive JavaFX Rich Client environment as a potential revenue-generator capable of putting ads on mobile applications and JavaF

May. 13, 2008 07:00 AM

frevvo Empowers Businesses to Create RIAs With New Live Forms Software

By RIA News Desk

frevvo announced Live Forms software which enables users and developers to easily create rich AJAX forms with built-in business capabilities. Live Forms provides a complete Web-based design experience that can be embedded into any application and is ideal for Enterprise Social So

May. 12, 2008 03:15 PM

AJAXWORLD CONFERENCE LIVE NEWS COVERAGE

AJAX World - Skyway Software Announces RIA Developer Contest

By RIA News Desk

According to Sean Walsh, President and CEO of Skyway Software, 'Our Skyway Community is thriving and our members are very talented. We truly look forward to their RIAs submittals and Skyway Builder extensions and are excited that all of the contributions will benefit the entire Skyway

May. 9, 2008 07:30 AM

SYS-CON Media Distributes Collectible "Virtualization Journal Mugs" at JavaOne

By Virtualization News Desk

Virtualization Journal now reaches more than 60,000 online readers with monthly digital editions and weekly newsletters. The premier issue of the magazine's print edition, which debuts on May 6, 2008, at JavaOne in San Francisco, as a media sponsor of this event, will be available on n

May. 8, 2008 06:45 PM

AJAX World - Cooking CRUD with Flex and BlazeDS

By Yakov Fain

In today's cooking class you'll add to your cookbook a delicious recipe. It's quick and won't cost you a dime. I'm sure you've been in one of these situations when you have unexpected guests arriving in 20 minutes and need to make a good impression. Let's create an application that

Apr. 28, 2008 10:15 AM

AJAX World - Curl Launches Adobe AIR Competitor

By RIA News Desk

Curl announced the beta release of Curl Nitro, the code name for an extension of the Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform which offers enhanced desktop capabilities required by today's enterprises. The Nitro extension simplifies the process of installing and managing Curl appl

Apr. 22, 2008 06:30 PM

Is the Silverlight Adoption Rate Artificially Inflated?

By Kevin Hoffman

Silverlight 2.0 is a freaking phenomenal RIA development environment and I would actually, at this point, put the development experience in Silverlight 2.0 above and beyond Flex. I can do more faster and have it look better and run more efficiently in Silverlight 2.0 than I can in Flex

Apr. 21, 2008 05:45 PM

AJAX World - Adobe Flex 4 Is Shaping Up

By Yakov Fain

Adobe has published their first plan of what should be included in Flex 4 that is scheduled to release next year. Since Flex is an open source product, you have a say in this too. Obviously, there's a hope that upcoming Thermo release will bring together developers and designers. I'm c

Apr. 21, 2008 05:45 PM

Silverlight 2 - Adobe Flex Killer Is on Its Way!

By Kevin Hoffman

Silverlight 2.0 kicks ass and I can't wait to start dropping more hardcore blog posts regarding it. Scott Guthrie's tutorials are a fantastic place to start. The issue I have, however, is that all of the tutorials assume you have installed Silverlight 2.0 tools for VS 2008. There is a

Apr. 13, 2008 11:00 AM

Early Notes on GoogleApps

By Dave Winer

Now, what Google announced is really exciting! I'm not kidding. It's even better than I hoped. Yes, it's only Python, but IBM's PC-DOS was only BASIC and Pascal when it first came out, and it didn't matter. Yeah, I preferred C, but I coded in Pascal because that's what you had to do to

Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM

Adobe Wants to Be on the iPhone and Will "Reorganize" Its Mobile and Device Business Unit

By Maureen O'Gara

Rumor has it that in the next few weeks Adobe is going to 'reorganize' its Mobile and Device business unit where its Jobs-criticized Flash Lite lives and send the engineers to go work with the larger platform effort and Flash proper, which Jobs has also criticized. Presumably, Adobe is

Apr. 7, 2008 02:45 PM

AJAXWorld and Bear Stearns

By Yakov Fain

This was the first time I've included into the list of the RIA players a little known product called Curl. Even though this language was created in MIT, it's mainly used in Japan. I had a chance to spend an hour with Curl folks today, and it seems that this language may be a good fit

Apr. 7, 2008 09:00 AM