Articles by RIA News Desk

How Linked Data and AJAR Changes Everything

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:45:00 EDT

The web has evolved into a structured data space of loosely connected databases, enabling granular data access-by-reference to web-accessible entities, courtesy of HTTP. This evolution and the emergence of AJAX-based RIA technologies lay the foundation for a new generation of libraries, widgets, and frameworks, that together embrace and extend enterprise data access practices of yore.

AJAX-Powered Features in CoaguTrak Optimized With Google Chrome Browser

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

Medmatics, LLC, a leading vendor of on-demand, anticoagulation software for private practices and hospital settings, today announced its support for the Google Chrome Browser, a new open source browser intended to make the Web faster, safer, and easier. As the first anticoagulation management software application with native support for Firefox 3.0 (announced August), CoaguTrak continues to focus on innovation around the latest browser technology and is also the first anticoagulation software to support Google Chrome.

iPhone & Preparing Your Brand for the Mobile Web Experience

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

As the mobile web matures, we see more and more people running around airports with their mobile devices in hand, searching for hotel rooms, reading the news, or just playing video games. People are more connected with their mobile phone today than any other electronic device they use. What was once a nice-to-have is now the norm, and is quickly becoming an integral part of our culture and society. But how do you connect with users through mobile websites and create exceptional experiences that are both functional and captivating?

User Experience and RIAs: How Does It All Come Together?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

RIAs provide the promise of an excellent User experience, but the ultimate success of the UX is driven more by the skill of the developer than the tool selection itself. This session will discuss the foundation and importance of the application of cognitive science techniques to the process of designing and building a rich web application.

User Generated Content: Developing UGC Sites that Scale

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

User Generated Content sites (e.g. YouTube, Flickr, etc.) require a different approach to implementation strategy versus the more traditional web development models. Attention must be paid to scalability, storage, content distribution, digital rights management, reporting and monetization. This session will focus on these challenges and the various solutions available to developers to help address them. We will discuss latest technology innovations (for example Amazon Web Services) that make it easier to build such sites today.

AJAX and Cloud Computing

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

Cloud computing has recently grown to encompass hosted database services. The idea behind 'Database as a Service' (DaaS) is to side step the complexity and cost often associated with running your own database. Unfortunately for AJAX programmers, it is not easy to access a DaaS directly from JavaScript. To solve security issues, AJAX apps need to talk to an intermediate server that acts as a proxy between the web client and the database. This means that the AJAX developer has to develop lots of server-side code that coordinates between the proxy and the database.

Learn Server-Side, PHP-Generated AJAX

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

As web-based applications are pushing the "Rich User Experience" envelope, AJAX is quickly becoming a standard front-end for any PHP application. But unfortunately as PHP applications that utilize AJAX are being forced to morph from two-tier to three-tier architectures, pushing code to the client adds inherent issues with security and code maintenance. New techniques are being developed which focuses on server-side generated AJAX, allowing developers to code AJAX applications in PHP instead of JavaScript. This session will discuss and demo many of these new techniques which will allow for the development of rich, AJAX user experiences without needing to code any JavaScript whatsoever.

JBoss to Present "AJAX in Enterprise Portals" Session

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:00:00 EDT

Not only enterprise portals integrators are using AJAX at the portal level but now they can also use it for the development of more user-friendly JSR-168 portlets. With the arrival of new standards, AJAXified JSF Components like IceFaces to RichFaces became a reality that can be portable across the many JSR-168 portlet containers implementations, in the commercial or open source worlds. During this presentation, we will explain how this has been made possible and how one can write such portlets.

eBay to Present at SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:00:00 EDT

The Networked Application is an emerging design pattern in Rich Internet Application development. The crux of the pattern is to push all user interface code to the client. The client "downloads" the application, and the application then communicates to one or more servers. This session will explain the motivations of the pattern, and look at how it can be implemented using specific AJAX toolkits such as Google Web Toolkit, Yahoo User Interface Library, and Dojo. We will also talk about how the pattern can be implemented using AJAX alternatives such as Flex and Silverlight.

Bringing Voice and Messaging to Flash and AIR

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Director of Ribbit's Developer Platform, Chuck Freedman, will explore an evolution in web communication. With the growing demand of RIA and voice-over-the-web solutions, developers finally have a full suite of communication APIs to add to Flash. Coding with Ribbit, Freedman will demonstrate how to send SMS messages from your application. The session will explore features that let users check voicemail, listen to and even read their messages. We will see how to easily make and receive calls from Flash so customers can call you (or your client) without leaving the web page or picking up the phone. Freedman will reveal a killer app that can do it all - something attendees will quickly be able to build too, after experiencing this session.

Spice Up User Experience with Silverlight

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Microsoft introduced Silverlight as cross-platform, cross-browser, next generation RIA solution. This session will use real world implementations to show you how to build a Silverlight application from start to finish, as well overall strategy why we should or shouldn't use Silverlight. No matter whether you have LAMP, ASP.NET or Java web application, you can take advantage of Silverlight to impress your user with the "Wow" effects.

Billy Hoffman to Explore RIA Vulnerabilities at AJAX World's "AJAX Security Bootcamp"

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:30:00 EDT

Hoffman will give a review of traditional web security and explain the intracacies of Resource enumeration attacks in great detail, Injection attacks, and session hijacking as well as a step by step walk through of hacking an AJAX travel site. The intensive, one-day, hands-on training program aims to teach Web developers, Web designers, and other Web professionals how to build secure Rich Internet Application and demonstrate what the best practices are to mitigate security problems in AJAX apps.

Registration Opens for AJAX World Keynotes by Kevin Lynch of Adobe and Scott Guthrie of Microsoft

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:24:00 EDT

Kevin Lynch, who will be keynoting on October 21, 2008, helped originally coin the term "Rich Internet Application" in 2002. He has been at the center of innovation in Flash and Adobe AIR since their inception, and currently drives Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across desktops and devices. Previously Adobe's Chief Software Architect, he was promoted to CTO in February '08. Guthrie, who will be keynoting October 20, 2008, was a founding member of the .NET Framework team and today runs the development teams that deliver the CLR, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, IIS7, and the Visual Studio tools for Web, WPF and Silverlight development. Previously the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Divsion, he was promoted to Corporate Vice President in February '08.

The Beauty of JavaScript

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:00:00 EDT

JavaScript is one of the most interesting and misunderstood programming languages in common use today. Most developers will go their entire careers without realizing its full potential. It's not often that you get a language that supports the feature set that JavaScript does, while still being as widely deployed. This talk will spotlight some some patterns surrounding JavaScript's most elegant features such as closures, lambdas, object and array literals, object prototypes, private members and dynamic scope resolution -- all without boring you to tears.

Use JavaScript 2 Today with OpenLaszlo

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:00:00 EDT

JavaScript 2 is becoming increasingly important. Learn how to take advantage of JavaScript 2 while still running in today's browsers. Leverage your current JavaScript and HTML skills to build applications that run in Flash 7-9, DHTML and more with no code changes! OpenLaszlo 4.2 includes a new JavaScript 2-based compiler that translates JS2 syntax to a variety of formats, including JS 1.5, Actionscript 1 & 2 and Actionscript 3. When Firefox 4 is out, we'll be ready with native JavaScript 2.0 support! Come learn about this exciting new development, and about the new features designed to make developing complex apps easy, including cross-browser history and vector graphics support.

Building Great AJAX Applications from Scratch Using ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:00:00 EDT

Come see a no-slides, code-only presentation that starts with a blank directory and builds a data-driven, AJAX enabled, ASP.NET web application from scratch that implements common AJAX patterns with the rich set of AJAX Control Toolkit, accesses data with LINQ, and implements standards-based styling and layout using CSS and clean HTML. Learn the new features of ASP.NET 3.5 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and how they integrate together to provide the world's most productive web development experience. This session uses the 100% free .NET Framework and Visual Studio tools, and the resulting application will work with all browsers, Safari, Firefox and, of course, IE.

The Business Value of Social Networking on Corporate Intranets

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:30:00 EDT

This Session will demonstrate why social networking is more than just marketing buzz; it is a relational model that has been used for years to define the way human beings interact, and it is the next step in the natural evolution of the web.

It's 11 p.m., Do You Know Where Your Queries Are?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

Object-relational mappers such as Hibernate, LINQ, and Rail's ActiveRecord can greatly simplify creating database-backed web applications. These tools do such a good job of abstracting the database, that is possible to create very complex web applications without ever considering the database at all!. Unfortunately, ignorance is not always bliss. When naively programmed, seemingly trivial application code can cause inefficient queries at best, and scalability and concurrency nightmares at worst. This talk will show that while ORM's provide tremendous power and speed, it is still very important to know what is going underneath the comfortable abstraction layer the ORM provides. Examples will include identifying client-side joins, concurrency problems, and scalability issues.

Building RIAs Using Microsoft Silverlight 2

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

Many of today's (and tomorrow’s) development projects lend themselves nicely to RIA application patterns. Silverlight offers a compelling RIA development experience that works on Linux, the Mac and windows as well as all major browsers. With HD video, vector based graphics and a rich set of controls including DataGrid, Silverlight offers a compelling development experience in nearly any programming language you’d like from C# and VB, to JavaScript and Python. Learn how to use Visual Studio to create applications, how to create UI using XAML markup and code, how to retrieve data from the web, and how to manipulate data with XML and LINQ. This talk uses the 100% free Silverlight runtime and Visual Studio tools.

Extending Dojo via New Widgets

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

The Dojo Toolkit is an open-source JavaScript toolkit that has a large community following in and out of the Enterprise. One of the many useful aspects of Dojo is the ability to extend the toolkit to incorporate new functionality. dojo.E is a set of extensions for dojo 1.1 that makes it easier to build web applications, using XML to create user interfaces, handle events, make DOM modifications, and manage state transitions. This session takes an in-depth look at the dojo.E project, including several examples of apps and widgets that were built using dojo.E. Learn about extending Dojo via new widgets and how you can use it to rapidly build your own apps.

RIAs "Flying Pixel" and Enterprise Applications?

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

Rich Internet Applications have become ubiquitous to the point that many of us rely on them for daily activities. But there's a big difference between consumer websites and enterprise-class applications. While new browser capabilities provide a richer look and feel for consumer sites, they also facilitate mission-critical enterprise applications that deliver improved functionality, richness and end-user productivity. This session will explore various approaches to building RIAs and the pros and cons of each. As part of his review, Jeremy Chone will outline seven practical tips for bringing RIA to the enterprise.

AJAX Integration Guide for Spring Enterprise Applications

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

Today, there are a wealth of technologies to take advantage of to add AJAX behaviors to your Spring-based Java web applications. This session will assume you know the basics of AJAX and Spring, and will dive straight into evaluating the leading AJAX technologies, and how to integrate them with Spring to take full advantage of an existing Spring infrastructure. Attendees will emerge with an understanding of which tools to use when, and how they work in a Spring environment to create enterprise class rich web applications.

Enterprise RIA - Real Examples and Lessons Learnt

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

With the web as the new platform, it’s very clear that client-server application architecture of yesterday must migrate to the Rich Internet Applications (RIA) of tomorrow. This new RIA platform yields significant improvement to the user experience (UXP) while lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). We will present several cases of real deployment (using Curl RIA Platform) by large customers and discuss the lessons learnt - such as demands for robust scalability, high security, and super high performance. The need for very flexible architecture and agile development will also be covered.

Using Comet to Create a Two-Player Web Game

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

Using AJAX and Comet, this presentation walks through the process of creating a simple tic-tac-toe game in which two people play while other people can watch the game via their browser. The session involves creating a simple game playable in one session and then stepping through the process of adding back-end capabilities that enable it to be used in a two-player, distributed way. The presentation is aimed at newcomers to Comet, with lots of slides of example code. Some basic knowledge of AJAX is required for the session, but no knowledge of Comet is assumed. The finished product will be available for download after the session. This talk discusses APIs that are specific to the GlassFish Application Server; however, the general concepts are applicable to any server-side Comet implementation. Also, we'll briefly cover the new support for asynchronous communications in Servlet 3.0, which will be a part of the Java Enterprise Edition version 6.

HTML 5, WebSocket, and Comet - The Future of the Web

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

This session will provide an in-depth look into the use of HTML 5 WebSocket and the techniques and technologies required to build Comet applications with it. Additionally, the speakers will discuss the trade-offs between emerging de jure standards (such as HTML 5's WebSocket) and de facto standards such as the Bayeux protocol. Furthermore, the session will cover the server and network architecture that powers an event-driven web application. Attendees will be introduced to the technologies and requirements for delivering scalable, real-time Comet web applications, and, most importantly, to the pitfalls they may face in the process.

Oracle to Present "AJAX and REAs - Rich Enterprise Applications" at AJAX World Conference & Expo

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

Learn about Oracle Rich Enterprise Applications (REA), a standards – based development platform for AJAX/JSF, Adaptive Rendering, and Web 2.0 style-services built on ADF Faces Rich Client and Oracle WebCenter Services. ADF Faces introduces a standards based, framework driven approach to rich user interface that delivers 150+ JSF/AJAX components. This single framework approach can holistically address not only the mobile device and web application tier, but also enablement of enterprise systems with Web 2.0 – style capabilities. Learn more about ready – to – go components for data visualization, data manipulation, geomapping, dynamic client layer rendering that users are clamoring for.

Web 3.0 and the Age of Intelligence

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:30:00 EDT

Often called the Semantic or Pervasive Web, Web 3.0 brings a level of artificial intelligence to transform the Internet from a searchable catalog to a personal guide that can reason in a human-like fashion and provide users with more services and options for social networks. This session will map out the world of Web 3.0, exploring the unique benefits for end users, as well as opportunities for businesses. Using specific examples, Jon Doyle will demonstrate how Web 3.0 will change the way users interact with the web ¬ from planning and booking an entire vacation to automatically scheduling doctor's appointments based on personal preferences.

How To Build On-Demand Business Apps Using Force.com & Flex

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:00:00 EDT

Enterprises are enthusiastically embracing the shift from traditional client/server computing to SaaS. Inspired by customers who have embraced the web, developers are using RIA tools to create innovative new on-demand business applications. One important factor in the shift from traditional computing to SaaS has been ease of use through vendors' careful attention to the user experience utilizing RIA technologies. This jointly presented session will present how RIA technologies such as AJAX and Flex - in combination with the Force.com platform - provide all the tools necessary for developers to build an enterprise-class application - sometimes within hours!

The Cooperative-Web - A Reference Implementation: IBM OpusUna

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:30:00 EDT

Web applications are accessible on smart phone, TV, desktop, your home office or in your conference room. They have become common decision aids for our personal and business meetings. Situational Applications provide rich information and data visualization aids for decision-oriented meetings. The Cooperative Web reflects those situational applications that provide mediated collaboration as well as real-time streaming high-definition video.

Free "Cloud Computing & AJAX" Session by Amazon's Jeff Barr on October 22, in San Jose, California

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:15:00 EDT

Cloud Computing isn’t just another buzzword: this session will look at what the industry is up to, Amazon is up to, and especially how people are innovating in the cloud. Buzzwords aside, virtualized (cloud) computing is a disruptive game changer at both technical and business levels, as you'll learn. Amazon Senior Evangelist Jeff Barr will review Amazon's multi-year effort to provide software developers and entrepreneurs with the technical and business innovations which allow them to build cost-effective, highly-scalable web applications.

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:00:00 EDT

JavaScript is a language with more than its share of bad parts. It went from non-existence to global adoption in an alarmingly short period of time. It never had an interval in the lab when it could be tried out and polished. JavaScript has some extraordinarily good parts. In JavaScript there is a beautiful, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders. The best nature of JavaScript was so effectively hidden that for many years the prevailing opinion of JavaScript was that it was an unsightly, incompetent abomination. This session will expose the goodness in JavaScript, an outstanding dynamic programming language. Within the language is an elegant subset that is vastly superior to the language as a whole, being more reliable, readable and maintainable.

AJAX World Conference $200 "Gold Pass Registration" Savings to Expire This Friday

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:00:00 EDT

Rich Internet Applications offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October's AJAX World Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is still open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives.

AJAX World Conference $200 "Gold Pass Registration" Savings to Expire This Friday

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:00:00 EDT

Conference Theme: Beyond AJAX to the Rich Internet Application & Rich Interactive Experience Era. Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities Offered on a First-Come First-Served Basis. To inquire about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities please contact Carmen Gonzalez at 201-802-3021 or by email at events(at)sys-con.com. Currently, a limited number of sponsorship and exhibition packages with multiple sponsorship discounts are available for the following international events.

Netflix UI Guru To Present on Crafting Rich Web Interfaces

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:15:00 EDT

In every field of design one of the first things students do is learn from the work of others. They study and break down real-world examples in order to understand the underlying principles and patterns that make for successful design. Then they learn to apply these to their own set of problems. The real trick is to apply them in a nuanced manner. To be nuanced is 'to be sensitive to delicate differences of style.' Most of the art in crafting a rich experience on the Web can be summed up with this one word - 'nuance'.

Interoperable AJAX Tools and Mashups

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:00:00 EDT

This session describes current work at OpenAjax Alliance around AJAX tooling and AJAX mashups. AJAX developer tools have been hampered by lack of interoperability among various IDEs and AJAX toolkits. This session introduces a new XML industry standard, OpenAjax Metadata for AJAX Libraries, designed at OpenAjax Alliance's IDE committee by representatives from Adobe, Aptana, Eclipse/ATF, and Microsoft Visual Studio. This standard will result in plug&play between AJAX IDEs and toolkits.

AJAX World Conference $200 "Gold Pass Registration" Savings to Expire This Friday

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:00:00 EDT

Industry experts are arguing that enterprises now realize that endorsing Web 2.0 is going to happen via RIAs. Improving the user experience and adding interactive visualization is just the starting point. RIAs also offer scalability, reliability, performance, and security on par with what they are used to with old client-server technology.

Oracle Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:00:00 EDT

Oracle's business is information-how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. The world's largest enterprise software company, Oracle is a vendor that offers solutions for every tier of your business-database, middleware, business intelligence, business applications, and collaboration. With Oracle, you get information that helps you measure results, improve business processes, and communicate a single truth to your constituents.

Ulitzer Named "Content Sponsor" of AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:00:00 EDT

Ulitzer.com which initially made the headlines with its “job descriptions from the future,” announced today that it will launch its Ulitzer “beta” site with 6,500 authors and close to 1 million original articles, published in more than 5,000 topic-specific online journals. Each journal offers up to 14 content-specific sections, written by the world’s most-respected authors, who are experts in their particular fields. All Ulitzer authors will get paid for their contributions. Ulitzer, based on Drupal 6.0 CMS platform, is the largest Drupal installation successfully rolled out anywhere.

Understanding iPhone JavaScript Extensions

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:00:00 EDT

Apple has introduced a number of extensions to the JavaScript programming language to assist iPhone Web developers. Including new fast lookup functions, native SVG graphics processing, CSS effects, database storage and full screen mode. These new functions will transform the way Web and AJAX developers look at the iPhone for application development. This session introduces the JavaScript extensions, and shows practical examples of their usage.

Designing, Developing & Building Rich E-mail Apps

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:20:00 EDT

The first e-mail message was sent over 40 years ago and e-mail is the dominant form of electronic communication today, containing a unique data repository with rich context about people’s lives. Given the mass acceptance and potential value of e-mail, it’s worth considering what apps can be built on top of this well-tested, scalable and ubiquitous infrastructure. This session delves into the lessons learned from building TripIt, a travel organizer and social network that enables people to forward their travel confirmation e-mails to automatically create rich sharable travel itineraries. We’ll cover the history of e-mail apps and best practices for designing and developing e-mail apps. Understand how to get your e-mail delivered, the complexities of interpreting e-mail from a wide assortment of mail clients, as well as spam, security and privacy.