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Web Services and Smart Data.

September 2006

One of the long-standing hassles of browser-based apps has been the tendency for such apps to violate to web paradigm. It’s a challenge for all AJAX developers to create consistent back-button behavior. Our Mike Riley brought up this point while interviewing Ben Watson from Adobe about rich internet apps and Adobe's Flex Builder 2 IDE. Rather than accommodate it, Ben's preference would be to kill it outright. The issue is bound to persist as long as apps are built within a sequential, page-based model. What’s your opinion?

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The promise of Ajax: building apps in the browser. The curse of Ajax: building apps in the browser. With Flex 2.0, Adobe is applying its investments in Flash to build a RAD-style development environment for Ajax.

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In this podcast interview, Scaling Online Apps: It's Really Hard, Vladimir Miloushev discusses the challenges in scaling online applications, and steps software developers can take to make the process easier. He looks at the impact that infrastructure plays on the ability to build scalable online apps. Vladimir is CEO of 3Tera, makers of AppLogic, a grid operating system that lets you use Disposable Infrastucture to change the hardware upon which your app is running on the fly.
Additionally, David Dame points out in his article, Software as a Service, that even though some of the technical hurdles have been minimized, there are still some of pitfalls in rolling out a successful SaaS model, including licensing complexities and workable business models.

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Are you going to be in the Washington DC area on Thursday? IBM and Georgetown University are hosting an SOA summit on September 14: Applying SOA to Real World Problems. The day long summit will feature speakers from Marriott, the US Air Force and the Department of the Interior. Topics covered will include Applying SOA to Real-World, SOA Success at the Department of the Interior and US Air Force, Global Combat Support Services (GCSS), and Judith Hurwitz, author of "SOA for Dummies," will moderate an SOA panel discussion. IBM and Georgetown will also be making a significant news announcement about a new multi-university partnership.
After the summit, don’t call it a day before heading over to the Black Cat club on 14th and S Streets NW, to hear the band Rogue Wave. They'll be playing on the Mainstage with Jason Collett and Foreign Born.

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In web-based applications, locking database records while editing is a challenge. David Perelman-Hall provides a client-based solution written in Java. His technique provides record locking for multiuser data-driven web applications that does not take place in the database. The system also provides an admin panel that shows who is viewing or editing what page in the application, and can be used to kick users out of the application altogether by ending their sessions.

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Web visionary Tim Berners-Lee was recently interviewed by Scott Laningham of IBM's developerWorks on the state of the Web development and the Semantic Web. Berners-Lee has high praise for the democratic nature of AJAX development, but sees Web 2.0 as simply new jargon for "what the Web was supposed to be all along." He also opines on spam, SPARQL, net neutrality, spam, the myth of Archimedes, and spam, and more. Listen to the podcast or read the transcript.

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