@WinHEC2008

11/06/2008 07:35 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

Some of the more interesting bits of info from the WinHEC2008 Keynote: Roadmap for Win7 Win7 loads device drivers in parallel and starts services on demand Direct 3D speed graphics A DVD running on the same machine drew 13.4 watts...

Google in your pants?

08/28/2008 08:16 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

One of my main concerns with the Google Cloud has been how Google mines your cloud data for AdSense. To put it bluntly, I hear a lot of talk about how one radge or another is "comfortable" with that. I'm...

SOA success, or lack thereof

07/10/2008 08:14 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

Benefits of a Data Abstraction Layer

07/03/2008 08:17 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

SOA Case Studies

05/20/2008 12:16 am by Digital Walkabout in techmology

What is SOA?

04/29/2008 12:18 am by Digital Walkabout in techmology

I have encountered a number of debates across various fora, the latest dealing with "WOA" vs. "SOA". It is fair to say that in the wider IT community, never mind the business, many are confused by all the different acronyms,...

Architecting a Flex app

03/21/2008 12:42 am by Digital Walkabout in techmology

Architecting a Flex App Web developers who take Flex for a spin may initially be confused by the user interface model. Although a typical, servlet-style, request-response model will work in Flex, There Is A Better Way. Thanks to the "[Binding]"...

Stating the obvious - "Enterprise 2.0"

03/20/2008 06:30 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

The article "The Connected Generation" takes something most of us have known for years and brings it to the attention of the broader audience - business applications need to support instant and text messaging, the tool of choice for teen...

Using Flex, BlazeDS and Spring

03/19/2008 01:08 am by Digital Walkabout in techmology

Flex is rapidly becoming the preferred technology for building groundbreaking internet applications delivered in the browser and on the desktop (using the AIR runtime). For several years, Spring has been one of the most popular frameworks for building the Java...

Silverlight 2 Beta

03/10/2008 11:46 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

I wanted to get my hands on Silverlight 2 beta, writing a sample app to understand the experience. I half expected Silverlight to be an enormous, complex, sophisticated platform rivaling WPF - after all, it was initially named WPF/E. On...

The RIA pattern

03/04/2008 12:14 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

Rich user interfaces are appreciated by users; however, their design and implementation are much more challenging. Developers have to cope with frequent user interaction and more complex presentation logic and state. Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) come in different architectural flavors,...

Release the hounds: Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 are "on"

02/25/2008 08:36 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

Flex 3.0 and Adobe AIR 1.0 have been released! If you'd like to buy Flex Builder 3.0, it is available in two versions: Flex Builder 3 Standard and Flex Builder 3 Professional. Both are available from the Adobe online store:...

Tom Jordahl presents on BlazeDS

02/25/2008 08:33 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

Tom Jordahl is presenting about BlazeDS to the ColdFusion Online Meetup on February 28. Anyone can join the Acrobat Connect room and the session will be recorded. More details are available here. The description: Recently Adobe announced the release of...

Rejection?

02/10/2008 05:24 am by Digital Walkabout in techmology

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/business/10yahoo.html Yahoo’s board decided that Microsoft’s $44.6 billion hostile bid undervalues Yahoo, people involved in the discussions said. Yahoo's board is signaling shareholders that the company is worth more than $31/share. Meanwhile, the reality of the situation is that Yahoo's...

Battle of the Planets - the EU OOXML saga

02/08/2008 09:51 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

EU regulators have announced a third investigation into Microsoft's conduct on the desktop, the latest action demonstrating that while the EU has settled its earlier decade-long case against Microsoft, it remains as suspicious as ever regarding the software vendor's conduct,...

MOLIvann!

02/04/2008 08:48 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

MOLI is an interesting social networking site that was recently launched. I find their concept of multiple profiles to be rather intriguing, combined with its small business target. In addition, I find their depth of understanding of monetisation to be...

Yahoooooo, Microsoft

02/01/2008 03:36 pm by Digital Walkabout in techmology

Microsoft's long rumoured offer to acquire Yahoo! became official today with a bid of US$44.6 billion of shares and cash, thus valuing Yahoo! at $31 a share, a 62% premium on yesterday's closing price. Multiple sources have stated that Yahoo!...

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