Friday, May 7th, 2010
Category: Google, JavaScript
, Toolkit
, Utility
, WebGL
This is fantastic news. A lot of people were claiming that O3D was going to beat WebGL because of performance. Then the O3D team showed that the two could be complimentary, and they have taken the next step on that journey. As of today, O3D will stop being a plugin, and will become a JS Read the rest…
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Category: Announcements, Toolkit
, UI
The Ample SDK, a unique GUI toolkit working to create a cross-browser abstraction backed by open standards, has gone open source! With the new 0.8.9 release the GUI framework is now an open-source project licensed under GPL/MIT and hosted on GitHub. More about the Ample SDK: The Ample SDK makes it easy to create interactive Read the rest…
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Category: Library, Toolkit
, Yahoo!
The YUI team has put out YUI 3.0: We’re pleased to announce today the general-availability release of YUI 3.0.0. YUI 3’s core infrastructure (YUI, Node and Event) and its utility suite (including Animation, IO, Drag & Drop and more) are all considered production-ready with today’s release. This is a ground-up redesign of YUI: Selector-driven: YUI Read the rest…
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Category: Cappuccino, Framework
, Toolkit
As it turns out, the Cappuccino team has been busy hacking away on some very impressive stuff. Today at the Future of Web Apps Miami, they announced Aristo and Atlas. Aristo Cappuccino worked with the popular design firm Sofa to create Aristo, a new open-source look-and-feel that will be freely available, including the source PSD Read the rest…
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Category: GWT, JavaScript
, Toolkit
You may remember Sanjiv Jivan as the GWT-Ext developer that changed over the debacle. He then went on to start work on a GWT version of SmartClient libraries and has now released SmartGWT 1.0. It is a tour de force of not only a huge widget library, but he explains how it is much more: Read the rest…
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
To the ranks of Ext JS, jQuery UI, Dijit, and others comes JxLib, a new browser-based UI toolkit built on top of MooTools. Jason Fournier from the team passed the announcement to us: JxLib includes layout managers, buttons, tabs, toolbars, dialogs, panels, trees and a basic grid control all designed to work together. It is Read the rest…
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Podcasts
, Toolkit
As I say in this podcast interview, I got an early look at 280 Slides the application that launched yesterday to much acclaim. People are calling it “Keynote on the Web”, which the team finds very humbling, and hope that one day they have all of the great features (and more!). As you can hear Read the rest…
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Category: Toolkit
Thomas Hansen has released Gaia Glory the latest version of the toolkit library. There are a ton of samples, and Thomas highlights the following: TreeView GridView Portal Example Dynamic Image Controls Madness Complex Controls Mixed One big feature is the new skinning: We are for this release MIT licensing our skins. Not only is the Read the rest…
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Category: JavaScript, Toolkit
Appcelerator is a fairly new open source toolkit on the block that is trying to be an Open Web RIA to compete with Flex and co. with high profile folks such as Marc Fleury as advisors. Nolan Wright, CTO, has written a piece for syscon entitled The Next Web Development Episode Is RIA + SOA. Read the rest…
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Category: Announcements, Conferences
, Toolkit
, Yahoo!
Yahoo’s Tom Coates today finally released FireEagle at ETech 2008. Seeing Tom in the office for quite a while getting everything ready makes me very happy to announce that it is out and invite you to come along and sign up for the beta to start testing and – even more importantly – developing applications Read the rest…
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Category: Announcements, Toolkit
The Pownce team has been working hard to get their API up to speed and have gotten the API to a point where some cool applications can be built from it. Yesterday, they announced v2.0 of the Pownce API: We’re sorry it took so long for us to release a complete API. We’ve taken great Read the rest…
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Category: Dojo, Toolkit
, Utility
WaveMaker has just released a new version of its open source Visual Ajax Studio v3.1.1. It is similar to TIBCO GI, but built on top of Dojo with JavaScript output that is very terse and even looks like something you may have written (which is rare indeed for a tool). Studio lets users create database- Read the rest…
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
WebCream has been renamed and a new version launched as AjaxSwing 2.0, a framework that “does all server communication via asynchronous JavaScript and uses partial page updates to reflect changes in the browser.” New Features AJAX functionality for component rendering and asynchronous communication with the server Asynchronous submit of client-side events and operations Partial page Read the rest…
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Category: Toolkit
Mashable.com is best known for their up-to-minute reporting on trendy websites and social networking news. Along with their standard news, they regularly make posts that list out great resources for different web technologies. Well, it looks like Mashable’s Sean P. Aune spent the whole weekend on a new post because he’s listed out 250+ tools Read the rest…
Monday, October 15th, 2007
Category: Java, JavaScript
, Toolkit
Ben and I have been surprised at how the universe of Ajax continues to expand. This redshift which has taken it past the browser onto the phone, the Wii, and the server is amazing. Another technology that has done a similar thing is OSGi in the Java space. It started as a component model for Read the rest…
Monday, October 8th, 2007
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Toolkit
, Tutorial
, UI
Sun Labs has released a new Lively Kernel project that takes the Morphic UI framework that Sun developed for Self, and implements it in JavaScript. This enables you to run the kernel and start interacting with the world. There is one world. Why did they do it? The Lively Kernel places a special emphasis on Read the rest…
Usability Systems
While I've kind of put a hold on the monitoring solution (kind of shifted gears, so twiddling between that and another project), one thing is true...
Goodbye to three-tier computing?
Software in the original mainframe days was all glommed together. Why not? Who was looking? Sometimes, reluctantly, some structure came about. Even in...
Node.js: Bubbling up from JavaScript
Jack Vaughan, Site Editor
Bubbling under the mainstream of computing these days is the fast growing phenomenon of Node.js – a framework built on...
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