HTML5 and EcmaScript 5, provide very powerful APIs that blur the line between the Web and the Desktop user experience. This has resulted in more organizations choosing to build their applications using Web technologies, rather than using the traditional Desktop approach. In order to explore the evolution of this trend, InfoQ had an interview with Dylan Schieman, CEO of SitePen and co-creator of the Dojo Toolkit, about the potential of the Web platform.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Document Collaboration Evolves Into a Complex Powerhouse
From cmswire:
"If ever a topic were complex, it is the evolution of document collaboration. The complexity emanates from the evolution of the document itself. In fact, today when people talk of document management, an initial grounding question should be “define document." Content is perhaps a better word nowadays. Isn’t a web page a document? An email, tweet, instant message, digitzed video, image file, mashup of several content sources? Today, when one speaks of a “document,” the possibilities are limitless."
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
DataStax Wants To Make Cassandra The Best NoSQL Of Them Al
The NoSQL databases featuring massive scalability developed for and used by the big social networks like Facebook and Twitter have created a whole new category. Amazingly (or not) most of the competitors in this space are open source projects. Most of these open source projects also have corporate entities that have sprung up around them to offer support and services. Perhaps the first and one of the better known of these open source NoSQL projects is Cassandra. DataStax is the company that is bringing Cassandra support, products and services to market.
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