Sep 6 2006

COWS not much an Ajax

Saw it on Slashdot yesterday, where COWS Ajax was introduced. What is COWS first of all: Ajax has been revolutionizing the web. However it is greatly limited by the browser same-origin policy, meaning that your site can only be as good as the web applications and tools that you create. But there’s a lot of [...]

Apr 12 2006

AjaxTerm — terminal emulation over the web

Who cares about Web 2.0, as I have just found the single most useful Ajax application of all time — AjaxTerm, powered by QWeb the Python web framework. From its own description: Ajaxterm is a web based terminal. It was totally inspired and works almost exactly like Anyterm except it’s much more easy to install. [...]

Oct 8 2005

Google Reader, the Ajaxified RSS Aggregator in Beta

Via Slashdot, Google has a new “Web 2.0″ application pre-released to the public — Google Reader beta, a heavily Ajaxified RSS reader, in the field against other popular aggregators like Bloglines or Rojo. It has a nice very-Gmail-like interface, with short-cut keys like j for next unread message, and k for the previous one! Must [...]

Oct 4 2005

AJAX makes Application Server Redundant?

Phil Wainewright wrote an article in ZDNet with an catchy title, How AJAX kills the application server. He said, An unnoticed side-effect of implementing rich internet application platforms — whether they’re AJAX or anything else — is that this ‘client-service’ architecture eliminates the need for an application server to connect the Web client to back-end [...]