AJAX

Popfly Goes Beta

Frank — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:53:00 GMT

Popfly is out of Alpha and into Beta.

It's also available to everyone with a Windows Live ID rather than a special invite.

What is PopFly?

Well, it's a website that allows users to create web pages and mashups via the Silverlight rich internet applications runtime and a set of AJAX/Web Service tools provided. (See Wikipedia article for more info)

Development is done primarily by dragging components represented as boxes onto a design surface and linking them together with lines.

For example, to create a carousel of images from Flickr, you would drag a carousel box and a Flickr box onto the design surface. You then link the output of the Flickr box to the carousel box.

The carousel displays the images from Flickr. For an example, see this mashup I made.

To me, PopFly really represents the future of development: creating applications by linking services together in new and interesting ways.

Coding, for the most part, has been abstracted away. Sure, there's still code written by folks building the services, but they'll be few and far between compared to the number of "drag-and-droppers."

[found via David Kelley]

Technorati tags: PopFly, SilverLight, SOA

Just Got Onto PopFly

Frank — Wed, 30 May 2007 18:05:00 GMT

I just got an invite to join PopFly. So far, I just signed up and I'm looking forward to making some cool mashups. :)

Technorati tags: PopFly, MashUp, Web 2.0

Dino Esposito Speaking at TechEd

Frank — Thu, 10 May 2007 12:46:00 GMT

Dino Esposito, ASP.NET Guru, author and all aroudn nice guy, will be presenting at TechEd this year.

Actually, he's giving three breakout sessions:

200:: Design, Host, and Deploy Workflows in Multi-Tier Applications
300:: Top 10 Controls and Extenders in the AJAX Control Toolkit
400:: Under the Hood of ASP.NET AJAX Partial Rendering

If you can't make it to Orlando for the big show, he's also speaking at smaller events in London and Amsterdam this June. Check his blog for details.

Technorati tags: Dino Esposito, ASP.NET, TechEd, TechEd 2007

Free AJAX Clinic

Frank — Tue, 08 May 2007 17:29:00 GMT

Microsoft Learning has a free two hour AJAX Clinic.

Title: Clinic 5230: Developing Enhanced Web Experiences with Microsoft® ASP.NET AJAX Extensions
Description:
In this 2-hour clinic you will learn about the rich functionality that ASP.NET AJAX Extensions provides for building highly responsive and enhanced web applications. In addition to learning about the different server and client components of ASP.NET AJAX, you will also learn how to build new ASP.NET AJAX applications and how to upgrade existing ASP.NET applications to take advantage of ASP.NET AJAX.
This clinic is appropriate for experienced .NET Web Developers and Software Architects who are looking to incorporate ASP.NET AJAX within their existing and future solutions.

[found via Chris Breisch]

Technorati tags: AJAX, Learning, Training, Free Training, Web 2.0

Risk + Web 2.0 = Risk 2.0

Frank — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:07:00 GMT

While not technically called Risk, this web mashup, dubbed EndGame, uses Google Maps as it's backend.

Google Map-based mashups are nothing new, but this is a decidedly different turn towards entertainment and online gameplay.

What's next?

The ability to use real satellite imagery in games makes for some interesting and intriguing ideas: imagine Civilization with real maps and real cities or a Tom Clancy game with real time (more or less) data and scenarios based on current events.

We could witness the birth of the armchair strategist.

[found via Alex Barnett]

Tags: AJAX Google Maps Mashup Web 2.0 Gaming Risk Civilization Splinter Cell

Automated Testing Walkthrough for AJAX

Frank — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:45:00 GMT

The AJAX Toolkit team has posted a walk through on how to set up automated testing for AJAX components.

Just one more step to making AJAX an enterprise ready technology.

[found via the DevHammer aka Andrew Duthie]

Tags: AJAX AJAX Toolkit Automated Testing Walkthrough Andrew Duthie DevHammer Microsoft

ATLAS Gets a Release Date and New Name

Frank — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:02:00 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces an end of year release date for ATLAS.

Speaking of ATLAS, it's no longer called ATLAS.

1) The client-side “Atlas” javascript library is going to be called the Microsoft AJAX Library. This will work with any browser, and also support any backend web server (read these blog posts to see how to run it on PHP and ColdFusion).

2) The server-side “Atlas” functionality that nicely integrates with ASP.NET will be called the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions. As part of this change the tag prefix for the “Atlas” controls will change from <atlas:>to <asp:>. These controls will also be built-in to ASP.NET vNext.

3) The “Atlas” Control Toolkit today is a set of free, shared source controls and components that help you get the most value from the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions. Going forward, the name of the project will change to be the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.

Tags: AJAX ATLAS Javascript Microsoft .NET

Web 2.0 and Windows Mobile

Frank — Tue, 09 May 2006 21:27:00 GMT

The last session today at MEDC covers the role that Windows Mobile devices can play in Web 2.0.

Maps are probably the most practical example of a Web 2.0 application adding value by being usable on a mobile device.

Remember, even Web 2.0 still uses HTTP as the base protocol and the Compact Framework knows HTTP pretty well.

Tags: MEDC Tablet Mobile Las Vegas Venetian Web 2.0

Richmond Code Camp ATLAS Chalk Talk Link

Frank — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:49:00 GMT

At the first ever Richmond Code Camp last Saturday, we had to make a last minute adjustment to the schedule and decided to hold a chalk talk on the emerging technologies of AJAX and ATLAS.

DonXML was kind enough to moderate the talk at the last minute. Steve Radich stepped up and demonstrated ATLAS, which he already had installed on his laptop.

While I wish I could have stayed for the entire session, I had to make sure the Code Camp as running smoothly. Each time I went back to the Web room, I heard some lively discussion and debate going on.

Andrew Duthie blogs about the follow up item he promised to the entire room and talks about what a great session it was.

Tags: Code Camp Richmond, VA Developer Community AJAX ATLAS

AJAX Conference

Frank — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 10:09:00 GMT

You know AJAX is getting some real world traction when you see a conference dedicated just to AJAX.

Tags: AJAX Conference