The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader's google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access
Myghty is a Python based templating framework originally based on HTML::Mason, the enterprise-level framework used by Amazon.com, del.icio.us and Salon.com,
Hop is a new higher-order language designed for programming interactive web applications such as web agendas, web galleries, music players, etc. It exposes a programming model based on two computation levels. The first one is in charge of executing the lo
Just like other online courses I teach, this course is offered online only. For those of you who are not sure what it's like to take this course online, please see What it's like to take Sang Shin's online course. Just to set the expectation correctly, th
Most web applications have many more model objects exposed on the backend, or admin side, than they do on the front. Coding interfaces for all those models is redundant and a waste of resources when all you need is CRUD functionality that’s smart enough
The Google Web Toolkit provides the FormPanel and FileUpload classes to handle form and files submission in a rather elegant way. However, the way it works is not that straightforward when reading the API documentation. Worse, I did not find that many res
What is that? In case you haven't already used it, prototype.js is a JavaScript library written by Sam Stephenson. This amazingly well thought and well written piece of standards-compliant code takes a lot of the burden associated with creating ri
First I must admit that I don't buy GWT's approach. There is a reason why we don't write HTML code from servlets anymore. Programmers usually are bad UI designers (look at my website for something to back my claim ;-) and great UI designers usually don't
One of the main goals of the Programa Nacional de Tecnologías de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información , (within the e-pyme section), is the research and development of methodologies, models and tools for a collective use in order to provide advice
I´ve been designing an architecture for a new application where I am evaluating a lot of Ajax Solutions. Reading one of Javatool´s Newsletter, I discovered a framework called ZK , which sounds nice because is not required use JavaScript to automate ever
Up until about ten months ago, very few people would have considered javascript as a language in which one could build significant portions of the UI of an enterprise application. If, say, I needed to display a table of information with support for sortin
JBoss Seam is a "lightweight framework for Java EE 5.0". What does that mean? Isn't Java EE (Enterprise Edition) 5.0 itself a collection of "frameworks"? Why do you need another one that is outside of the official specification? Well, we view Seam as the
aSSL is a library distributed under MIT License thats implements a technology similar to SSL without HTTPS. aSSL is composed from a file .js and a server component. Currently, the ASP and PHP components are ready. I'm developing Ruby and Java components a
mootools is a very compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework. Its unique design makes it extremely crossbrowser, easy to use, and a snap to extend with your own code. It comes with a choice of more than fifteen scripts, plugins and add-ons, i