May
30

JAX India 2007: Day 2: JSF, Java Architecture Management, Best Practices WS, Java IDEs

The Day 2 of JAX India saw the start of 40 conference sessions spread over 3 days. Here is extract of the sessions that I attended. Introduction to JSF for Struts Developers – Craig McClanahan The session was targeted to cover an overview about Java Server Faces. The agenda includes: Origin of Struts Craig started with …

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May
28

JAX India 2007: Day 1: Web2.0? But I am Barely keeping up with Web 1.0 Right Now !

Its been an exciting day on the inaugural day of JAX India 2007. The day was meant for workshops and I attended half a day workshop on “Web 2.0? But I am Barely keeping up with Web 1.0 Right Now !” by Craig R McClanahan. Here is extract from the session: The session covered from history of web …

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May
28

Internationalization in a different way

Some days back Google launched a new feature on Google Translate, where search query is in one language and the results can be a from the web pages in other language. From Google: How does this work? 1. Search for Dubai tours from English to Arabic. 2. We translate your query into “جولات دبي” and …

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May
17

Is Ajax making sites less reachable?

We have been talking about Ajax and Web 2.0 technologies for sometime now. At one end Ajax becoming an asset from usability point of view but on the other hand it is making sites less search engine friendly. Search engines for now are not intelligent enough to make a server side request and retrieve the …

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May
03

Search Engine: Is Content Separation a new SEO?

We are very familiar with the concept of separation of code from content. Yahoo recently tried to separate content itself into actual content and common content. What I mean is separating parts of a page that do not relate to the main content, such as navigation, menus repeated across the entire site, boilerplate text, or …

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May
02

Another Collaboration Feature: Google’s Gadget

Here is another Collaboration Feature from Google. Google has introduced a new Gadget maker product for iGoogle (new name for Google Personalized Homepage). The users without having any programming or web design experience can create Gadgets and share with community or other iGoogle user. The Gadgets are as simple as filling out the form in …

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