Few days back I wrote about making web applications offline, well Google again are way ahead of the crowd and they already came up with the same called Google Gears. It is an open source web browser extension that enables web applications to provide functionality while user is offline. Google basically talks about 3 main layers to achieve this …
Jun
01
JAX India 2007: Day 4: SOA and ESB for Enterprise Architecture
The day 4 was a surprise for me, as the number of attendees reduced many folds. Well I went to attend the session “Leveraging SOA and ESB for an Enterprisse Architecture – Bryan Cheung“. Looks like Bryan is a big fan of coffee specially from Startbucks and he all the way of his presentation used …
Apr
23
CMS, Web 2.0 and SEO
To what I understand till now about Web 2.0, it emphasize on Search Engine Optimization as one of the main area of concern. Let me try to list down few of the Search Engine Optimizations from CMS implementation point of view: A utility to detect duplicate content detection at the time of content publish I …
Apr
21
What each Product Name Means?
Just wondering how much a name of a product make sense? This strike me when I was reading about Search Engine Optimization and came across how domain name plays a vital role in optimization (will cover SEO in my next posts). Lets have a look at few products from each space and try to understand …
Mar
22
Catchup with Open Ajax Project
Open Ajax Project or better known as Open Ajax Alliance has added many more members to their alliance. The biggest name to add to the list is Microsoft. This makes a total count of 73 members working towards Ajax Globalization. Alliance has come up with the term called “OpenAjax Conformance” which defines a set of …
May
17
Sun Portal is now Open Source
As mentioned by Navneeth in his post, Sun Portal has been open sourced. The news came in after Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz promised to make Java open-source code at JavaOne. Check out the press release Sun Advances Open Source Strategy at JavaOne. Sun has launched Portal Open Source Project under which it will be …
May
12
Open Ajax Project
Some days back I wrote an Article “Are we ready to adopt Ajax to improve usability? ” highlighting the various questions that need to be answered before we can really adopt it. Here is one initiative called “Open Ajax Project” that aims to create a single framework that standardizes development and debugging on a common …
Apr
13
Open Source Product customization a better option than Grounds up?
None of the Product directly fit 100% to clients’ requirements. There is always customization required little/more to meet the end goals. Customization means integration/modifications in the underlying product architecture and not at the usability level. A very frequent example is search engine customization/integration with the product which is in use in the company for years …
Mar
14
Are open source acquisitions good in long run?
Recently, we have seen lot of open source acquisitions by players like IBM, Oracle, Sun etc. These acquisitions has raised questions about the future of open source industry. Here is my take on it: Any acquisition happens with motive of either reward or out of fear. Reward, when acquiring company thinks that the product can …
Mar
06
Open Source: Need to analyze their Biggest Asset
There is lot of revolution in Open Source Area and every other day we hear a new open source product in market or an open source acquired/taken over by commercial companies. Whatever be the case, everyone want that its product be listed among the best, whether it is a commercial product or an open source …
