Website Extension Paradigms are primarily ways of extending functionality of a website by a service of a third-party provider. This trend has emerged in recent years and is growing rapidly with the explosion of websites offering API support (Click to learn more about API). This opens the door for innovation in business model by combining […]
As banks and other major institutions are getting bailed out by the government, one thing that stands out is the need for transparency/accountability. Obama administration is trying to do its part by initiatives such as recovery.gov to provide greater transparency in government. When it comes to businesses, the major challenge of policy makers (and leaders) is […]
Today building a new web application involves the essential step of evaluating AJAX frameworks and select an appropriate one. In this post I will detail the various criteria that should be considered while making a decision. Adoption Criteria This criteria is important for IT managers (or EA strategy) to decide if it would even be […]
Jaxer is an open-source web application development framework providing an consistent Javascript based programming model between the cloud (server) and client. In this post I will provide an architectural overview of this technology and provide a conceptual mobile strategy that this framework can be used for. Architectural Overview The core of Jaxer is written in […]
The issue of Privacy is one of the major concerns in the web today. The most common of such concerns centered around the user data having to live in the cloud with the potential for it to be exposed, stolen or misused by external elements (including the service provider). In this post I share my […]
Internationalization is one of the common requirements in web applications. One of the challenges faced by a team is the non-availability of translated resource bundles during development (mostly due to logistical reasons). But it is important to test various scenarios during the application development. In this post I will present a simple idea which utilizes […]
In today’s web applications the need for returning model data from controllers in XML/JSON format is quite common. Mostly these requirements are met by writing custom code in controllers. In this post I will present technical approach that would enable your applications to return data model in XML/JSON or data format of your choice to […]
Yesterday Google unvieled the newest development paradigm for developing offline web applications. David Berlind says Google Gears vies to be defacto tech for offline webapps and could very well be! I’m very excited and impressed by reading through the developer documentation and demonstrations. The architecture employs a switch based on a installed browser plugin and […]
I recently stumbled upon Google Spreadsheet’s worksheet syndication publishing feature. Basically you can publish your spreadsheet as a RSS/ATOM public feed. Also using Spreadsheet GData Client API it is possible to add new entries to your spreadhseet. Leveraging these abilities the possibility of using Google Spreadsheet as a Personal RSS platform seems very straight forward. […]
The adoption of Aspect Oriented Programming paradigm in enterprise software is rapid. It is interesting to look at various applications of AOP in enterprise architecture: Apply design patterns as modules Application security architecture Transaction, Logging, Stats, etc. Enforce architectural design standard for application development by leveraging AOP tool support JVM Clustering AOP allows modularization of […]
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