Introduction The purpose of this series is to give you an introduction to innovative technologies and standards that are shaping up the Realtime Web. In this post we will explore two emerging standards and their implementations: SPDY, Web Sockets (and SSE). In this series I intend to explore state of innovation in entire web […]
Introduction The purpose of this post is to give you a quick overview of what FitNesse is, how it works and the innovation behind it. As we know software development is a collaborative process. There are many different people involved: Product owner, Business analyst, Developer, QA analyst and Support personnel, etc. There is also multiple […]
Introduction The purpose of this post is to give an overview of background, technical architecture, features offered by VoltDB. Traditional RDBMS systems like Oracle, Sybase are designed decades back and have architecture based on the needs of their times. Michael Stonebraker and his team from MIT have taken a closer look at the current database […]
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 […]
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 […]
As we know OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric identity. The goal is to have the user remember one user name and password and login to any site which supports the protocol. It is light-weight and supports SSO. In the past few days there has been a lot of traction to OpenID […]
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