Ryan Stewart holds an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is now a Rich Internet Application developer and industry analyst. After graduating from Penn, he spent two years developing applications for the Wharton School and pushing the idea of the web as a platform for learning. Ryan now lives in Seattle with his wife and runs his a consulting company, helping clients build and architect Rich Internet Applications. He tracks the web and Rich Internet Applications for ZDNet on The Universal Desktop (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/) as well as his personal blog, Digital Backcountry (http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com).
ColdFusion developers have known for years how powerful rapid development can
be and how much of a difference that makes when building dynamic Web
applications. Over the course of a little more than a year we've watched as
the Web model was turned on its head in favor of something that feels much
more intuitive and is much more user-friendly. Part of this change has come
about because of what most people call "Web 2.0." Web 2.0 has brought about
more buzzwords than a marketing convention. A lot of normal users have
stopped trying to figure out what tagging is, what AJAX means, or what the
blogosphere really is. They have to be wondering why most of the Web sites
they're using suddenly have "beta" on them.
Despite all of this, the thing that matters most to Web users is experience.
No matter what you think about Web 2.0 and the obscene amounts of money
venture capit... (more)
My hope is that when Flex developers talk about how great Apollo is, you also
talk about what it can do for AJAX. Why is that? Well, because despite being
an Adobe product, Apollo adoption won’t be driven by Flash initially.
It will be driven by people who are making full use of AJAX and building very
complex applications within the browser. By far the most powerful feature of
Apollo is its ability to give AJAX developers a way to run their applications
in a desktop environment.
Apollo really shores up AJAX and patches holes in many of the weaknesses:
AJAX runs in a browser,... (more)
Ryan Stewart holds an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is now a Rich Internet Application developer and industry analyst. After graduating from Penn, he spent two years developing applications for the Wharton School and pushing the idea of the web as a platform for learning. Ryan now lives in Seattle with his wife and runs his a consulting company, helping clients build and architect Rich Internet Applications. He tracks the web and Rich Internet Applications for ZDNet on The Universal Desktop (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/) as well as his personal blog, Digital Backcountry (http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com).
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