Joe Walker

Defining The Open Web

Brad asked what the 'Open Web' is. Twice. My mum was always cross if she had to ask 3 times, so here's my stab. The Open Web is the user-remixable technologies that are shipped by the clear majority of major browsers So, for example: XHTML 2.0 is

Posted: Jul. 23, 2008 07:00 AM

Lessons from Hosting a Website

You might have noticed that the getahead.org domain has been replaced by directwebremoting.org. There’s a story behind it ... 3 years ago when DWR started to be successful, I bought 2 identical servers, built them identically with the latest Deb

Posted: Jul. 22, 2008 12:46 PM

Useful Feeds

How many blog posts start with the words "Sorry I've not been blogging much recently, but I resolve to post more often from now". Such a post may be followed by some actual substance, before the silence re-starts. This is not one of those posts. Ge

Posted: May. 23, 2008 07:59 AM

Big Question for Sun

It looks from the outside as though every spare resource that Sun has is going into JavaFX. JavaFX may or may not win against Flash/Flex/Air/Silverlight/Android/Ajax, but while Sun is concentrating on FX, it doesn't appear to be giving the Java langu

Posted: May. 19, 2008 08:35 AM

App Engine and Java

The world is now split into Python programmers, making funny 'Goo' noises over App Engine, and everyone else who are wondering when/if this will be available in their language or if they are going to have to change their spots. Of all the languages

Posted: Apr. 9, 2008 03:49 PM

Commercial Support for DWR

Short version: Commercial support and development assistance is now available for DWR. Long version: SitePen has been offering support packages for a while, but you've had to ask. But it's now an advertised service, if you want help with Dojo, DWR

Posted: Mar. 14, 2008 06:25 AM

IE8 Review

I've been playing with IE8 beta 1, and I've got some thoughts ... In terms of user visible HTML rendering features, I think IE 8 beta 1 is possibly the biggest release of IE in nearly 11 years since April 1997 when IE 4.0 alpha 1 was released. The h

Posted: Mar. 5, 2008 03:53 PM

InfoQ Interview

InfoQ interviewed me, and asked: What are some of the major features planned for [DWR] version 3.0? When is 3.0 slated for release? Is it still sometime in June? What does the incremental release schedule look like before the final 3.0 release? Wha

Posted: Mar. 5, 2008 05:13 AM

DWR + Aptana Jaxer

I've been working with the guys from Aptana for the past week or so on adapting DWR to be a remoting layer for Jaxer. Jaxer is a way to run JavaScript on the server. But it's not just JavaScript as an alternative to Java/Ruby/PHP/etc. Jaxer is Moz

Posted: Mar. 4, 2008 10:29 AM

YOUR FEEDBACK

	Adobe CTO on the Great Shift From OS-Specific Apps to Web Apps By RIA News Desk Jerry Loggins wrote: I was trying to read this article and kept being thwarted by some kind of pop-up ads. Is this something you are allowing on purpose? I couldn't read the article, the ads wouldn't move away! Very discouraging!
	Cloud Computing Expo: Keynote on The Power of Infrastructure as a Service by Amazon's CTO By Cloud Computing News Desk Jeremy Geelan wrote: RightScale's CTO Thorsten von Eicken has an interesting article on Amazon's EBS announcement. It can be read here: http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/651027
	Development Tools For Cloud Computing By Christopher Keene NS wrote: What about other PaaS vendors like LongJump and Quickbase? Anyone have experience in using them?
	WebSphere Gets An AJAX Booster Shot, Eclipse Ganymede Support By RIA News Desk Java Application Development wrote: Great Post.... Java Developer...
	Cloud Computing: Clouds Should Be Open, Not Proprietary By David Young Genome wrote: Speaking of non-proprietary clouds, the guys at Red Hat have released the first version of a project called Genome. This looks to be an open source project that makes Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS clouds using Xen, KVM, and commodity hardware. Here's the link: http://genome.et.redhat....