Listen kids, AJAX is not cool

The Last Craft? Marcus' blog on Agile Web Development >> Listen kids, AJAX is not cool: "I cannot think of a worse collision of technologies than low level user interfaces with requests over the internet. The delays and failures of internet traffic are especially painful in this environment and, from the AJAX demos I’ve seen, the developers aren’t helping."

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"Even when the process is improved, there is no guarantee that we have enhanced the user experience."

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"AJAX does have some uses. If you are exploring a dataset, you don’t want to fetch the core data again on every attempt to expand just a portion of the information."

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"AJAX has possibilities, but it’s not there yet. Not as a community and not with the tools. Web developers cannot become GUI developers overnight. We need time."

bottom line er vel at det er store fall-gruver...

Sage: a feed reader for Firefox

Sage: a feed reader for Firefox: "Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox."

for dei som har firefox og vil fylgja med teknowatch i eit sidevindu.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft adopts web file styles

BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft adopts web file styles: "By late 2006 all the files created by users of its Office suite of software will be formatted with web-centred XML specifications."

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" limited support for XML started with Office 2003. This under-the-hood change made it easier for developers to get other programs working with the Office software suite."

Eclipse 3.1 RC1 released

Eclipse 3.1 RC1 released: "Eclipse 3.1 RC1 has been released for download. This is primarily a release candidate build; there are no 'new and noteworthy' notes compared to the M7 release. Most changes are bug fixes.

The final build of Eclipse 3.1 is expected in late June 2005."

LoremIpsum Content Generator (mozilla extension)

Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:LoremIpsum Content Generator - All Releases: "Uses latin words to create filler content."

noko for både design og backend...
hhv design-eksempel og test-innhald...

Luntbuild 1.2, Build Automation and Management Server, Released

Luntbuild 1.2, Build Automation and Management Server, Released:
"Luntbuild 1.2, a build automation and management server with a web application as front end, has been released with new features of Maven support, project dependency configuration, role based security, and more. One of its build management features is that it's able to categorize build results, such that you might be able to label a given build as being flawed or beta quality.

Luntbuild is designed to be installed quickly, such that a build portal can be set up for a team to enable continuous integration tasks. Since continuous integration tends to yield a lot of builds (see "Daily builds with Luntbuild"), the labeling feature can be very important."
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"It was easy to install, easy to setup, it is easy to maintain and I can't think of any major flaws that would prevent me from continuing to use it."
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"Luntbuild is not just a continuous integration system. It's a full automated build and build management system. I've got our QA looking at using it for all of their builds (not scheduled, triggered manually) and for build management and promotion. "