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9 Responses to “AJAX in 5 Minutes at VEF Web2.0 Event”

1. Mark Yuasa Says:
   October 28th, 2005 at 4:40 pm

   Hi Andre, I noticed that the PPT up here didn’t have all the slides from last night’s talk. I was just looking for the links you posted up on the very last slide. Were you gonna put up an updated one? Thanks.

2. xian Says:
   October 28th, 2005 at 5:12 pm

   Great, straight forward presentation. One suggestion though, just to make life easier on you 🙂
   At the end, add the bit about XUL, XAML, MXML.
   These are really the future, and the still use the concepts of AJAX (XMLRPC).

3. Andre Says:
   October 29th, 2005 at 5:19 pm

   Hey Mark,

   Sorry, I was a little under the weather Friday, and just posted the slides from Thursday’s presentation this morning. You can find it here: http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/andre/?p=52

   Thanks for coming to the talk, hope you enjoyed it!

4. Andre Says:
   October 29th, 2005 at 5:45 pm

   Hey Xian,

   Thanks for coming to my talk and for the compliments. I agree that some decalarative XML language like XAML, XUL or MXML will be the future. Though not sure if any of it or mentioning it at the end of my presentation will make my life any easier:) But I will add something as I believe it is important for developers in this area to be aware of these upcoming technologies. My concern about this group of technologies is that they are all from seperate camps (XAML = Microsoft, XUL = Mozilla, MXML = Macromedia) and likely for competitive reasons adoption will be much slower that it could be for these technologies. That being said we’re keeping a close eye on these technologies in terms of their progression and how we can borrow from their current strengths in an open AJAX environment.

5. xian Says:
   November 2nd, 2005 at 4:45 pm

   Yes it is definitely scary to see the fracturing of the market and no single standard. But I think they all are very similiar. But how about a slide like this:

   AJAX != Fad

   – Javscript – Scripting languages are the future
   – Easily accessable, small learning curve, interpreted feddback
   – XML – Becoming the standard for data interopprability
   – Soon to be standard for Interface declaration

   Examples:
   – XUL – Mozilla Foundation (eg. Firebox, etc)
   – MXML – Adobe/Macromedia (eg. Flex/Flash Professional)
   – XAML – Windows Vista (.Net Framework)

   Sorry for the bad spelling (upgrade to TinyMCE!)
   Later, Christian

6. Andre Says:
   November 3rd, 2005 at 1:28 pm

   Hey Xian,

   That’s a great suggestion! I think I’ll add something like that and also include something about Flash as a standalone and integrated with AJAX for RIA. I think there’s a lot more synergies than most people are aware right now.

   Andre.

7. g i l g a m e s h . c a » Puretracks: Record labels Forced Mac Incompatibility Says:
   November 15th, 2005 at 12:12 am

   […] One of the speakers was Andre Charland, who happens to sit on the board of Puretracks, the music service that (he said) has more more market share in Canada than Apple’s iTunes. (Here’s his blog post about the evening.) […]

8. Andre Says:
   November 16th, 2005 at 2:40 pm

   Hi John,

   I think you’re looking for Geoff Hansen from Rocket Builders. I have nothing to do with Puretracks. I was the AJAX guy;-)
   Maybe you can update your blog to reference him.

   Thanks.

   Andre.

9. Andre’s Blog » Blog Archive » CBS Marketwatch – A questionable use of AJAX Says:
   December 31st, 2005 at 12:09 am

   […] CBS Marketwatch – A questionable use of AJAX So CBS Marketwatch uses AJAX to update stock prices in-line in the article, and there’s a bunch of people who don’t like it and find it distracting.  I can see their point…having text in an article change as your reading it does make it hard to focus.  Mind you reading and article with stock prices that are wrong probably isn’t that helpful either, and in a site that’s called Marketwatch chances are people would like to know what the market is currently at. (I think…admitedly most of the stock I’ve ever owned was given to be my tech companies I consulted for so I didn’t have stock quotes streamed to cell phone)      Jason Fried from 37Signals doesn’t like this and thinks it’s AJAX overkill.  Paul Kedrosky doesn’t think much of it either.  I think that’s kind of funny because I almost used this as example of AJAX in a Web2.0 panel I presented at with Paul earlier this year.  Paul’s point about real-time quotes that are actually delayed is well taken.   However, they also has a neat hover feature on the ticker symbol that gives you a real time graph view of the stocks performance.  I think it’s very handy because you don’t have to do to a new page to get this small, but pertinent, bit of data.   I think they could combine these features in a Tufte like manner and really help users absorb information faster with animated / real-time sparklines graphs.  That could also be viewed as distracting though I suppose.    Interesting to see AJAX adoption in new places and the debate around it’s merits and pit falls.  This type of discussion is much more interesting than just listening to people whine about broken back-buttons (which are broken in most web applications, NOT just AJAX apps!), etc…   Technorati Tags : AJAX, Usability, Sparklines […]

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