EBA Podcast Episode # 2 – Notes | May 31st, 2006
Notes from the second EBA Podcast. Recorded with Andre Charland, Dave Johnson and Alexei White.
Yahoo API’s versus Google versus eBay APIs
- Geo Coding and Mapping APIs
- tight licensing, despite the appearance (the illusion of freedom)
- can’t put them behind a log-in for example
- hard to build a business model
- Alexei is working on an RIA / AJAX polling and survey tool
- Dave was looking at eBay API for a grid demo to show off live scrolling and updating of auction items
- Yahoo Maps may not be quite as good, but the APIs are more powerful and flexible
- Will more open win? Or will better software win?
- How are these companies going to build business models
- Who’s going to provide the micropayments?
- Pushpin have the same data
- Yahoo Patterns will have an API soon
- Amazon Web Services Site
- S3 REST based storage service
- Mechanical Turk – is an addictive
Windows Live Mail
- I like deleting with the keyboard, and there should way more keyboard nav on the web
Translating higher level languages to Javascript
- Morphik suing the internet and google WTF mate
- Reg has a blog post about it: http://web2.0central.com/archives/202
- Dear Pioneers! WTF
Enterprise AJAX – the book we’re writing
- MVC
- send us suggestions: djohnson [at] ebusiness [dash] apps [dot] com
- We need Enterprise class AJAX case studies: awhite [at] ebusiness [dash] apps [dot] com
Podcasting with cote and charles about enterprise AJAX on Thursday
Java and AJAX
- Dave’s Jupiter Media Webinar June 14th – http://developer.com
- What’s most popular?
- JSF
- Struts
- Spring
Java IDEs
Who’s looking at this?
- http://eclipse-ecosystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/indeed-some-work-to-do-in-eclipse.html
- http://google.com/trends?q=eclipse+java%2C+netbeans%2C+intellij%2C+jbuilder%2C+jdeveloper&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
- Tim O’reilly: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/02/whats_up_with_netbeans.html
Grid 3.05 Release: http://developer.ebusiness-apps.com/technologies/webdevelopment/codeandcomponents/ebagrid/default.htm
- Improved Toolbar
- Performance way up! Faster smoother user experience!
- Fixed some character and encoding issues
- Size / Footprint has been cut down
- Check out the demos
- We’re releasing that May 31st
Hipsters! Get’ em
- How to know when you have a hipster infestation: http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/spoofs_satire/do_you_have_hipsters.php
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