Andre’s Blog

Notes from the second Nitobi 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

• Drunkandretired.com

Java and AJAX

• Dave’s Jupiter Media Webinar June 14th - http://developer.com
• What’s most popular?

• JSF

• Struts

• Spring

JSF AJAX Combo Box Alpha from Nitobi - http://labs.ebusiness-apps.com

Java IDEs

• NetBeans
• Java Studio Creator
• Eclipse

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://www.nitobi.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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