Author Archives: Stavros Vologiannidis

Google just released Google Gears for pocket pcs

March 4, 2008
Off-line web applications are a big deal for many companies/projects such as Adobe/AIR, Mozilla/Prism, Google/Google Gears and possibly Microsoft/Silverlight. From gearsblog.blogspot.com: Gears for m...

Amazon for developers

March 4, 2008
Amazon Web Services and Amazon Business Solutions. They offer the following infrastructure services for developers: EC2=Elastic Compute Cloud (Computing/processing in a cloud) S3 = Storage in a cloud...

Startups,

March 2, 2008
“The Pmarca Guide to Startups” are a series of posts of Marc Andreessen who among others co-authored Mosaic. They date from June 25 2007 to August 30 2007 and still contain very interesti...

FreeBSD 7.0

March 1, 2008
which includes production quality (as some people say) Sun’s Z F S has been released ZFS Highlights Rock-solid data integrity. All data is protected by 256-bit checksums, data consistency is ma...

The server side of Ajax

March 1, 2008
From ajaxian.com In this podcast interview, Justin discusses all that has to happen on the server side in order to render Ajax and its related technologies on the client side, what the shift toward R...

Firefox 3 Performance Numbers

March 1, 2008
In ajaxian.com there is a benchmark for the javascript engines of several builds of browsers. Very impressive results.. The results of the SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark test Firefox 3 Nightly (PGO O...

Wadja.com, social networking using the phone’s web browser

March 1, 2008
www.wadja.com Mobile Web – Social messaging – Mobile media Ελληνική προσπάθεια, 750000 registered users, +3500 τη μέρα. Η παρουσίαση του wadja στο opencoffee στη Θεσσαλονίκη, την οποία κα...

Info for GWT

February 29, 2008
New (and not so new) technologies are taking the world of web application development by storm. Flex, Ajax (super-DHTML baptised in a fancy way), GWT etc. Fast Definition Google Web Toolkit is a Java...