Remote Procedure Calls in GWT
From google GWT RPC makes it easy for the client and server to pass Java objects back and forth over HTTP. When used properly, RPCs give you the opportunity to move all of your UI logic to the client...
Technology
Open-source scripting environment Komodo Edit 4.3
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080316-hands-on-open-source-scripting-environment-komodo-edit-4-3.html http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/komodo_edit.mhtml The free and open sourc...
From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/past-present-future-file-systems.ars A tongue-in-cheek historical review of most file systems, that can double as a quick history of operating systems. I found ...
Prism for the Desktop
Mozilla Labs last week released a new version of Prism, a single-site browser system that brings web applications to the desktop. The latest version is designed to work as a Firefox extension rather ...
No Time to Think
Where is the space and time in which we get quiet enough to think in deeper ways? Which are the tools to enable us do that? Very interesting/good talk, extremely interesting subject, nothing really n...
Sync your Google Calendar with your Microsoft Outlook
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=959 A standalone application that periodically syncs Outlook and Google Calendar. Several options are missing such as syncing multiple calendars. I would prefer it to...
Vortex: An offline abstraction on top of Google Gears
from ajaxian.com
Google just released Google Gears for pocket pcs
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...
Creating rich Internet applications on Linux with WebKit
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080303-creating-rich-internet-applications-on-linux-with-webkit.html The title says it all. It mostly talks about WebKit integration on Linux with the open-sour...
Amazon for developers
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...