Tag Archives: web applications

Google pop at IE

By Dhiren | Published: August 4, 2010
Just catching up on the Google IO conferences and this pop at Internet Explorer made smile. It shows how the new versions of Open Source browsers will utilise HTML 5 to support desktop APIs. The support of desktop APIs will make web applications more like the desktop applications that we’re used to. By the end [...]
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JQuery is child’s play right?

By Dhiren | Published: November 23, 2008
I found this tutorial the other day on the Google tech talks channel. They have a 12 year old child genius giving a lecture on JQuery to a class full of adults. Look at how confident he his as a presenter, very impressive! JQuery is essentially a Javascript library, which is used by many designers/developers [...]
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Development Frameworks

By Dhiren | Published: November 19, 2008
With so many new web-applications and social websites on the web, I decided to take a step away from the websites themselves and instead deconstruct and analyse the technologies which power them. Most developers currently seem to use MVC architecture based frameworks (MVC stands for Model View Controller), the most talked about MVC based framework [...]
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FOWA

By Dhiren | Published: October 15, 2008
I was at FOWA for the second day of the conference last week, it was an insightful day out of the office and I walked out feeling quite informed about all things going on in the world of web apps and social websites. My day kicked off with Tim Bray giving a good on talk [...]
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Marking up websites for The Semantic Web

By Dhiren | Published: August 17, 2008
We’re at a point now where we’re seriously talking to clients about semantically marking up their websites. The problem is clients a) don’t like jargon and b) Just want to know business implications and benefits. So many people are baffled by techies jabbering away about the semantic web and the components that enable it. There [...]
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