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A Look at the Buzzword Spell Checker Implementation
In Buzzword’s September release, spell checking support was added to the online word processor built using the Adobe Flex Framework. This week, David Coletta from the Buzzword team is sharing details on this part of their implementation in his blog posting, "Buzzword Spell Checking Internals."
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Zoho Leverages Google Gears to Provide Offline Support for Ajax Applications
Zoho, a online office productivity software company, recently extended its flagship AJAX based RIA product Zoho Writer with offline capabilities using Google Gears. InfoQ.com spoke to Raju Vegesna of Zoho to learn more about the process.
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Buzzword – RIA Word Processor: Built Using Adobe Flex / AIR
Adobe recently acquired Virtual Ubiquity, the creators of Buzzword - a web based word processor. InfoQ.com connected with David Coletta and Tad Staley of Adobe Systems to learn more about the product, the challenges and benefits of using Adobe Flex for its development, and what the future holds for the product.
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Interview with Mads Kristensen of BlogEngine.NET
In the first we hope to be a series on .NET in the open source world, we interviewed Mads Kristensen of BlogEngine.NET. Mads discusses how a focus on simplicity and an avoidance of third-party dependencies differentiates his project from other ASP.NET based blog platforms.
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Lord Of The Rings: Web Style
Paul Downey has produced a Lord of the Rings style adventuring map for SOA, titled The Web Is Agreement.
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Microsoft Releases JavaScript Compatibility Study for IE, Firefox, Opera, and Safari
Historically JavaScript compatibility has been a major problem for web developers. Variations between the official spec, the de-facto standard, and the various implementations have kept many a developer up all night. To address this, Microsoft has released a document detailing these incompatibilities in the four most popular browsers.
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Adobe and the Future of Software
Adobe has been up to some interesting things of late from their work with Adobe Flex, to their efforts on the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), and their recent announcement that they intend to move all of their software to the web in a model know as Software as a Service (SaaS).
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Adobe AIR Application: Spaz - a Twitter Client
Last week, arstechnica.com published an interview with Ed Finkler, the creater of Spaz – an open source Twitter client written using the Adobe AIR platform. In the interview, Finkler discusses Spaz, how and why he selected the AIR platform, and some of the challenges of upgrading Spaz to the latest AIR beta 2 release.
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IBM announces a broad set of new product releases, services offerings and the SOA Sandbox
IBM announced a wide update to its SOA product line and services offerings. In addition, it published a large collection of white papers, presentations and labs as part of the SOA Sandbox.
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Support Multiple AJAX Frameworks with OpenAjax Hub
From time to time web developers may find that they need to leverage more than one Ajax framework in a single web site. Perhaps they are working on mashups or portals, or maybe they simply cannot do everything they need with a single framework. Whatever the reason, OpenAjax Hub is the solution to their problem.
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JBoss RichFaces 3.1: Ajax4JSF and Exadel RichFaces integrated as single open source library
JBoss, a division of RedHat, recently released version 3.1 of the RichFaces JSF library. Stemming from a partnership with Exadel, this release is the first one to integrate the Ajax4JSF project with the formerly commercial RichFaces. InfoQ took the opportunity to learn more about RichFaces and what this release brings to the JSF space.
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The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Has Been Updated
The AJAX Control Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0 has been updated. Nothing new was added, but the bug fixes are sure to be welcome. In related news, a VS 2008 Beta 2 compatible version was also released with a couple of interesting features. And in case you did not know, they are now accepting patches.
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Halo 3 Site Demonstrates Flaws in SilverLight
With all the buzz about Halo 3, Microsoft couldn't help but to use it as an excuse to make users download SilverLight. But like Flash, it has some serious flaws.
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A Fix for ASP.NET AJAX on the iPhone
According to Matt Gibbs, the 1.01 update to iPhone degrades the asynchronous features of Microsoft's AJAX library, specifically in its JSON serializer. Matt has provided instructions on how to fix this by altering the regular expressions used in the library.
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MSXML 4 is Not Going to be Disabled
Back in March we reported that Microsoft was going to "killbit" MSXML 4. Due to its wide use and a lack of a suitable replacement, they have rescinded that decision.