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Ajax'd Scrabble

Via Ajaxian , you can now enjoy Wabble , a browser-friendly way of convincing your friends that you didn't just invent the words hunormous or tagtastic. Or, you could try to score more ligitimate big points with hits such as sleazier and grazings . (fixed typo in the title...oh, the ironay!)

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-23-2007
1 in 4 Developers To Get RESTed

AJAXWorld has reported a couple of interesting data points from Evans Data Corp’s latest Web Services Development Survey (the article refers to the Spring 2006 survey - I think this is a typo as the Winter 2006 Survey has come out). First, The REST (Representational State Transfer) 'style'...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-22-2007
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and links

Scott Guthrie has announced the final release of ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (aka "Atlas"). Other related links worth checking out: Brad Abrams on AJAX for ISVs (video) Scott Guthrie - MIX07, Work, and Personal Details Revealed (video) ASP.NET AJAX Forums NikHilk has traced back some of the history behind...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-23-2007
Q406 computer books sales

Tim O'Reilly has posted the second part of the Q406 computer books sales report , comparing Q4 2006 with Q4 2005. This is for top selling computer-related books sales in the US, not just O'Reilly titles. Always interesting as an indicator of trends. Here the highlights for me...The following...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 01-17-2007
2007 to be a big year for 'Rich Internet Applications'

The following is a short description of Adobe's play for 2007 - Apollo - big news in my opinion: "Apollo, the code name for “a cross-operating system runtime” is a platform that will allow developers to create to desktop applications using existing web development skills such as...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 12-16-2006
JavaScript crazy talk!

Mike Dierken pointed yesterday to this 1998 article by Greg Travis where Travis proposed that we look JavaScript at in a different way to how it was popularly used at the time, and argued that JavaScript had the potential to provide a more responsive experience over the web: "In particular, we are...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-18-2006
War 2.0

This mashup is clever. Via John Musser's ProgrammableWeb : "The First MMO Real Time Strategy on Google Maps. Take over the world in this real time Risk-like game based on Google Maps." Sign up is pretty painless, but a problem finding players - you need a minimum of two, so you could end...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-20-2006
Atlas Beta (or Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 Beta)

Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 Beta (code-named “Atlas”) is now available to download - it provides a preview of the fully-supported version of ASP.NET AJAX scheduled for release by the end of this year. Frank Arrigo has some useful links relating to this release. Update: Microsoft's Scott...

Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 10-20-2006

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