Ubuntu Here We Come! -
Java Finally To Become
100% Open Source
Reader wrote: Since
November 206, wow! that
is a long process.
May. 15, 2008 06:29 PM
|
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
YOUR FEEDBACK
Did you read today's front page stories & breaking news?
SOA World Conference
Virtualization Conference $200 Savings Expire May 16, 2008... – Register Today!
SYS-CON.TV |
TOP THREE LINKS YOU MUST CLICK ON AJAXWorld News Desk
Anthony Franco's AJAXWorld Keynote - "RIAs Are Only Valuable If They Are Useful"
EffectiveUI President explained the business value of RIAs in his AJAXWorld Keynote in March
By: RIA News Desk
Apr. 15, 2008 06:45 AM
Digg This!
Most of what is being produced even by the best Web designers right now is not useful, said EffectiveUI President Anthony Franco in his morning keynote at the 5th International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo in New York City last month. Displaying a Starbucks Coffee site that he called "awful" and a Target.com site that he called "not navigable," Franco recounted how his hunt for bad experiences - sites not talking to their customers - led him to the conclusion that companies are in love with "shiny objects" rather than actual useful and engaging online experiences.
"Respecting the emotive element of an application is important," said Franco. The "simplicity mantra" (simplicity, simplicity, simplicity) is over-rated. Not everything we do today can or should be simple. "The iPhone is not simple. It is probably one of the most sophisticated devices ever built. But it is engaging." "RIAs enable engaging experiences," Franco continued. "That's what Web 2.0 should be all about, not just novelty. AJAX is good, but it is not good enough. Developers need to listen to their customers and the mantra should be use the right tool for the job. Flash is not always bad, Microsoft does not always suck: designers and developers need to collaborate, product managers need to figure things out along the way..." Franco's keynote was just one of the 90+ sessions, presentations, discussion panels, and keynotes that together made up the 3-day conference program of the 5th International AJAXWorld.
LATEST JAVA STORIES & POSTS
SUBSCRIBE TO THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL NEWSLETTERS SUBSCRIBE TO OUR RSS FEEDS & GET YOUR SYS-CON NEWS LIVE!
|
SYS-CON FEATURED WHITEPAPERS MOST READ THIS WEEK BREAKING JAVA NEWS
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
| | | | | | | | |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|
|
| SYS-CON MEDIA: | | | | |
| SYS-CON EVENTS: | | | | | |
| INTERNATIONAL SITES: | | | | | | | | | | |
 |
Terms of Use & Our Privacy Statement  About Newsfeeds / Video Feeds |
| Copyright ©1994-2008 SYS-CON Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. All marks are trademarks of SYS-CON Media. |
| Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of SYS-CON Publications, Inc. is prohibited. |
.gif)
This is the story of a
Mac application developer
(okay - it's about two of
them) who set out on a
quest to find an
application development
tool based on Java so his
boss would let him
develop on the Mac
platform, which he loved.
There was only one catch
- he had to find a tool
th 
SOA is mostly associated
with technologies such as
BPEL, SCA and Web
Services. But does SOA
really imply these
technologies? In this
session we will show how
you can use the service
oriented approach while
staying inside the Java
world. jBPM is a powerful
lightweight framework th
Any large Java source
base can have insidious
and subtle bugs. Every
experienced Java
programmer knows that
finding and fixing these
bugs can be difficult and
costly. Fortunately,
there are a large number
of free open source Java
tools available that can
be used to find and fix d
One of the things I
really enjoy at the
moment is the recognition
and adoption of agile
programming as a fully
fledged powerful way to
deliver quality software
projects. As its
figurehead is a group of
very talented individuals
who have created the
agile manifesto
(http://agilema 
