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Silverlight About to Gain Some Ground

2008-04-29T11:49:00.003-05:00

Obviously, it has been a long time since I have written a blog post. Life is busy. New company, new kid on the way, and some other excuses... ANYWAY, I'm back in the saddle again.For my first "returning to blogging" post here I just want to comment on the announcement from NBC (covered on ZDNet here).This is some pretty big news as far as a marketing story. I'm sure plenty of MS haters have

Gartner's Predictions Predict Exactly What We've Been Doing... Uncanny!

2007-10-10T08:03:00.001-05:00

Today, via my Google Alert, via ZDNet (http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6560), Gartner has published a list of what they view as the top 10 strategic technologies for 2008. #7 is "Web Platforms"... and I think they're right on the money. Especially since we'll be launching our Complete Web Platform in 2008! The article has this poignant quote: Longer term, however, Web platforms will be the model

WebWidgetry(tm)'s New Blogging Platform

2007-09-07T09:15:00.001-05:00

The team at Nth Penguin, LLC, of which I am a part, and whom collectively owns the WebWidgetry(tm) and MashupStudio(tm) vision, also owns quite a few premium domains that as mentioned in this post will be utilized for various pieces of our platform. Today, I'd like to point you towards what will be our new main blogging site: WidgetsAndMashups.com. There are only two posts up there right now, but

Oracle Presentation Recap

2007-06-27T09:26:00.001-05:00

So, last week Friday we took part in an Oracle User Group meeting, in which we presented our vision for the complete web platform (i.e. WebWidgetry(tm) and MashupStudio(tm)). The response was very interesting. It became apparent to us that the canonical enterprise today is still struggling quite a bit with where to find the value in many of the "Web2.0" concepts and tools. For a lot of people,

Presenting WebWidgetry at an Oracle User Group

2007-06-21T22:33:00.000-05:00

Tomorrow (or today depending on what time I actually get this posted tonight) we will be giving a presentation of our web platform vision at an Oracle User Group meeting. We were invited by a Senior Solution Architect within Oracle, with an aim at eliciting insight from their customers on what they would like to see in such a platform. This will be both an education in market research and public

From Libraries to Platforms

2007-06-18T23:58:00.001-05:00

We, as web developers, are living in a maelstrom of innovation today. There are literally hundreds of frameworks and libraries out there for us to choose from. They range from the low level abstractions to the complete deal... from javascript sweetness to tools aimed at people who don't want to learn javascript. What's happening now, though, is we are seeing quite a bit of code and concept

EventPublisher: custom events a la pub/sub using prototype.js

2007-03-29T09:18:00.000-05:00

Look at this: two blog posts in as many weeks. Maybe I can do this after all :-)Ok, so I'm kind of building up to a post I have in mind for a little later where I'll explore, in-depth, my simple approaches to implementing classical underpinnings in javascript (including a discussion on the many benefits of doing so). My previous post speaks to one of the fundamental things that would be on any

Multiple inheritance with prototype.js

2007-03-23T08:58:00.000-05:00

As I promised way back in my first post, (which was only 3 posts ago so not really that long right? lol), here is a bit of code.Really, my contribution to this code is almost nothing, but I have changed someone else's code enough to where I think the result could be useful for someone else, so here it is.The original code is from Kevin Lindsey's blog. He offers up a pretty nice little inheritance

Widgets Saving the World

2007-02-27T09:42:00.000-06:00

Since I am not currently able to blog like a true blogger (that is, remotely regularly), I figure I ought to try to at least make this space on the web serve some purpose. So here is my 18Seconds.org (http://www.18seconds.org) badge... may the world be a greener place (at least a little) because of my blog: (I found this via this blog post)