Rich Internet Applications presentation

Today I gave a presentation for TCS Knowledge Sharing session here in Dusseldorf. It was about Rich Internet Applications, how they are working, which technologies are used and so on.

Since it was my private time that I've spend on it you can also have a look on that, so I've published it here.

It's 3.5 megabyte PDF file, original presentation was made with wonderful tool from Apple, Keynote.

Tapestry 5 Java User Group

Yesterday, my self and my friend Igor Drobiazko presented the Tapestry 5 on the local Java User Group in Düsseldorf. It went very well, there was around 80 people to watch our presentation, and the audience was very responsive and allot of interesting questions were asked. We really enjoyed the presentation and the conversations after it!

We even meet some people from the Tapestry community there, so for example Nils Günther have traveled from Hamburg to Düsseldorf (which is quite a trip for Germany) to participate.
So here is the photo of Igor, me and Nils:


Was nice to meet him offline :)

The presentation is already online, you can get it from here.

Soon I will add some photos from the event (they are now processed from RAW format).

YUI

I was playing with YUI recently. YUI is not only three consequential buttons on the keyboard, it's a Yahoo UI library, fully JavaScript driven. It's similar to Dojo where you can have all the kind of UI elements such as tabbed panes, dialogs, layouts, tables and trees.

It's really nice an could be a very good base for "second generation AJAX" applications. Applications where data is delivered from the server via Async XML HTTP Request (and most probably JSON) and rendered by Javascript. The main difference from "classical AJAX" is that we are not sending HTML from server just to do a partial request, but client application has a notion of "model" and "view" rendered by Javascript.

The main difference of YUI to other frameworks are mainly huge user base, excellent documentation, huge number of examples and high quality you can expect from company like Yahoo.

It's online now! Our Tapestry 5 Article on InfoQ!

Hi!

Today it happened! At last! Our (my self and Igor Drobiazko) article "Tapestry for Nonbelievers" is published on InfoQ!

Check it here: http://www.infoq.com/articles/tapestry5-intro

The article was written quite a while ago. We've got allot of help and support from Howard. We really appreciate his help and without him this article would be much less that it is now.

Then we tried to publish it first on TSS . It was reviewed and accepted and then... nothing. For more than 6 weeks, just nothing, and our emails were ignored :( so, too bad we thought, therefore... 

We sent article to InfoQ there it was also reviewed and accepted, and .... after some time, it's eventually online. 

In the end it was very good experience in writing articles (it wasn't my first article though). We really enjoyed working on it. And off course we hope that with our small contribution more people will see how Web application can be constructed nowadays.

P.S. We are now preparing a talk for our local Java User Group. You can guess what the topic will be :)

At last

After so many days. It's there.

Ebay + Eclipse

Very nice article about Ebay and Eclipse :) they seems to be not very well fit together, but just read this

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-eclipse-ebay1/index.html

Idea

Downloading idea. Eager to try it :)