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O’Reilly Radar > A Week in Chicago with Rails, Perl, and Django

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Nat Torkington gives the low on some developments in Ruby on Rails. He also has some words with Mr. Django.

Posted in AJAX, Python, Rails, Ruby, Software, Web 2.0, oreilly | 3 Comments »

Google Notebook

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

I’ve been playing with Google Notebook for the past few days as an adjunct to my del.icio.us links. All in all I like it, especially the Firefox extension that allows you to add notes to the current page without occluding it (unlike the del.icio.us extension). There are some gripes though. Firstly the search doesn’t seem to work, it can’t find a note with the string “VAT” in it despite me having a note defining my VAT number. Secondly, it appends notes to the end of the list rather than putting them at the top, blog style. This means you end up doing a lot of scrolling (especially as the search doesn’t work).

All in all I think I’ll stick with it a bit longer. The drag and drop on the notes page itself is sexalicious!

Posted in AJAX, Google, Software | No Comments »

Quick GWT Toolkit review

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

John writes about the GWT Toolkit on the Secantus blog. As a result of his investigations we are sticking with the Yahoo Toolkit for now.

Posted in AJAX, Software, Web 2.0, secantus | No Comments »

Web 2.0 vs Web 1.0

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML
Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS
Web 1.0 was about taxonomy, Web 2.0 is about tags
Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless
Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing
Web 1.0 was about IPOs, Web 2.0 is about trade sales
Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0 is about Google
Web 1.0 was about web forms, Web 2.0 is about web applications
Web 1.0 was about screen scraping, Web 2.0 is about APIs
Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0 is about broadband
Web 1.0 was about hardware costs, Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs

Posted in AJAX, Business, Ideas, RSS, Software, Web 2.0, bebo, broadband, del.icio.us, flickr | 56 Comments »

Darren gives Google Notebook a slap

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Darren is not too impressed with Google Notebook.

Is Notebook meant to compete with some existing product out there (if so which one?) or is it another flight of Fancy from Google Labs?

Posted in AJAX, Google, Software | 1 Comment »

Enterprise Ireland Web 2.0 Conference – delayed posting

Monday, May 15th, 2006

I took a lot of notes at the recent Web 2.0 conference and transcribed them from my own awful handwriting. I had great plans to write it up properly but work and buggy software conspired against me. So if you can stomach my disjointed and staccato note style you should browse over to Enterprise Ireland Web 2.0 : Conference Notes for my transcribed notes. All errors and omissions are mine and apologies to any of the speakers I misquoted.
Reminder of the speakers,