May 2007 - Posts

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:33 AM

MS PopFly vs Yahoo! Pipes

I wonder who is copying who (^_^), but suffice to say both are great ideas.
Although Yahoo! Pipes (built on top JavaScript and SVG) and Microsoft PopFly (Silverlight) are built using different techniques, both are excellent tools to create web mashup and consume online content.

Check them out.


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Monday, May 07, 2007 4:14 PM

Newsbreaker

MSNBC launched a Silverlight Breakout game :)
You can try it here.



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Friday, May 04, 2007 10:59 AM

Interesting AJAX Benchmark

Came across this site while reading AJAXIAN.


Basically, it's a benchmark on different AJAX method.  It measures the usage of bandwidth and execution time.

So far, for pure AJAX, looks like it's AJAX using JSON serialization is the best choice.
For those using FLEX, FLEX using AMF3 serialization is your best bet.

Don't get fooled by the DOJO benchmark since it's only pulling 500 data instead of 5000 (like the rest).


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Thursday, May 03, 2007 3:22 PM

SubSonic, actionpack

This is a pretty cool OR/M tool that can either generate code / build the object model from your database objects on the fly.  All you need to do is point it to where the database is and it will do the rest.  It even let you create a CRUD (they call it scaffold) page for the database object just by adding a web control to your blank ASP.NET page.

It comes w/ a dynamic query engine that will work with multiple database (MySql and SqlServer).

Go get it here.


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Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:35 PM

Dynamic Language Runtime

I was just going through the MIX session video on this topic and it just blew my mind :).
Just by installing Silverlight 1.1 Alpha runtime and Silverlight 1.1 Alpha SDK, you can code (client side) in VB / IronPython / Ruby / CSharp / JScript and have them interact against one another in your browser.

This is just COOL!! :)

To get the Silverlight stuffs, go here.

And you need to get the Ruby language provider also... Still looking where tho... anyone?
Oops... apparently the Ruby language provider is not out yet (see this article).

ps.  VB and C# code will still need to be compiled into a dll.  The rest of the dynamic languages like JScript, Ruby, IronPython can run without prior compilation.

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