Archive for April, 2007
links for 2007-04-29
Building an Instant Messaging Application Using Jabber/XMPP @ JAVA DEVELOPER’S JOURNAL
his article will describe our experiences with developing a Java-based instant messenger application using Jabber/XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) - a free, open and public protocol and technology for instant messaging.
(tags: xmpp java jabber programming)
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links for 2007-04-27
SIMILE | Timeline
Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally.
(tags: community coding ajax timeline javascript web2.0 web)
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Oh boy!
Oh man, this is getting better! Check this out:
Adobe is announcing tonight that the Flex SDK will be open sourced under the Mozilla public license, the same license that they open sourced the Action Script VM under (the Tamarin project). The move is just the latest in a trend of an increasingly open ecosystem around [...]
links for 2007-04-26
The Expansion of Social Networks
Inventing new software for enterprises is really hard. Selling it to them is nearly impossible. For a startup to break through the thick doors of the enterprise takes years.
(tags: web2.0 community socialnetworking social analysis networking online)
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How Digg.com uses the LAMP stack to scale upward
Caching and ’sharding’ data speeds up the social media Web site
April 24, 2007 (Computerworld) — Digg.com credits two particular features of its LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server cluster for helping the news aggregation site maintain speedy performance in the face of high growth.
The site, which lets its users vote on, or "digg," their [...]
Morad Rayyan is IT professional specialized in New Media development and has special interest in networking "routing" as well as programming.
