http://canoo.com/blog Web 2.0 Technology Blog on Java RIA, AJAX and Flex Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:49:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are pleased to announce that the maintenance release UltraLightClient ‘08 Update 3 is now available for download. This is a maintenance release for UltraLightClient ‘08. Please see the release notes for a list of implemented feature requests and fixed problem reports. Please note: the UltraLightClient ‘08 license key is valid for ... http://canoo.com/blog/2009/07/02/maintenance-release-ultralightclient-%e2%80%9808-update-3/   The Summer '09 issue of our RIA Newsletter is available. Be informed about the following topics:   JavaOne 2009: Sun's Open Cloud Platform and Java Store, JavaFX 1.2 Larry Ellison (CEO Oracle) on the future of Java  Dierk König (Canoo Fellow) on "Beauty and Code" Jazoon 2009: James Gosling, Jazoon Rookies User Interface evolution: The Age of ... http://canoo.com/blog/2009/07/01/ria-newsletter-summer-issue-2009/ A day after the fact and I feel that my time spent at Jazoon '09 was definitely worth while. I attended some genuinely top-quality talks, had some great discussions with peers and potential clients; plus I got to meet the man who started it all: James Gosling. Conference host Christian Frei ... http://canoo.com/blog/2009/06/26/jazoon-09-some-final-thoughts/   Speaker: Linda Y. Cureton, CIO, Goddard Space Flight Center     The speaker declares her goal today as to inspire the audience... Some background information ensues on the history of the Goddard Space Flight Center, which has a site here. She describes the culture as being one of pioneering, not being used to failure and ... http://canoo.com/blog/2009/06/26/jazoon-09-nasa-keynote/   Session title: Wuala Webstart - Launching a Java Application directly from a Website Speakers: Luzius Meisser – Caleido AG / Wuala     Luzius describes Wuala (which I've never heard of until now) as an all for offline file-storage. The goal was to make this available in as many contexts as possible, and to ... http://canoo.com/blog/2009/06/26/jazoon-09-deploying-java-apps-from-a-website/   Session title: Agile and Secure; Can we do Both? Speakers: Jason Li & Jerry Hoff, Aspect Security  Goal: To try to get developers to think about security early on in the development process. Jason begins with a brief description of a common security flaw (in AJAX apps at least) XSS, which typically ... http://canoo.com/blog/2009/06/25/jazoon-09-addressing-security-in-the-agile-process/ Session title: Metering the Cloud, applying ABC from code profiling up to performance cost management of cloud computing Speaker: William Louth, JINSPIRED To quote Monty Python: And now for something complete different. William correctly notes that ABC is an accepted accounting practice. Novel: A movie excerpt (THX1138). In the portrayed world every activity has ... http://canoo.com/blog/2009/06/25/jazoon-09-activity-based-costing-and-the-cloud/ Session title: Programming the Semantic Web with Java Speaker: Taylor Cowan, Travelocity Taylor claims to quote Niel Ford (prior keynote): "The best way to predict the future is to create it"... and doesn't appear aware that he's actually quoting Abraham Lincoln. Taylor shows a couple of sites which exhibit the semantic web, ... http://canoo.com/blog/2009/06/25/jazoon-09-semantic-web/ 'Groovy Usage Patterns by Dierk König' is currently being showcased on the 'Technology' page on SlideShare. Enjoy! Groovy Usage Patterns by Dierk KönigView more Microsoft Word documents from First Last. http://canoo.com/blog/2009/06/25/dierks-groovy-usage-patterns-showcased/ Keynote title: The Changing Nature of Enterprise Java Application Development Speaker: Adrian Colyer CTO SpringSource Adrian - perhaps principally of AspectJ fame - begins by stating that we live interesting times and that "seeds of change" are present... which leads naturally enough to a rain-forest metaphor. To cut a long story short: ... http://canoo.com/blog/2009/06/25/jazoon-09-keynote-with-springsources-adrian-colyer/