Pattern: Concurrent Document Loader Problem: Need to load multiple documents and can't proceed until all of them are loaded Example: Load configuration files for an AJAX application

Like so many of the ideas that tumble out of the Googleplex into the public domain, Google Trends is irresistible. Jeremy Geelan puts the application, newly taken out of beta and now available to all cyberspace from the Google main page, through its paces by taking it out for a giddy s...

Not since the formation of NATO in 1945 have four letters been combined to such effect, nor has any 4-letter acronym since then been the subject of such hyperbole. (Quod erat demonstrandum.)

In this series of interviews with some of the movers and shakers behind the OpenAJAX initiative, SYS-CON West Coast Bureau Chief Roger Strukhoff speaks with IBM's David Boloker, Oracle's Ted Farrell, Zimbra's Scott Dietzen, Laszlo's David Temkin, Novell's former CTO Charlie Ungashick, ...

Hard on the heels of Google's acquisition of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) start-up Upstartle LLC and its Writely.com beta word processor a couple of weeks ago, Michael Robertson - who started Linspire, née Lindows, the Linux operating system company that won a $20M settlement out of Mi...

'Most people really like the embedded Google Maps, but don't know how easy it is to add them to any page,' writes Joshua Siler of Exploration Age and Kinetic Theory, Inc. In this How-To Guide he shows how it's done. Says Siler: 'With a little bit of HTML knowledge, anyone can quickly h...

If you want to learn AJAX you should probably buy a few books, buy an AJAX IDE, and go to a few training classes. But first, why not mingle with people that already know it, by visiting the very latest and fastest-growing AJAX website, http://ajax.sys-con.com - it's where the prime mov...

I try not to write too much about technical topics on this blog but the story of AJAX and related developments in the rich internet application (RIA) space has been an incredible story in 2005. For example, AJAX was only a term coined in February with publication of the now-famous and ...

Recently, a number of Web sites have begun to raise some eyebrows within the developer community. What's unique about these sites is that they behave more like a desktop application than a Web application. As you interact with them, they quickly display an endless amount of information...

'We've seen the Web moving from a publishing paradigm to an e-business paradigm to an AJAX paradigm.' That is the considered verdict of IBM Software Group's CTO of Emerging Internet Technologies, David Boloker. And he's right: AJAX is here, it's growing, and it's (potentially) the bigg...

This is traditionally the time of year for SYS-CON Media's round-up of i-Technology predictions from around the Web, and this year's harvest of thoughts and viewpoints is more varied than ever. 2006 promises to be a vintage year for software development, according to SYS-CON's globe-sp...

Paolo Massa is Web-famous for predicting AJAX Office would become a reality within a year. Now he considers the Sun-Google announcement and what it might mean for the prospects of OpenOffice and Google coming preinstalled on the PCs of the world.

The publicity that AJAX grabbed over the last half a year is based on closing the gap between the Web applications and the desktop applications, combining the 'reach' and 'rich.' At the same time, the gap between the technological level of AJAX and what corporate developers expect in t...

'Though it's been around for a while, AJAX is now a hot topic in the application developer community because it brings cross-platform rich user interfaces to web applications without having to use products like Microsoft .NET or Macromedia,' said Steve Benfield as he announced that his...