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HTML 5 turns documents into applications

The W3C has published the first Working Draft of HTML 5 the first work done on HTML since HTML 4.01 has been published in December 1999. Everyone agrees that this is a big step, but in which direction?

Sun to buy the M from LAMP

Sun has announced their intention to buy MySQL, the number one database for web applications used both by Google et Amazon but also powering most of personal blogs.
Sun has considered that being the M from “LAMP” (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) would be a good way step to be the “.” in “.com” as [...]

To XForms or not to XForms?

Yahoo! has released Yahoo! Mobile Developer Platform sous le nom de « Blueprint » and the news has been widely commented by XForms fans: Micah Dubinko states that “Yahoo! introduces mobile XForms” and Erik Bruchez “Yahoo! goes XForms”
The roadmap published by Yahoo! appears to be much more cautious and just says “Much of [...]

Adios Syncato

It’s been fun to use Syncato, but the lack of any kind of efficient anti spam is really overwhelming and I had to switch to something else to reopen the comments that I had to close with Syncato.
I am giving a try to WordPress which is in a way the complete opposite of Syncato: I [...]

First contact with Facebook

Being already using LinkedIn and Video, I wasn’t really excited by joining yet another networking community, but a friend of mine kept saying that Facebook was different and more open and he convinced me to join insisting that his life would be easier if I joined a group he had created on this site.
You can’t [...]

A couple of things we got wrong ten years ago

I have started both to design web pages and to learn Java roughly ten years ago, back in 1996.
The first Web server I have ever used was a Netscape server. It came with built-in server side JavaScript and we were convinced that JavaScript would be a language of choice to develop server side Web applications.
Around [...]

Google API shift

Google kills their Search API. So what?
I have learned the news through David Megginson’s Quoderat under the title Beginning of the end for open web data APIs? but I don’t agree with his analysis even if it is shared by all the other posts I have read on the subject.
David writes: The replacement, Google AJAX [...]

Why XML Experts Should Care About Web 2.0

Here is the talk I had prepared for the Web 2.0 panel a the XML 2006 conference. This has been a very interactive panel and even though I haven’t pronounce exactly the same sentences, the message is the same.
I had proposed a whole session titled “Why XML Experts Should Care About Web 2.0”. I have [...]

Our Web 2.0 book appears to be tough to classify

I have arrived in Boston yesterday evening to participate to the XML 2006 conference.
Today, I spent most of my time walking in the town and I couldn’t resist to enter in the first bookshop I found to check if they had our new Web 2.0 book.
This bookshop happened to be Borders, 10 School Street and [...]

Professional Web 2.0 programming for real

I’have received my personal copies of our Web 2.0 book and they look really good.
I really like the kind foreword from Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, especially when she says this book is very much about how, through technology, you can capture and delight your users. This should be the tagline of our book!
She goes [...]