Attended the Phoenix java user group yesterday.. I attend it on and off.. Google was the sponsor yesterday. They have set up a development shop in Tempe.
Won an "Blogger" t-shirt in the raffle. Can u believe. :). Smita (her first meeting) also had a raffle ticket .. so I am not sure if she won or I won.. WE won :)
We spoke about the Google Maps API .. Mashups .. some very interesting applications
checkout www.weatherbonk.com for kicks
posted by Nitin Mulimani @ 8:45 AM
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that's another incentive to attend these meetings.
there is some businessweek presentation on the 25 hot companies
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/23/smbusiness/business2_nextnet_intro/index.htm
Zimbra is one killer app for email/calendar. It's based on AJAX.
Coming to buzzword these days is AJAX :). It's pretty cool technology. Funny I hated working on javascript, and now looks like it's the new rave.
SOA - here is my take
1) I love it for the fact it can provide me thos loose coupling
2) But still somebody needs to justify me the extra payload that going back and forth in the HTTP protocal. What about performance? Well, we can always cluster the app, but is this another way to sell boxes for the hardware companies. But hey wait.. we can have a cheap linux server farm doing the same for us :)
Think hard
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