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Firstly - thanks to everyone who has reached out to me in the last three weeks via email, phone call
Brad asked what the 'Open Web' is. Twice. My mum was always cross if she had to ask 3 times, so here
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Joe Walker

Defining The Open Web
Brad asked what the 'Open Web' is. Twice. My mum was always cross if she had to ask 3 times, so here's my stab. The Open Web is the user-remixable technologies that are shipped by the clear majority of major browsers So, for example: XHTML 2.0 is
Lessons from Hosting a Website
You might have noticed that the getahead.org domain has been replaced by directwebremoting.org. There’s a story behind it ... 3 years ago when DWR started to be successful, I bought 2 identical servers, built them identically with the latest Deb
Useful Feeds
How many blog posts start with the words "Sorry I've not been blogging much recently, but I resolve to post more often from now". Such a post may be followed by some actual substance, before the silence re-starts. This is not one of those posts. Ge
Big Question for Sun
It looks from the outside as though every spare resource that Sun has is going into JavaFX. JavaFX may or may not win against Flash/Flex/Air/Silverlight/Android/Ajax, but while Sun is concentrating on FX, it doesn't appear to be giving the Java langu
App Engine and Java
The world is now split into Python programmers, making funny 'Goo' noises over App Engine, and everyone else who are wondering when/if this will be available in their language or if they are going to have to change their spots. Of all the languages
Commercial Support for DWR
Short version: Commercial support and development assistance is now available for DWR. Long version: SitePen has been offering support packages for a while, but you've had to ask. But it's now an advertised service, if you want help with Dojo, DWR
IE8 Review
I've been playing with IE8 beta 1, and I've got some thoughts ... In terms of user visible HTML rendering features, I think IE 8 beta 1 is possibly the biggest release of IE in nearly 11 years since April 1997 when IE 4.0 alpha 1 was released. The h
InfoQ Interview
InfoQ interviewed me, and asked: What are some of the major features planned for [DWR] version 3.0? When is 3.0 slated for release? Is it still sometime in June? What does the incremental release schedule look like before the final 3.0 release? Wha
DWR + Aptana Jaxer
I've been working with the guys from Aptana for the past week or so on adapting DWR to be a remoting layer for Jaxer. Jaxer is a way to run JavaScript on the server. But it's not just JavaScript as an alternative to Java/Ruby/PHP/etc. Jaxer is Moz

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