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Visual WebGUI (VWG) discussed live with Jeremy Geelan at the 5th International AJAXWorld Conference in NYC. Visual WebGui Guy Peled from GIZMOX explains how VWG is an open source rapid application development (RAD) framework for line-Of-business AJAX & Silverlight GUIs. "It cuts down development time (proven up to 90%)," Peled tells Jeremy Geelan. Asaf Saar from SAP then recounts how Visual WebGUI has helped him at SAP - without compromising on extensibility, scalability, performance, security or complexity.read more

Hot on the heels of the recent ASP.NET AJAX roadmap, Bertrand and team have released a limited preview of the new AJAX functionality coming in ASP.NET 4.0. To see how the new functionality stacks up, I decided to recreate my recent jTemplates example, using only ASP.NET AJAX and its new templating features. Eventually, I settled on using the DataView class, which offers more advanced, repeater-like functionality.read more

From Amazon EC2 and App Engine from Google to Utility Computing, Virtualization, and Walled Gardens - there's no aspect of Cloud Computing that hasn't already been addressed at some level of detail in SYS-CON Media's Cloud Computing Journal (http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com). Here's a round-up of the world of Delivering Scalable IT as a Service, seen through the lens of the many contributors whose thoughts and ideas have already appeared there since it first appeared in June 2008 as the world's first journal devoted exclusively to the delivery of massively scalable IT resources as a service using internet technologies. read more

There are lots of different things you can track on a website. But some are more valuable than others. Which metrics do you find most valuable? Or if your statistics...

Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon are putting out the technology that the enterprise and SaaS providers need to move beyond testing the waters and take advantage of the Cloud today. The latest, and most important from the data storage perspective, is Amazon's Electronic Block Store, or EBS. read more

3PAR announced that Web 2.0 social media company Demand Media has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage to support its rapidly growing social media business. Demand Media uses its network of vertically-oriented Web properties to connect content creators and large audiences with advertisers. To improve infrastructure agility, storage scalability, and capacity utilization over the data lifecycle, the social media company has implemented multiple 3PAR InServ Storage Servers in addition to 3PAR Thin Provisioning and 3PAR Dynamic Optimization software. Demand Media has also chosen to deploy an entire virtual datacenter based on the 3cV blueprint, which combines 3PAR Utility Storage with products from HP and VMware to create a complete utility computing environment.read more

There are lots of different types of websites out there - product sites, marketing brochure sites, educational sites, etc. But the ones that people keep coming back to are content...

Getting good ranking in search engines is a goal for many Web developers. And as such, there have been many strategies suggested. Bloom SEO offers 5 SEO strategies you should...