Archive for May, 2008

Introduction to Web Content Management Systems

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Content Management System software is available commercially from several vendors, as well as from many free or open source software (FOSS) communities.

Open source has the additional benefit of an collaborative community of programmers working on improvements and bug fixes, often able to respond faster than their commercial rivals. Of course, cost is the advantage many IT managers are interested in when considering open source alternatives, as most of these packages are available free or for a small donation of time or money.

In either case, using a CMS solution, whether commerical or FOSS, saves money in development time and also provides stronger security through the technical support of the software vendor or the collaborative programming community.

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Microsoft Silverlight Vs. Adobe Flash : 10 Differences

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

SL does not require video codec to run industry standard videos like .WMV
But Flash requires video codec to run .WMV videos. Flash has also limitation to play other video file.

SL supports Scalable full screen video.
Flash does not support Scalable full screen video.

SL supports the WPF animation model, which is time based instead of frame based.
The animation model is frame based in Flash.

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Silverlight

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Silverlight is a browser plug-in that that extends the web development experience far beyond the limitations of plain HTML and JavaScript. Being a Microsoft product, you might expect it to work best (or only) on Windows and Internet Explorer. So you may be pleasantly surprised to know that it works equally well on Windows and on the Mac, and it also works equally well on the Firefox and Safari web browsers. Since Silverlight is a client side technology, it doesn’t matter what backend server software or platform you’re running – even Apache/Linux will do just fine.

Features of Silverlight:

  • Incorporates Windows Presentation Foundation Core
  • Contains CLR (Common Language Runtime) and most important base classes from the .NET Framework
  • Supports programming in C#, VB, JScript, Ruby, Python
  • Embeds Communication Framework including WCF (Windows Communication Framework)
    Comes with Data Framework including LINQ

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Web 2.0

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

The Internet is undergoing an extreme makeover. In the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century, the World Wide Web was primarily a place for viewers to retrieve information. The information flowed in a one-way direction. Websites were mostly built by “techie” folk who knew complex HTML coding and FTP site management. If you’re scratching your head, you’re not alone.

Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform

Web as Platform, Harnessing Collective Intelligence, Data as the Intel Inside, End of the Software Release Cycle, Lightweight Programming Models, Software Above the Level of a Single Device, and Rich User Experiences.

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