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Surveying open-source AJAX toolkits | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2006-07-31 | By Peter Wayner

Link: Surveying open-source AJAX toolkits | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2006-07-31 | By Peter Wayner.

Packages from Dojo, Zimbra, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, and OpenRico/Prototype showcase the variety of libraries available to AJAX developers

ONJava.com -- Deploying BIRT

Link: ONJava.com -- Deploying BIRT.

The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) project is an open source, Eclipse-based reporting framework that enables the creation and deployment of complex report designs.

Your one stop for Apple Boot Camp, Intel Macs, Dual Booting, Microsoft Windows XP and Mac OS X, Video Gaming on Macs

Link: Your one stop for Apple Boot Camp, Intel Macs, Dual Booting, Microsoft Windows XP and Mac OS X, Video Gaming on Macs.

Scientists OK Gore's Movie for Accuracy

Link: Scientists OK Gore's Movie for Accuracy.

The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.

The former vice president's movie _ replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets _ mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated Press.

"Futurama" Pulls a "Family Guy" - Yahoo! News

Link: "Futurama" Pulls a "Family Guy" - Yahoo! News.

Comedy Central is going back to the Futurama. Three years after the show last aired on prime time, the cable net has signed a deal to resurrect the former Fox animated series for a minimum 13-episode run. Comedy Central will start airing the new shows in 2008.

HURRAH! This is one of my favorite shows. Although I was lukewarm when it was first aired, I've grown to love it as much, or more than, The Simpsons. Yes, Family Guy is also good and very funny and I also love King of the Hill, but Futurama is special to me. The writing was always tight, like the early years of The Simpsons, and the animation, a combination of traditional and computer-generated, was always first-rate. I've been glued to Adult Swim since it's inception, not for the new material, but for the Futurama and Family Guy reruns. I am so happy that I'll get to see some first-run episodes, again.

Kiko - A New Kind of Online Calendar

Link: Kiko - A New Kind of Online Calendar.

Kiko is developed and hosted on an open-source application stack:

    * LigHTTPD on Debian GNU/Linux
    * the PostgreSQL database
    * Ruby on Rails
    * and the Dojo and Prototype Javascript toolkits

StikiPad : About Us

Link: StikiPad : About Us.

StikiPad is written completely in Ruby on Rails and utilizes technologies such as AJAX to increase usability within the StikiPad interface

Safari service lets readers interact on IT books in progress

Link: Safari service lets readers interact on IT books in progress.

One user of the service, Allie Rogers, chief technology officer at software vendor Triple Point Technologyies in Westport, Conn., said Rough Cuts has been a boon to him

Hey.  I made the papers, again.  This time, it's Computerworld.

Finalist has not won the RAD race yet

Link: Finalist has not won the RAD race yet.

Finalist software developers Michiel de Mare and Remco van 't Veer competed in the Developent Tools 2006 (RAD Race) as the Finalist RubyOnRails-team. They raced against Oracle, Java and 4GL specialists and didn't do badly for a pair of Java developers who play with Ruby in their spare time.

Nigel Daley's Blog: Compute Server: how it works

Link: Nigel Daley's Blog: Compute Server: how it works.