Friday, March 23, 2007

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The time choosing a RIA technology has come?

Things move seriously next RIA technology now:

- Apollo, the framework, has released an alpha version
- Microsoft Expression Blend, the design tool for WPF is available
assessment - the little world offers RubyOnRails SlingShot an attractive alternative to Apollo
- OpenLaszlo 4.0 has been released and can generate interfaces Desomer
Ajax interfaces as interpreted by a Flash player.

On your marks, ready, test!

Friday, March 16, 2007

29 Weeks Pregnant With Pressure

At 10 days of the election deadline



I do not think I am right in telling you that if the trend continues, the election of 26 March 2007 could be historic. Indeed, if we exclude the short experience of 1878-1879, Quebec could appear for the first time a minority government.

Being a great democrat and have already lived in Europe, I am among those who believe that a minority government is an opportunity for the ruling party to show more flexibility. The ruling party can no longer be subjected to the arrogance or the dictatorship of the parliamentary majority. For once, we can see a true collaboration between the incumbent and opposition parties, and ultimately it is the people who will be winning. However, it is also true that opposition parties could band together to demand unreasonable demands, by threatening an election. There is nothing perfect. Moreover, the parliamentary system is not perfect.


But the side of the ideological currents, the next election could finally force the opening of various currents of thought in the National Assembly. In 2003, despite 18.2% of the vote and 4 seats (a fifth was added), the ruling party and opposition official flatly gagged the ADQ. The rules of the National Assembly shall ensure that, to be recognized parliamentary group, have time to speak and adequate operating budgets, you must be at least 20% of the popular vote and 12 deputies. This does nothing to make exceptions, as did Rene Levesque in 1976 recognizing the National Union as a parliamentary group (with 11 seats and 15% of the vote). Being absolutely not PQ, I have to go to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to recognize the value of Democrat had Rene Levesque.


For statistics, most of the time, the National Assembly has acknowledged that two parliamentary groups within its walls (that is to say the ruling party and opposition official). However, in the years 1935-1936, the Liberal Party, the liberal National Action Party and Conservative parties cohabited. Much later, in 1970, there are 4 groups in the presence of parliamentarians in the National Assembly, the Liberal Party of Robert Bourassa, the National Union, the Social Credit Rally and the Parti Quebecois (which took 7 seats).


short, paris are open and very clever who correctly guess the outcome of elections! In closing: Go vote! More than ever, every vote counts!

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3D, web and javascript

3D on the web is a dream that seems to be pushed every day
- VRML has never really taken
- X3D his designated successor, does not really seem to take over
- no alternative No has really emerged

Once again, hackers have javascript turned up the sleeves to achieve a solution Using the new HTML tag "canvas " (unfortunately unknown to our friends at Microsoft) ... and to my surprise, it works! At least occasionally.

few examples, because it is still worth a look:
- a demo of a rendering engine (which does what it can)
- a 3D game (unplayable)
- a demo car forward a route unlikely

Well, until all this progress, Flash and WPF at the moment seem the most reasonable alternative ... unless you have a better idea?

Friday, March 9, 2007

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AJAX, JSON and help BISON bandwidth

In the great times we're living, the web undergoes a quiet revolution and yet crucial to the realm of "user experience": web applications have in fact now more than ever to significantly reduce the bandwidth used . But

beneath a technical aspect of Web 2.0 is anything but a geek problem:
- for the user, the less data to transit means better application responsiveness to its actions.
- the financial, less bandwidth will decrease which can be significant cost structure ... especially in the case of a scalability, rapid application.

How concretely effected this reduction in consumption?
- In the past, it was Ajax who made it possible to save complete page reloads every time the server calls are necessary.
- Today is JSON (if it is used) which reduces significantly the size of the responses returned by the server after an AJAX request.
- Tomorrow it might be something like BISON (which is an experiment) on one hand and client storage massive other that will optimize it a bit greater the flow of information passing between server and client.