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The real heroes of the Web 2.0

Every day in the shade of businessmen and bloggers hits, hackers were brilliant insights and willingness to build the web (2.0) today and tomorrow.

Since they probably never know the fame he deserved, I would now give them a little tribute via a 100% subjective selection of the best of them.

David H. Hanson, definitely on track
This man is more than a clever techie: his vision of web development is so effective that it has revolutionized the profession almost by itself. His work, RubyOnRails , is indeed at odds with many habits: unknown language, a pattern (ActiveRecord) too often considered lax structure (MVC) that rhymed far more rigorous that efficiency ... and now many try to copy it!

Alex Russell, the master of the dojo
Alex Russell is the project manager dojo, this innovative javascript library which not only includes an impressive number of features but also has an architecture very well thought out.
Alex Russell is also one of those who lean most on the developing COMET, a technology that certainly has the future but is still AJAX more nightmarish to set up.

Brad Neuberg, offline, but the blow
I've already talked a lot, but the work of Brad on the offline mode and its coup for use Flash cookies in Javascript is really impressive.

Sam Stephenson, chief prototyper
Sam Stephenson is neither more nor less than the creator Prototype, the javascript library reference to the Ajax development. It is also part of the team working on the core RubyOnRails.

Thomas Fuchs: scriptaculeux!
Thomas Fuchs had the good idea to rely prototype scriptaculous to build his very practical effects JavaScript library ... it is also involved in developing RubyOnRails should therefore probably no coincidence. Also note, its good development practices JavaScript that should be better known.

Joe Hewitt, our savior daily
Joe Hewitt has had the excellent idea of developing the most faithful friend of the developer through javascript Firebug : let it be!

Note that 2 of these hackers 2.0 (David and Sam) are part of the famous team 37signals (Basecamp, Getting Real) and 2 others (Alex and Brad) are employed Sitepen ... 2 small companies they would move our old web faster than some behemoths?

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Firebug: when the exceptional is essential Dojo Offline Toolkit

Firebug 1.0 was released earlier this year and if you expand a little, I urge you to update / try / find out if this is not done yet. The developer's best friend Ajax is now what it takes to help you in everyday life:
- inspect and analyze the HTML code
item by item - see styles to your pages easily
- see all HTTP requests in detail
- debug JavaScript
better than ever - to examine the DOM objects simply

And many small practical things (console messages, debugging in IE!) That I are now allowed to discover a tool that is both reliable and indispensable ... that makes us eager to discover the next version!

Dojo Offline Toolkit

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How does (will) walk (r)? Value added of

intended to be, as its name suggests, a toolbox makes it easy to develop offline capabilities for web applications yesterday and tomorrow. For this, several things are needed:
- a library that allows storing information in offline mode: it already exists, it's called dojo.storage .
- a lightweight web proxy on the client to manage the offline mode is transparent to the user (I will return).
- a API allows developers to easily use the features of the toolkit

Well, let us now on the client machine will use an application running with the Toolkit:
- it will look if you have the web proxy dojo offline
- if you do not have it, she offers to install (Easy Installation: NSIS system for Windows, Linux XPI)
immediately - you have the proxy or not, you then use the online application
- once offline and if you have the proxy, it consults the file ProxyAutoConfiguration (CAP) in your browser and directs you to your local version of the application seamlessly
- you use the offline application is then entirely based on JavaScript, which allows you to store information in your browser through dojo.storage
- once you go online, the proxy reconnects you to the remote server and synchronize offline / online may occur

All work which is being is therefore to create the proxy (from polipo an existing opensource project) and build the API ... racing results in 3 months!

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blogger: relevance, scarcity, reformulation and right quotation

I love to read blogs. The term "wisdom of crowds " has real meaning for me when I see every day, the wealth of information that is now available on the web. Unfortunately, like any generation, blogs are a waste important ... and whatever you read at once is probably not escape the rule!

Thus, the annoyance that I gained from reading some posts useless as far as the desire to always bring something to my readers regularly leads me to ask myself the question: what is the value of an article? Ie beyond the perennial "how to lead the reader to my article?" (SEO), I would rather ask "how my article may be useful to the reader? .

Because I say I'm tired of "articles" which are merely catalogs without logic (like "87 Web 2.0 applications), lists of links without explanation (" hello, here are 3 interesting links !), or 80% of articles pumped from other sources. Yes, I know it's good practice take whole paragraphs from his "friends" bloggers: it makes the content easier for spam, it increases the frequency of posts ... but it is neither clever nor moral, nor really useful to the community.

Let there be no mistake: the others include the backlink is a great habit of the blogosphere (it is used to find new sources for readers is a way to reward the author by new visitors and it improves the relevance of search engines), quasi-plagiarism is another.

The slightest thing to do to discuss the content created by others is to follow some rules of common sense and respect:
- the content in a few sentences you will, you will put into perspective
- no more than 10% of an item you do citeras
- always your sources you backlinks

It may seem obvious, but I recently saw blooming here and there blogs that merely catalogs and links to various pumping (and I'm not talking about "blogs-satellites" used purely for SEO): value added = 0, pollution of the blogosphere = maximum. That is said, and miraculously, my heartburn disappeared.

I therefore value added blogger. Most blogs posts in this world is based on a news, analysis, or a discovery made by others. The art of blogger is to add additional value to the content which it refers and it's why several methods:
- translate the content into another language
- criticize content
- establish correlations with other content by putting them in perspective
- reformulate the content to make it intelligible to other readers
- analyze the content to emphasize particular aspects or no evident
- summarize content (without betraying ... delicate exercise!)
- ... (List to be completed with your help)

I am among those who think the blog is not a free space for the blogger , and that he must be aware of a number of Implied duties as a de facto member of the blogosphere. But the quality of the latter depends on all of us.