OpenID ??

today i read this article which explains what openid is ??

Lately OpenID has been hitting the front page of digg, del.icio.us, and many other large websites.

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OpenID - What is it, and why everyone is talking about it
you can also go through..
Authenticated Distributed Search (OpenSearch, OpenID)
Add OpenSearch to your site in five minutes

Additional link(offtopic and old article but i came across this well written article and couldn’t resist posting it.. ):
What Every Webmaster and Web Developer MUST Know About Ruby on Rails and AJAX It’s not a tutorial, it’s not a “how-to” but he explains very well just what the heck all this.

February 25, 2007 | Filed Under programming, web, webdev | Leave a Comment 

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

I found this awesome video through digg . It explains how web has evolved making it more interactive, flexible and useful through videos, photos, map, search and much more…
Web is becoming more powerful with technologies like Ajax, XML etc
It was created by Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.




Youtube Link

February 4, 2007 | Filed Under web, web2.0, webdev | Leave a Comment 

An Introduction to AJAX

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is the latest boom in the Web development world. AJAX helps developers narrow the gap between desktop and web applications — Google Earth, Flicker and MS Outlook Express Web Version are some of the applications powered by AJAX.

Asynchronous means that you can make a request to a server and perform other actions while the server is processing your request — and on the arrival of the response required actions can be performed — as opposed to conventional web applications, in which the user has to sit back and stare at the blank screen while the server is processing the request.

AJAX Architecture :
Figure 2

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Source : Topcoder

July 19, 2006 | Filed Under programming, tutorial, web2.0, webdev | Leave a Comment