Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

Moon and floodlights at AT&T Park.

San Francisco
May 2006

Lavender (with bee) at the David Bruce Winery

Santa Cruz Mountains
May 2006

Vines at a Santa Cruz Mountains vinery.

Santa Cruz Mountains
May 2006

While I'm enjoying the varied conversations on everything from the economics of the China Japan relationship to the future of supercomputing here in San Diego at FiRe, you can read a snippet of my visit to The AJAX Experience in San Francisco at the Developer Register.

Sometimes it seems that you’ve waited ages for an AJAX framework to come along, and then suddenly there’s a whole queue of them lined up, ready for testing. The latest to join the line up is Macromedia - sorry, Adobe now - with its Spry AJAX framework, which you can download here.

Announced and demonstrated last week at The AJAX Experience conference in San Francisco, Spry builds on work done with Flash and Flex, and focuses on working with XML data, as well as providing display widgets and effects. With tools to handle master-detail relationships Spry is an effective way of building, and “AJAXifying”, the type of user interface that’s become familiar to anyone building Flash applications. It’s also a lot easier to code than traditional AJAX approaches…

Read on here.

Normal service will be resumed shortly. However this conference is just far too interesting to spend much time blogging!