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Sunday, October 21, 2007 | 0 Comments

AJAX Options

by Mike Hatfield, Chief Technology Officer

AJAX is still a large buzz in the industry.  For some that are just beginning to use this technology, it can be confusing to know where to start.  There are dozens of choices of technologies that will allow you to create AJAX enabled systems, but which do you choose?  Which is the “right” one?

This post will explore some the options we’ve tried as well as the pros and cons of each.

Our experiences in developing web-based applications have not been limited to developing only ASP.NET applications.  We have run the gamut of development technologies though we have standardized on two technologies in particular in the recent number of years; ASP.NET and PHP.


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Friday, October 19, 2007 | 0 Comments

Introducing Silverlight

by Mike Hatfield, Chief Technology Officer

“Using the Technology You Don’t Know About to Deliver the Systems You Never Knew You Wanted”

There’s been a buzz in the air recently about this new fangled technology from Microsoft <insert groan here>.   The buzz surrounding Microsoft Silverlight has been building over the last number of months for us in the programming community and has recently come to a head with the official release of Silverlight 1.0 only a few weeks ago.


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