Coach Wei is the Founder and Chairman of Nexaweb (www.nexaweb.com), developers of the leading software platform for building and deploying Web 2.0 and AJAX applications. Previously, he played a key role at EMC Corporation in the development of a new generation of storage network management software. Wei has his master's degree from MIT, holds several patents, is the author of several technology publications including JDJ, Web 2.0 Journal, and AJAXWorld Magazine, and is an industry advocate for the proliferation of open standards.
A Brief History of AJAX
On April 30, 1993, CERN
announced that the World
Wide Web would be free
for anyone to use and the
Web took off, jumping
from 130 Web sites in
1993, to over 100,000 in
1996, to 11.5 billion
sites in 2005. The main
protocol used on the Web
is the Hypertext Transfer
...
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The Web is one of the
most important
technological as well as
social/cultural
developments in our life.
Its global impact is
rooted in its openness
and its capability to
evolve on a democratic
basis. However, I have
concerns. I'm concerned
about the significant
...
Here is a question that I
have been pondering on
and off for quite a
while: Why do 'cool kids'
choose Ruby or PHP to
build websites instead of
Java? I have to admit
that I do not have an
answer. Why do I even
care? Because I am a Java
developer. Like many Java
dev...
Despite the web 2.0 hype
and growth of firms of
Y-Combinator, the
corporate venture
investment has not
evolved at all.
Corporations in general
are having a hard time
adjusting to the web 2.0
age. When I brought up
this idea to Microsoft
executives a year ago
dur...
The F2F meeting of
OpenAjax Alliance at NYC
on March 21st worked out
really well in my
oppinion. As a result of
the last F2F meeting in
October 2007, we formed a
new task force called
'Runtime Advocacy Task
Force' at OpenAjax. The
goal of Runtime Task
Force is to ...
The 'Same Origin Policy'
is at the core of
browser's security model.
Under the 'Same Origin
Policy', a web resource
can only interact with
another web resource if
and only if both
resources are from the
same origin. However,
'Cross site scripting'
and 'cookie' bot...
As a web 2.0 guy who
blogs on 'Direct from Web
2.0', I did not see this
coming. In fact, my
preferences were Mitt
Romney from the
republican side (maybe
McCain too) and Hilary
Clinton from the democrat
side. I think the three
of them (Mitt Romney,
John McCain and ...
Prototype.js is a popular
AJAX toolkit for web
developers. I have
enjoyed using it despite
the complaints I heard
from people about how
Prototype.js does too
much JavaScript hacking
that breaks other
people's code. One of the
common complaints is that
Prototype.js...
OpenAjax Alliance has
made substantial progress
in the last 12 months
since its inception. The
cornerstone is
OpenAjaxHub 1.0 (OaaHub
1.0). OaaHub 1.0, an open
source project under
Apache V2 license,
focuses on
interoperability - it
enables different Ajax
compo...
This is interesting not
only because it bridges a
gap in Dojo toolkit. Dojo
has been the most
credible offering in the
Ajax marketplace so far
(there are a few other
good ones too, such as
jQuery and EXT, though
they have different
design focus from Dojo).
A lot o...
AjaxWord
(www.ajaxword.com) is an
open source Web-based
word processor. It
closely mimics Microsoft
Word in both
look-and-feel and
functionality. The
application was initially
written between 1997 and
1999 using
JavaScript/DHTML on the
client side with ASP on
...
In this comprehensive
article Wei re-examines
Web 2.0, in contrast to
the common
consumer-centric point of
view, by looking at its
technology stack and
impact on enterprise
computing. Wei
establishes a Web 2.0
technology stack that
forms the foundation of a
para...
