Recent Open Source

• Web Applications vs Desktop Applications, Internal Corporate Use

  With more web applications implementing desktop-like features, one can look forward to complex business software, that would typically be written for an operating system, being written as an internal web application within an organization. Incidentally, EJChart (http://www.ejschart.com/index.php), developed by Emprise Corporation, struck my attention.
  On the frontpage, you can see a demo of the statistical capabilities [...]

  May 23rd, 2007

• Google Search API vs Yahoo Search API

  After wrestling with Google’s search API, I found myself going back to the Yahoo Search API for many reasons.
  1) Putting a Google Search on your website feels more like a hack than an elegant implementation…
  2) Yahoo!’s search API allows you to do REST calls even on localhost as long as you have a valid Application [...]

  May 7th, 2007