Technology
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
AIIM (www.aiim.org) non-profit organization for enterprise content management (ECM) has released a report on how “Collaboration and Enterprise 2.0” is gaining importance among business.
According to this AIIM report, there has been a dramatic increase in the understanding of how Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, forums, and social networks ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Optimization
As the Razorfish Guide to SXSW became more fully developed, we started to look at key areas where we could make performance gains and either actually speed up the site or simply make the site appear to load more quickly. (Check out part 1 of our story ...
Tags: asp.net mvc, austin, caching, compression, css animation, css compression, gzip, iphone, javascript compression, Mobile, optimization, razorfish.web, sprites, sxsw
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Design and Development
Up against a tight deadline, our small team was working fast and furious to create the Razorfish mobile guide to Austin in time for the SXSW Interactive conference. With our technologies determined and all eyes on the iPhone, we set out to bring the ...
Tags: AJAX, asp.net mvc, austin, caching, history, html 5, iphone, iphone app, json, local storage, Mobile, navigation, optimization, sxsw, user experience
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Once a year, the internet comes to visit Austin, Texas at the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) conference, and, for 2009, the Razorfish Austin office was determined to leave an impression. We ended up making close to 3,000 impressions.
Industry leaders and the web avante-garde converge on Austin for one weekend ...
Tags: .NET, asp.net mvc, austin, iphone, iphone app, javascript frameworks, Mobile, optimization, razorfish.web, safari, sxsw, web applications
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
One of my favorite topics in agile and iterative development is pair programming.The question is can we make it happen more and do we want to try it more? I've typically seen it on the smaller and more isolated projects. It's a fascinating concept and the research, while minimal that ...
Tags: Agile, Education, pair programming, research, University of North Carolina
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
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Twitter just announced they are supporting OAuth. Why is this cool? Well, now you can share applications with Twitter without asking the user to log into twitter. Very cool indeed.
Tags: Application programming interface, OAuth, OpenID, Twitter
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
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It looks like Ruby version 1.9.1 supports native threads and fibers. Fibers are a 'lightweight' approach when you don't need full threads. It sounds like fibers are not preemptive, so they have to yield to other fibers as opposed to threads that can run in ...
Tags: Java, language, Programming, Programming language, Ruby, Tools
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
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There's a new service out there, Snipt, for Twitter that enables folks to post code quickly. Basically, go to Snipt, cut and paste your code into the box and you get a small URL that people can go back to. Snipt takes your code and ...
Tags: Online Communities, Social network, TweetDeck, Twitter, Web search engine
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
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Interwoven has been purchased by Autonomy. Interwoven is definitely one of the most common CMS platforms we see at our enterprise 500 clients, interestingly much more than autonomy. Overall, this seems like a great opportunity for the two to grow market share. From a technology architecture perspective, there ...
Tags: Autonomy, Content Management, Interwoven, Site Management, Technology
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
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So, during the historic exciting inaugaration yesterday, many of the big folks seemed to 'melt' down as I like to put it. Poor quality video, audio not synced, etc. I am sure there were lots of folks rebooting servers to try and keep up, but it just didn't ...
Tags: Akamai, Akamai Technologies, Barack Obama, Broadcasting, Business, Joost, Peer-to-peer, Streaming media
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