I've registered and had some hand-on experiences with Amazon Web Services (S3 and EC2) since they were launched. I like the idea behind them and theoretically they provide very flexible hosting environment where you can deploy and publish your apps on fly. Yet, in practice, it's not that simple: you must be an expert to create a system of high ...

Marcel Overdijk has released Ext plugin for Grails. This plugin provides integration with the Ext JavaScript Library. When installing the plugin, it downloads and installs automatically the latest Ext 2.0.2 distribution in your application, and registers itself to be used with the adaptive AJAX tags. It also contains two helper tags to easily include additional Ext JavaScript and CSS files as ...

Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 is now available for download. This release includes "750 changes from the previous beta, improving stability and web compatibility, providing platform and user interface enhancements, and resulting in the fastest Firefox ever. Many of these improvements were based on community feedback from the previous beta" (quoted from the release note). Adrian had a little hands-on time with ...

A few months ago, I told one of my friends, Bill Aue, that I was really tired with going tens of websites to read tech news everyday while my RSS reader had been overloaded with hundreds of feeds. Sometimes it's very hard to find what important news is. Idea and Implementation Then, Bill had an idea of creating a weblog which pulls ...

In a recent post reviewing service from WebNode -- one of players in rather a crowded market of online site builder -- I mentioned SynthaSite as a serious competitor in the field. A few weeks ago, Monique sent me a shout about SynthaSite's upcoming release with a lot of improvements in site builder and new widgets like Form, Map and ...

Here are a few things I discovered while playing with Google search. Did you know already? Search in Search Searching "Microsoft", I got the result as image below. Now you can search within search result. It seems only news portals have this functionality as I got similar embedded search button when trying with "New York Times" and "Washington Post" keywords but just got ...

A few weeks ago, I posted a comparison of Dojo ShrinkSafe, YUI Compressor and Jasob Obfuscator. Then, I received comment from Brian introducing an interesting project: Include; some day later it was covered by Ajaxian with a few good comments that are worth a read. So, I decided to integrate into one of my projects to have hand-on experience with ...

Every journey begins with the first step and after the first two months I can say I've passed the first step of a very long trip. So, I want to show a summary of my blog stats as a milestone. Visitors and Site Ranking In the passed 2 month, "Just Talk About Web" (JTAW) blog has welcome about 19,000 visitors (i.e. 367 ...

Yesterday, I subscribed to Website Magazine - a magazine which covers a variety of categories of web business from website management, online advertisement, SEO to web design and development. This magazine is an excellent source for people who are interested in doing business on the net of any kind. I'm very fond of the digital edition of the magazine powered by ...