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Atlas: Under the Hood

28. February 2009

979CommentsAtlas%3A+Under+the+Hood2009-02-28+21%3A02%3A52Francisco+Tolmasky

At 280 North we’ve been working on a framework called Cappuccino for creating what we like to call desktop class applications. These are not your average web sites, but instead a new breed of web application that aims to replace many of the programs that currently run on your desktop. When we launched 280 Slides, [...]

Web Development is Moving On - Are you?

5. February 2009

793Comments2009-02-05+10%3A52%3A17Christian+Heilmann

It is quite interesting to see how web development turned from a niche for brochure-ware and intranets to one of the biggest software development environments in the market over just a few years. “The web as the platform” is a hollow dream no longer ‐ you can now run and develop a web application without [...]

Pragmatic Reporting for your Web Apps

23. October 2007

118CommentsPragmatic+Reporting+for+your+Web+Apps2007-10-23+14%3A17%3A19Daniel+Hilton

Reporting is perhaps one of the biggest business deliverables for enterprise IT. Being able to say how many widgets were sold in month seven in year XX, sub-divided by customer ABC grouping, is one of the easiest ways to make management happy. But when building a web app, reporting is the last thing on many [...]

Building Scalable Web Apps

6. August 2006

68CommentsBuilding+Scalable+Web+Apps2006-08-06+06%3A01%3A30Cal+Henderson

Before we even get near a terminal, we’re going to want to think about the general architecture of our application and do a fair bit of planning. So put away your PowerBook, find a big whiteboard and some markers, order some pizza, and get your engineers together. In this article, we’ll look at some general software [...]

How to Measure the Success of your Web App

2. August 2006

69Comments2006-08-02+12%3A22%3A15Michael+McDerment

So you are building a web application… good for you! How are you doing? “Lots of people have signed up so we’re doing really well”, that sounds nice in a “you probably have no clue” kind of way. Allow me to explain. Part of the benefit of doing business online is you can track EVERYTHING. Web [...]