Wed 11 Jun 2008
In my previous posting on RIA, Web 2.0 et al, I mentioned about some frameworks and toolkits and runtime etc.
And then I get a comment from the Curl Team. Have a look at the comment here.
I still have not evaluated Curl but to get started with, looks interesting. So, at this point in time - I just mention about it that there exists something called Curl. 
Whether it is suitable or not, or can it scale up to the requirements — I still have to evaluate.
Sun 8 Jun 2008
Last week I delivered a week long training on Adobe Flex 3 (yet again). Apart from the technologies - Adobe Flex and ActionScript - the training aimed to focus on Web 2.0 and RIA.
Web 2.0 and RIA, today, are more or less established philosophies.
However, what I think is that the world is heavily divided on which framework / toolkit to go for. Most of the web revolves around JavaScript & Ajax and/or Flash & ActionScript. Slowly and gradually, Silverlight & WPF/JavaScript seems to be making inroad on the development front - not quite sure how fast.
So, I thought let me try to compile a few frameworks (partial list inspired from the one at Wikipedia):
Barring Adobe Flex, all other frameworks use a common technology - JavaScript and Ajax.
However, some toolkits like Dojo uses / used Flash for offline storage. Some of them are moving to Google Gears for offline store.
And at the moment, I have to rush to the market… will build on this in my subsequent articles.