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Richard Monson-Haefel
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Richard Monson-Haefel, an award-winning author and technical analyst, is currently VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc.
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AJAX RIA News - Which
Technologies Will Carry
the Rich Internet Torch? By Richard Monson-Haefel  If Gartner's assessment
of AJAX's position on the
Hype Cycle is correct,
then the days when AJAX
is the only game in town
are over. Enter the age
of what Anne Thomas Manes
of the Burton Group calls
'Fit Clients' - a hybrid
of Thick Clients (a.k.a.
Fat Clients) and T... Jun. 17, 2008 07:30 AM Reads: 15,428 Replies: 1 | AJAX RIA World - The Tale
of Two Webs By Richard Monson-Haefel  When talking about the
'web' what are we
referring to? For most
people it's what can be
experienced through their
web browser including
HTML, audio and video
streaming, Flash-based
animation, or rich
Internet Application
(RIA) interfaces. The key
to this perspecti... May. 27, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 7,981 | The Next Battle for the
Desktop By Richard Monson-Haefel  The computer desktop
today is what the
television was to people
in the 1980s. It's the
single most important
channel for consumer
entertainment and
information. The computer
desktop - as was the case
with newspapers before
there was radio and radio
before there wa... Apr. 27, 2008 10:30 AM Reads: 10,556 Replies: 3 | Engelbart's Usability
Dilemma: Efficiency vs
Ease-of-Use By Richard Monson-Haefel  The mouse was the
original idea of Doug
Engelbart who was the
head of the Augmentation
Research Center (ARC) at
Stanford Research
Institute. Engelbart's
philosophy is best
embodied, in my opinion,
in the design of another
device that he invented,
the five-finger k... Apr. 10, 2008 09:15 AM Reads: 18,437 Replies: 6 | The "Uncanny Valley"
Theory Doesn't Apply to
Desktop UI By Richard Monson-Haefel  If you design an
application that runs on
Windows but doesn't look
exactly like Windows, so
the old argument goes,
the effect will be
unsettling for users. But
sticking to the native
look and feel (L&F)
should not be the
end-goal of designers. Apr. 2, 2008 02:45 PM Reads: 10,536 | Enterprise Widgets: The
Story So Far By Richard Monson-Haefel  Desktop widgets have been
around for a very long
time. The first set of
desktop widgets were
introduced by Apple back
in 1983 with their
release of Apple Desktop
Accessories. Obviously
Apple was way ahead of
the curve, but these
early widgets were not
Internet ena... Mar. 30, 2008 02:45 AM Reads: 13,288 Replies: 4 | The Grand Convergence:
Web + RIA + Widgets +
Client/Server By Richard Monson-Haefel For the past ten years
application developers
have been stuck with only
two desktop client
choices. Traditionally,
they can choose either a
very thin Web-client
technology implemented in
HTML and CSS, or a very
heavyweight thick client
experience implemented
using... Mar. 13, 2008 06:30 AM Reads: 16,107 Replies: 1 | Why Microsoft Loves
Google Android, Take 2 By Richard Monson-Haefel Android is not bad like
world hunger is bad, it's
just not good for
existing Java standards.
My main thesis is this:
If Android succeeds as it
is currently defined then
the entire Java platform,
including Java SE, is in
trouble. Android's
success sends a clear
mes... Dec. 25, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 16,646 | Why Microsoft Loves
Google's Android By Richard Monson-Haefel You won't hear Microsoft
say this out loud, but
secretly they are
celebrating Google's
contribution of the
Android mobile phone
platform to the Open
Handset Alliance. At
least they ought to be.
Android is perhaps the
best thing to happen to
Microsoft since they wo... Nov. 29, 2007 04:00 PM Reads: 25,952 Replies: 4 | Guaranteed Messaging With
JMS By Dave Chappell; Richard Monson-Haefel The notion of guaranteed
delivery of Java Message
Service messages has been
lightly touched on in
other recently published
articles on JMS. But what
really makes a JMS
message 'guaranteed'?
Should you just take it
on faith, or would you
like to know what's
behind it? Apr. 1, 2001 12:00 AM Reads: 21,863 Replies: 1 | Design Patterns By Richard Monson-Haefel Design Patterns are
blueprints that describe
how to design class
structures and object
interactions to solve
commonly encountered
problems. A Design
Pattern can be as simple
as the practice of using
an interface to achieve
polymorphism and as
complicated as design... Jun. 1, 1997 12:00 AM Reads: 13,760 |
PBDJ LATEST STORIES . . . Adobe's Kevin Lynch and
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie
to Keynote AJAX World RIA
Conference & Expo By RIA News Desk  Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be | PowerBuilder and
EAServer: Uniting the
.NET and J2EE Communities By Jim O'Neil  In PowerBuilder 11.2,
.NET meets J2EE head-on
with the capability to
deploy .NET Windows Forms
and Web Forms
applications (as well as
assemblies and Web
Services) that access
Enterprise JavaBeans
(EJBs) in Sybase's own
EAServer. As you'll see
over the course of this
article, integratin | HarPB Tool Review By Al Soucy  HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harvest. It
handles the special
requirements of checking
objects out to
PowerBuilder Libraries
(PBLs) and checking
objects in from PBLs.
These operations are
non-standard to most
source cont | PowerBuilder Editorial:
The State of the State By Bruce Armstrong  Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder.
Phase 1 was the
implementation of web
services in PB9 and Phase
2 was the release of
DataWindow.NET, which was
packaged with PB 10.
Phases 3 and 4 were the
more significant phases.
In P | PowerBuilder History -
When Did Sybase Develop
PB and How Did It Evolve? By Chris Pollach  I have been asked many
times by various clients,
students, and the IT
curious about
PowerBuilder: When did
Sybase develop the
product and how did it
evolve? I keep telling
this story and answering
e-mails on the subject. I
am now to the point where
I have decided that I
should have PBD | PowerBuilder 11's .NET
Interoperability By John Strano  PowerBuilder 11 deploys
entire applications as
.NET Windows Form or Web
Form applications and
deploys individual
components as .NET
Assemblies and as .NET
Web Services. Version 11
consumes resources of the
default .NET framework as
well as resources of
custom developer-defined
.NET res |
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SYS-CON FEATURED WHITEPAPERS BREAKING POWERBUILDER / SYBASE NEWS  | Adobe's Kevin Lynch and
Microsoft's Scott Guthrie
to Keynote AJAX World RIA
Conference & Expo Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe | PowerBuilder and
EAServer: Uniting the
.NET and J2EE Communities In PowerBuilder 11.2,
.NET meets J2EE head-on
with the capability to
deploy .NET Windows Forms
and W | HarPB Tool Review HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harv | PowerBuilder Editorial:
The State of the State Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder. | PowerBuilder History -
When Did Sybase Develop
PB and How Did It Evolve? I have been asked many
times by various clients,
students, and the IT
curious about
PowerBuilder: Wh | PowerBuilder 11's .NET
Interoperability PowerBuilder 11 deploys
entire applications as
.NET Windows Form or Web
Form applications and
deploy | Sanity, Strategy,
Sustainability: The New
World of Verification
Platforms The lines between
embedded and enterprise
computing are blurring.
As embedded devices
become more an | Publishing .NET Web
Services Using SQL
Anywhere 10.0.1 In this article we're
going to take a database
and create our own mini
version of an
'Amazon-like' i | PowerBuilder Editorial -
"There You Go Again" If that doesn't ring a
bell, it's from the
Reagan / Carter debates
in the 1980 election
cycle. Carte | Integrated Support for
XML Data Management XML is increasingly being
used as the language of
data exchange. An XML
document based on a DTD
or a | SYS-CON's Virtualization
Conference & Expo: Themes
& Topics From Application
Virtualization to Xen, a
round-up of the
virtualization themes &
topics being discu | How Does NY State Manage
Its PowerBuilder
Applications? Most applications need
upgrades and corrections.
If you maintain in-house
development you want to
be | PowerBuilder and UPS
Shipping Does your shipping
department have these
problems? Extra charges
due to incorrect
addresses? Difficu | Using the Eclipse Data
Tools Platform with
PowerBuilder and SQL
Anywhere The Eclipse Data Tools
Platform (DTP) is now a
top-level project at
eclipse.org. Originally
proposed | 2008 Worldwide
PowerBuilder Survey Novalys is holding its
8th annual PowerBuilder
Worldwide Survey. This
survey is a great
feedback mec | View "Virtualization
Power Panel" Live on
SYS-CON.TV Red Hat CTO Brian
Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon
Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete
Manca, Allen Stewart,
Group Man | Sybase PowerBuilder
Delivers AJAX and .NET
Enhancements Sybase announced that
AJAX development
capabilities and further
Microsoft .NET
enhancements have bee | The PB Future: More on
Graphs in PowerBuilder
11.5 Last week I posted a
screen shot of the new 3D
Rendering capabilities
being added to some of
the 3D | BluePhoenix Expands
Modernization
Collaboration with
Microsoft BluePhoenix announced
that it has expanded its
collaboration with
Microsoft on legacy
modernization | PowerBuilder 11.2
Released: Sybase's
Flagship IDE Sybase has released the
production version of its
flagship .NET development
tool - PowerBuilder vers |
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I began my career at RCA
Aerospace and Defense in
1983 and worked at MITRE
Corp., BAE Systems, and
the State of NH. I worked
in the defense field
performing software