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Monthly Archives: April 2006

Google Calendar

By Stephen Downey | Published: April 20, 2006
I have been looking at yet another great tool from Google.   In true Web 2.0 style Google calendar allows people to share calendar events with on the web.  They provide an API so I am going to try to integrate my public events with my web site. On a different note, I was at another [...]
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Web 2.0 – Desktop2.0?

By Stephen Downey | Published: April 7, 2006
I just received a link in my del.icio.us inbox to this "interesting" presentation.  The subject matter is very interesting in itself but the presentation style is not your run of the mill powerpoint. The presentation discusses a very interesting point. All web2.0 developers are looking for the following:Fast RevenuesRich UIHackable API'sCommunities On the other end of [...]
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Reflection Tip – Dynamically calling methods

By Stephen Downey | Published: April 4, 2006
There are often times when you need to call a method but you do not know the name of the method until runtime.  I came across this issue during my Thesis.    Our problem was as follows: How do we dynamically map between an object type and a method in the sub class of PublishableServer that [...]
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Web 1.0 V’s 2.0

By Stephen Downey | Published: April 4, 2006
I came across this interesting comparison of web 1.0 to 2.0 by Matthew Thomas. I think it is a very simple but true example.  Web2.0 is about getting the product to Market as soon as possible and constantly improving. As Walter Higgins said, just do it anyway.    
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