Google phone in the labs

It’s confirmed! The mythical Google phone [http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/03/06/more-details-emerge-on-the-mythical-google-phone/] is going to be a reality, as confirmed by a Google exec [http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/15/google-exec-confirms-phone-in-the-labs/].…

Web-based SQL Designer

JavaScript and AJAX are gaining wide-spread audience, and lots of creative applications are emerging from this set of client-side technologies. For instance, checkout this cool SQL Designer [http://ondras.praha12.net/sql/] totally written in DHTML/JavaScript. It has plenty of expert features including schema import & export.…

AJAX Design Patterns

I’ve been working on an ASP.NET project which requires quite a bit of client interactivity, so I’m leaning towards AJAX, and its turning out quite well so far. During the course of research I stumpled upon this neat collection of design patterns and frameworks for AJAX [http:…

Google and Yahoo execs stick with $1 salary

Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will receive a $1 annual salary for 2007. Yahoo! chairman and CEO Terry Semel is also getting paid an annual salary of just $1, as is Apple CEO Steve Jobs. CNN money reports [http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/…

Ten predictions for XML in 2007

The real story for 2007 will be the continued migration to open, accessible data formats. 2007 is already shaping up to be the most exciting year since the community drove off the XML highway into the Web services swamp half a decade ago. XQuery, Atom, Atom Publishing Protocol (APP), XProc,…

Library of Free Data Models

Stumbled upon this great library of database models/schemas [http://www.databaseanswers.org/data%5Fmodels/] (searchable [http://www.barryw.org/dba/pi_data_model_search/index.asp]) for a vast number of business scenarios from auction web site to asset management to search engines.…