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[AJAX Magazine] Gizmox Dares Hackers to Break Into Visual WebGui

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:57:47 +0200

Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui open source platform, announced a contest, sponsored by the Company, which will pay $10,000 to anyone who can hack into its Visual WebGui Platform. The Contest will take the shape of an investigation into the identity of a secret agent. The goal of the contest is to uncover the true identity of their secret agent, code named OWL. The Contest will feature a flash movie presented within the Visual WebGui application that will contain the data necessary to uncovering the identity of the OWL. Participants will be required to provide a reproducible pathway into the Visual WebGui Pipeline (without having to penetrate any non Visual WebGui Peripherals) in order to claim the prize. The contest will begin on November 3rd and end December 31st, Participants must register to receive login information and contest details.

This is the location of the Security Challenge: http://www.visualwebgui.com/live/Security_Challenge

"We believe that our proprietary "Empty Client" portal is the most secure environment on the market and we are willing to put our money where our mouth is" Said Navot Peled, CEO of Gizmox. "We don't make statements that our program is "unhackable" lightly, we have given this challenge to many people in the field and no one has been able to penetrate it, and we are sure that no one can!"

Gizmox is the Company that released Visual WebGui to the public in early 2008, is poised to create a new standard in cloud computing. Since its release there have been over 250,000 downloads of its DHTML version. Visual WebGui (VWG) is a new 'Web like Desktop' platform that offers open source rapid application development (RAD) framework for Line of Business AJAX & Silverlight applications atop the platform. VWG cuts down development time (proven up to 90%), without compromising on extensibility, scalability, performance, security or complexity.

[AJAX Magazine] Amazon Holiday Toylist powered by jQuery

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:22:42 +0200

Amazon have just launched a new amazing shopping experience "Holiday Toylist" letting customers watch hundreds of toys, video games, sporting goods, electronic gadgets, and DVDs in action. You can see video of different products and navigate by age or price to find out the perfect gift. Navigation is too much fun using mouse or keyboard, you can zoom in to see product video, and zoom out to list available offers.

Interesting to have in the same time shop and play, especially when the shopping is about toys. The new service is powered by jQuery, pretty neat.

[AJAX Magazine] e-doc offers a simple yet powerful document management solution with VWG

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:17:08 +0200

"Choosing Visual WebGui reduced largely the time of development and gave us an easy way to create an interface similar to windows. Our developers almost forgot they were developing a web application."

Overview

e-grou's provides software solutions to aid organizations in optimizing day to day tasks. Its core business is software development and distribution, especially in the document management area. e-doc was developed in order to provide enterprises with an efficient document management software. The specifications and development of this software solution are the result of over than 10 years of experience in consulting to implement third party solutions in our customers.

[Hosting Magazine] Landing Holdings, Inc Acquires Hosting Zoom

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:42:39 +0000

Synergies will further enhance customer service levels, increase product lines, maximize resources and provide new service offerings

HOUSTON, TX. October 21, 2008 - Landis Holdings Inc., a leading provider of end-to-end web hosting solutions for over a decade, today announced the acquisition of Hosting Zoom, Inc. The deal also includes Reseller Zoom and modVPS, divisions of Hosting Zoom. Customers of Hosting Zoom will see immediate benefits with no impact on their hosting plans.

Existing customers of Hosting Zoom can now look forward to accessing compelling technologies from Landis Holding companies such as JaguarPC. Hosting Zoom, a privately held company also based in Houston, TX and best known for its clustered failover technology, believes the outcome immediately gives its customers additional benefits. One example is JaguarPCs enterprise license for R1Soft Continuous Data Protection (CDP) which offers one of the highest levels of data protection in the industry for its hosting customers.

"We are proud to welcome the users of Hosting Zoom, Reseller Zoom and modVPS to the family," says Greg Landis, president of Landing Holdings. "There will be zero impact to how existing customers conduct their business. We want to simply turn our focus inwards and look to invest in increasing support and development personnel imeediately. JaguarPC and Hostingzoom are already profitable so the goals are simple moving forward, leave what works alone and bring extra equipment online now in anticipation of the greater demand."

[CMS Magazine] CMS EXPO, 4th-5th December in Denver

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:41:31 +0000

While much of the US economy is leaning on the "pause button," the technology sector's Content Management arena - particularly in the open source realm - continues in "fast-forward" mode. Open Source solutions are experiencing unprecedented growth, as corporations and non-profits tighten their belts and turn to quality solutions previously unavailable.

Content management solutions such as Joomla, Drupal, Magnolia and LifeRay are experiencing rapid growth, as they ramp up to meet the business community's desire for easy-to-use website development software that empowers teams to collaboratively create and update content. They can do it from the office, home, or even on the road - so long as they have access to the internet.

To meet the groundswell demand for information, training and a sense of community in the open source CMS realm, the US-based CMS Association announced its second international Exposition, to be held in Denver, Colorado. Dubbed the "Winter 2008 CMSA Expo," the event will take place on Thursday, December 4th and Friday, December 5th.

[PHP Community Magazine] PHP eFax v1.1 Released

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:50:15 +0000

ORANGEVALE, Calif.- October 16, 2008 - In 2007, Made to Order Software created a software package to support the eFax protocol using the PHP language. Early in 2008, we offered the PHP eFax package for developers to send faxes from your web server to anywhere in the world.

Now we offer PHP eFax version 1.1 that not only sends faxes, but also accepts inbound faxes. With a single call to the PHP eFax object, you will know everything you need to know about your incoming faxes, including whether they worked and how many pages were received.

eFax® is a j2 Global Communication company offering a reliable system to send and receive worldwide faxes cheaply. Because of its high reliability, it is used by major bank and insurance companies. Their system works with the Internet and is directly accessible to your web server, whether it is local to you or far away from your company offices.

[AJAX Magazine] DHTMLX Ajax Components Suite Updated - Version 2.0 Brings Simplicity to Web Interface Creation

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:28:50 +0200

St. Petersburg, Russia, October 13, 2008 - DHTMLX (dhtmlx.com) is pleased to announce the update of its dhtmlxSuite, a complete suite of Ajax-enabled components for building rich web interfaces. Version 2.0 brings a new approach to building application interface simply by arranging its modules via newly introduced dhtmlxLayout control. It not only allows developers to effortlessly construct interface structure, but also provides the possibility to easily compose DHTMLX components into a single layout.

The current release also includes important bug fixes and performance improvements together with unified skins and better mutual integration of the components. DHTMLX v2.0 introduces some new components such as:

dhtmlxLayout

A simple and affordable way of arranging elements of interface structure visually on page is now available through a new DHTMLX component - dhtmlxLayout. It provides a good deal of ready-made Layout patterns that can be applied to sophisticated web applications. The possibility to integrate other UI components from DHTMLX line into dhtmlxLayout panels easily is one more significant feature of this innovation.

dhtmlxAccordion

A new Accordion component is able to display several parts of content using multiple panes. The content displayed in each pane may vary from text and graphics to other dhtmlx components. All the dhtmlx components can be attached to the Accordion panel with a single script command.

[Enterprise PHP] Interspire Knowledge Manager 5.0 Released

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:31:36 +0000

Interspire have just announced the availabilty of their Knowledge Manager solution version 5.0, previously known as ActiveKB (reviewed here). Mitchell Harper, Interspire Product Manager, wrote in product announcement :

This new version marks a significant step in our product strategy, turning the product from a simple web-based, self-service FAQ system into a fully-featured, enterprise-grade knowledge management tool which can be used to reduce customer support, share company-wide knowledge and reduce staff training costs.

New features in version 5.0 include:

Microsoft SQL Server & LDAP support - Easily integrate Interspire Knowledge Manager with your existing Windows-based Active Directory network and databases.
Complete workflow support - Setup content publishing rules and processes which allow knowledge workers and their managers to efficiently publish and approve knowledge items.
Integrated news posting and syndication - Post news items, information and upcoming event details directly to the front page of your knowledge base.
Index and search inside attachments (Word, PowerPoint - XP/2003/3007, PDF, etc) - Attachments can be uploaded and are automatically indexed and can be searched through your knowledge base.
Staff contribution reports - Assign contribution quotas to knowledge works and view reports outlining their contribution in the last day, week, month or custom date range.
and many more features

You can check also our support section powered by version 4.5 of Interspire Knowledge Manager under http://support.phpmagazine.net/. Product tour and demo of Interspire Knowledge Manager 5.0 are also available.

[AJAX Magazine] Qooxdoo 0.8 Released - Open Source Ajax Framework

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:01:42 +0200

Qooxdoo have just released version 0.8, one of the most interesting open-source, enterprise-level AJAX/RIA frameworks. Leveraging object-oriented JavaScript allows developers to build impressive cross-browser applications. No HTML, CSS nor DOM knowledge is needed.

It includes a platform-independent development tool chain, a state-of-the-art GUI toolkit and an advanced client-server communication layer. It is open source under an LGPL/EPL dual license.

While at first qooxdoo 0.8 looks like a minor jump in version number over the previous 0.7.3, the actual changes are huge. In particular the UI capabilities as well as the developer tool chain were improved substantially.

[PHP Community Magazine] ZZEE PHPExe 2.0 released

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:09:28 +0000

Paul SlavicPaul Slavic wrote to told us about the availablity of version 2 of ZZEE PHPExe, a step towards better compatibility with lots of legacy code, including various frameworks (such as Zend framework) and applications. Many significant changes are made, making it much easier to compile legacy PHP code and use standard PHP tricks.

ZZEE PHPExe compiles PHP, HTML, Javascript and other web files into Windows GUI programs. More information and downloads available here: http://www.zzee.com/phpexe/.

ZZEE PHPExe Features :

Includes a compact webserver, a built-in webbrowser and embedded PHP
Compiled applications don't conflict with any webservers (neither Apache nor IIS), other PHP installations, proxies and firewalls
Compiled applications don't occupy any TCP ports
More than one copy of a compiled application can run at a time
The program uses ISAPI (not slow CGI) interface for optimal performance
ZZEE PHPExe v 2.0.0 ships with PHP v 5.2.5
The program includes lots of PHP extensions
You can use your own PHP extensions
Built-in webbrowser is based on Internet Explorer and thus compatible with the most popular webbrowser
Internal webbrowser runs with high permissions, providing the possibilities that are often disabled in regular webbrowsers for security reasons
Many debugging options are available

Read also on Enterprise PHP Magazine :
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[AJAX Magazine] Interspire Shopping Cart 3.5 Streamlines Buying Process and Increases Conversion Rates for eTailers

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:18:28 +0200

Improve Online Sales by Integrating Single Page Checkout, Custom Shipping Zones and Other Store Management Features Such as Support for iPhone Order Processing

SYDNEY, Australia -- Interspire, the global leader in e-commerce, content management and email marketing software, today announced availability of Interspire Shopping Cart 3.5. The newest version of the Interspire private label e-commerce software is the perfect option for businesses searching for a simple way to build and manage an online store with the intrinsic ability to increase conversion rates.

While there are many ecommerce software options, the problem is that they are difficult to use and are often hard to customize without help from a web designer. Retailers find that few programs offer key functionality for running an online business. For example, they do not integrate with marketing tools or provide business intelligence so that business owners can improve their offering.

"A variety of industry analysts in the ecommerce space advocate improving personalization, offering secure buying options and providing quick transactions to turn visitors into customers," said Eddie Machaalani, CEO and co-founder of Interspire. "Etailers need intuitive products that can impact conversion rates. Interspire products wrap all the features and options needed into one package so our customers can get up and running quickly and sell more."

[AJAX Magazine] Ra-ajax, New Ajax Library By The Creator Of Gaia

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:00:45 +0200

Thomas Hansen the creator of Gaia Ajax Widgets have recently announced that he is no longer with Gaiaware and already started a new ASP.NET Ajax library Ra-Ajax and a new company Ra Software AS. Thomas have quit Gaiaware due to disagreeing on the future of the company with the others, you can read his very long blog post on the current situation.

Ra-Ajax his new Ajax library is under LGPL 3 license is an ultra lightweight, slick and small Ajax library for ASP.NET and Mono which tries to completely abstract away JavaScript from the developer. It's true that the library is new, but its size zip-compressed already exceed the 7Mo ! The website provide some good samples including Event system, Effects, Dynamic Controls, Button, Checkbox, DropDownList, Image, Labels, Panel, TextBox, Accordion, Calendar, InPlaceEdit, RichEdit, Timer ... and more. More information and download at http://ra-ajax.org/.

[AJAX Magazine] Ajax Multi-Player Blackjack Game

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:26:16 +0200

AWC Blackjack is a multi-player blackjack game under development but currently available for testers to give feedback and help improving the game. The back-end game server is entirely written in PHP, and the front-end is pure AJAX. Only about 33K to download at the moment (excluding graphics).

The game doesn't use any JavaScript framework so I think there is a lot to do in addition to some graphic design work. But the demo plays great for blackjack fans. Tested with FF 1.5 and later on winxp, FF2 on Linux and IE6,7 winxp.

[PHP Magazine] The latest PHP4

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:05:38 +0000

Last month was marked by the release of two PHP versions : 5.3 alpha1 and 4.4.9. Yes it's a PHP4 again but this time it's the last one in the four Branch.

[Googling Magazine] Google Chrome, the new Browser by Google

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:47:16 +0000

Google have just announced their entrance to the browsers war to join Microsoft IE, Mozilla FF, Safari, Opera and others. Chrome the new google browser, is very simple and very fast ! Chrome uses components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others - and that's not everything because Google is willing to make it Open Source.

All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends -- all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there.

For more information and download : http://www.google.com/chrome