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How often the simplest solution is the best one at Tech Intelligence

I recently accepted a little job of replacing a small contact script on a customer's website by a large one, with some feature requests. The customer makes use of an existing platform which accepts the use of many plugins. I initially went for a custom made form. So I went ahead and created a form in plain html and showed it to them to make sure all fields were up to [...] Read More


Consultancy Helper Tools at Tech Intelligence

When you run your own consultancy business, your base will often be in your home. But your clients are all over the place, and sometimes you have to go and talk to them. For instance, if you're aquiring, and an unknown client pops up, you often need to go over there an sweettalk them into the deal of their lifetime. So traffice is unavoidable. And you want to make a [...] Read More


SAN for the little guys at Tech Intelligence

Fujitsu Siemens Computers just started marketing a SAN that is intended for small businesses. The company calls it "My First SAN". Explaining the rationale behind the strategy, he said the firm offered "affordable" entry-level storage "solutions" via its FibreCat tape drives to small businesses that are increasingly reliant on digital content as their core business data.(TheRegister)The only thing I don't understand is that this is not a storage solution, but [...] Read More


Dynamic Ads Solution: Get interactive AJAX advertisements on your cell phone at Java Entrepreneur

Here is Dynamic Ads solution using which advertisers will be able to get in touch with their customers in a personalized manner. It is being dubbed as the first platform which ensures highly interactive AJAX advertisements on cell phones and it would also work in case of the much acclaimed Apple iPhone. You can either get Dynamic Ads solution as stand alone or part of the Universal Ad Platform. It [...] Read More


Create rich component-oriented Ajax interfaces in Java using jMaki at Java Entrepreneur

Have you heard about jMaki? It is a lightweight client/server framework aimed at developing JavaScript centric Web 2.0 applications. With it you will be able to create rich component oriented Ajax interfaces in Java. You can integrate multiple Ajax frameworks such as YUI and Dojo, standardize Ajax component interfaces and undertake mash ups with its easily configurable proxy server. It will be available along with the Sun Java Application Platform [...] Read More