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Apache Derby 10.5.1.1 Feature Release

May 3rd, 2009 Jigish Thakar No comments

Apache Derby is a sub-project of the Apache DB project. Derby is a pure Java relational database engine which conforms to the ISO/ANSI SQL and JDBC standards. Derby aims to be easy for developers and end-users to work with.

Derby 10.5.1.1 can be obtained from the Derby download site:
http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html. Read more…

EXT Core 3.0 Beta: a cross-browser Javascript API Library

April 26th, 2009 Jigish Thakar No comments

EXT produces Web 2.0 styled content all within your browser. Now comes EXT Core 3.0 Beta, a subset of the soon to be released EXT 3.0.

The developers of EXT 3.0 have gone through the code, stripping out everything except for the core functionality, optimised the code and gzipped it to bring it down to a modest 25kb in size. They have also changed the licensing to use the MIT License (which drew some ire from some developers but was generally accepted by the majority).

Some of the features of EXT Core 3.0 are:

  • DOM manipulation and traversal
  • CSS management
  • Event handling
  • Dimensions and Sizing
  • AJAX and JSON Support
  • Animations
  • Classical Inheritance Class System
  • Observable Class
  • Markup generation and Templating
  • Timed code execution
  • URL encoding and decoding

For more information: EXT Core 3.0 Beta

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SEO and SEM: Two Names for the Same Thing?

February 21st, 2009 Jigish Thakar No comments

By most people’s standards, the internet is still very young. New technologies and developments in existing technologies are appearing at an extraordinary rate. As technologies change, so does the terminology used to describe them.

I worked for three years as a webmaster. Ask a dozen people to define that term, and you’ll get a lot of different answers. A webmaster may be the leader of a large team, including developers, writers, marketers, designers, usability experts, technical support people, and yes, search engine optimizers. Or s/he may perform all or some of those duties alone.

The same is true for search engine optimization. For many people, the term is a new one, and they have no idea what it is an SEO does. To others, SEO is synonymous with SEM — search engine marketing. In my opinion, there is a big difference between the two.
Search Engine Marketing

I see SEM as a rather broad term. It’s everything that can be done to utilize the technology of search engines with the goal of promoting a web site and increasing its traffic, its “stickiness,” and, in the case of sites that promote a business (or are a business), increase profits. SEO, therefore, would be a subset of SEM.

Aspects of search engine marketing which I would consider to be outside the realm of search engine optimization include the following:

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