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Jan 2, 2006 RIA's pick up where HTML stops
Bob Tekiela, vice president of technology at Sapient Corp, reports on the various approaches to rich Internet application development:
"For data- and functionally-rich applications, as well as for graphically intensive applications, RIA technologies offer a valuable extension. They bring the best of the desktop and the best of the Web together. When designing Web sites and applications, RIA technologies should be seriously considered. In many cases, they offer the right user interface. "
Dec 5, 2005 Big Blue's Bet Pays Off
Article about IBM's open source strategy opens with mention of Laszlo Systems:
"Eighteen months ago, Laszlo Systems was a 2-year-old start-up selling proprietary software tools to build Web-based applications. Living off venture-capital money and generating very modest revenue, Laszlo Systems president and CEO Steve Ciesinski worried about the future. But then he made a bold move that paid off and captured the attention of one of the world's biggest IT vendors.
Ciesinski took his tools open source. And the product, OpenLaszlo, caught the attention of IBM, which helped to create a developer kit for the toolset and placed it into its Eclipse foundation for further dissemination. All told, downloads of the product went from 200 per month to 9,000. The story stands as an example of open source's growing acceptance and the market legitimacy that comes from having IBM's backing."
Nov 16, 2005 OnJava compares Laszlo versus Java applets
"What irritates me is that in the "applet" space that Java invented, you look at Flash(plus Flex/Laszlo) and it crushes applets in both "cool" (get me to a good user experience quickly) and "powerful" (I get data binding/SOAP/XML-RPC/etc. for free). The fact that the "powerful" side of that isn't in the core JRE immediately kills the usefulness of applets, and if anyone can show me an applet that looks anywhere near as good as the Laszlo Dashboard demo in a similar number of lines of code, I might have a coronary on the spot. 'Cool' counts for a lot, too."
Oct 14, 2005 New York Magazine praises BlaBlaList an Openlaszlo application developed by Geert Bevin
"There are other competing to-do list services on the Internet, but Bla-bla List has by far the most elegant design and coolest functionality..."
Oct 10, 2005 ComputerWorld reports on More Robust Web Apps
"EarthLink Inc., an Atlanta-based Internet service provider, is using open-source tools from Laszlo Systems Inc. to rebuild its HTML-based Web e-mail application into a rich Internet application, says John Foltz, EarthLink's product manager for e-mail and for the rich Internet application."
Sept 9, 2005 NewsForge reports on Laszlo hiring former Microsoft marketer
"Laszlo Systems, the creator and sponsor of the OpenLaszlo platform for Web application development, has hired Kent Libbey away from Microsoft to fill the position of chief marketing officer."
Sept 7, 2005 Network World reports on building sophisticated Web apps with OpenLaszlo
"The combination of OpenLaszlo, Eclipse and the IBM plug-in take building RIAs up a level. Definitely worth checking out if you are building sophisticated Web applications."
Aug 4, 2005 IT Conversations interview with David Temkin, CTO Laszlo Systems
"Before AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) had a name, there was Laszlo Systems, a software tools developer using AJAX-like methods along with with Macromedia's Flash player to deliver richer Web experiences. David Temkin tells us why he chose the Flash player as a platform. Laszlo went open source and chose IBM's Common Public License as it was flexible enough to fit their needs without curbing commercial use.
David plans to leverage rich client environments other than Flash Player, such as DHTML, Java and .Net and shares his about thoughts about Eclipse, the recent Adobe/Macromedia merger, refactoring the desktop user interface and calendar interoperability. He also explains why Flash is not an ideal platform for mobile devies and desktop applications and compares Laszlo Blog Boxes to widgets in Apple's Dashboard and Yahoo's Konfabulator. "
Aug 3, 2005 ZDNet reports on "The Perfect Storm for rich Internet applications"
"A perfect storm is brewing for new kinds of personalized interfaces and applications that meld various media types and give users far more control over what is on their dashboard. You should be able to drag and drop widgets–your e-mail, stock portfolio, contacts, business metrics, feeds, playlists, TV shows, all within a standards-based browser environment. You should be able to perform tasks and interact without having to stray far from your personalized page. Laszlo Systems, for instance, has an open source platform for creating dashboards and rich Internet applications."
July 2005 Java Developer Journal reports on the future of J2EE's Web tier
Excerpt: "As a community, we need to continue to recognize good technologies and ideas from experienced developers and Open Source projects. We need to be willing to support remote scripting with Ajax, and we need to adapt to produce rich-client experiences, like those that Laszlo offers with the Open Source Flash-rendering system. By accepting and enhancing these technologies, we can continue to use J2EE and its APIs to make our lives easier."
July 20, 2005 Information Week reports on joint IBM-Laszlo effort to bring rich client apps to Eclipse
Excerpt: "IBM said Tuesday that it and Laszlo Systems Inc. will produce an integrated development environment, IDE for Laszlo, based on Laszlo's rich-user-interface platform and contribute it to the open-source programmer's workbench."
July 20, 2005 Laszlo Systems and IBM Team to Contribute Open Source Code Aimed at Advancing Rich Internet Applications
Excerpt: "The rich-client interface, which makes it easier for users to interact with Internet applications, is coming to the Eclipse open-source programmer's workbench. IBM said Tuesday that it and Laszlo Systems Inc. will produce an integrated development environment, IDE for Laszlo, based on Laszlo's rich-user-interface platform and contribute it to the open-source programmer's workbench."
July 11, 2005 DevX article entitled "Build Rich Web Applications with OpenLaszlo" by Edmon Begoli
"OpenLaszlo, an open source framework for creating dynamic and highly interactive Web applications, makes your (and end users') life easier by using the ubiquitous Flash runtime on the client side. Find out how to get started building RIAs with OpenLaszlo."
June 29, 2005 Japan's @IT reports on rich client applications and Laszlo
Google Translation from Japanese to English
June 21, 2005 Malaysia's Star Online reports on the trend toward RIA's and OpenLaszlo
"THERE was a time when access to the Web was limited by dial-up speed, which dictated that simple, fast-loading pages were more important above anything else. However with the increasing availability of broadband Internet, this is no longer the case. This is where Rich Internet Applications (RIA) come into play..."
June 15, 2005 O'Reilly OnJava.com article on LZX markup langugage
"Laszlo, an XML platform for rich internet applications, recently went open source. This platform applies an architecture that is similar to XUL and XAML to accomplish programming on the browser side. Laszlo uses Macromedia Flash as its execution platform, resulting in unsurpassed browser compatibility without requiring Macromedia Flash executables or licensing for development."
June 1, 2005 O'Reilly XML.com notes OpenLaszlo presentation at XTech 2005
"Oliver Steele presented about Laszlo, the open source XML vocabulary and Flash interface for web applications. Like the XAML team, the Laszlo folks have put a huge amount of work into a "broadcast quality" interface experience, complete with tasteful animation and partial transparency effects. As a former commercial product, it required a licensed server; however, now that it's an open source product, it is available in a server-less profile."
April 16, 2005 Business Week covers RIAs and Earthlink's upcoming Laszlo-powered email service
"So Long to Clunky Web E-Mail: Finally, Net programs are just as supple as desktop software. The breakthrough is called rich Internet application technology"
March 22, 2005: Dev Channel reports on IBM's Eclipse IDE for Laszlo
"The ETTK-WS is a software development kit for designing, developing, and executing emerging autonomic and Web service technologies. The Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK) team bloggers bring you insights about the IDE for Laszlo, a member of the ETTK family of technologies. IDE for Laszlo sits at the intersection of such technologies as XML, Flash, JavaScript and Eclipse."
March 22, 2005: Java.net reports on RIA frameworks and Laszlo
"There's a growing restlessness in the air, and a growing movement towards rich internet applications. In this article, I'm going to give you a quick overview of Laszlo, an open-source rich internet applications development platform. First, I'll give a high level overview of what Laszlo is, and how it works. Then, I'll give you a quick tour through some of the basic features of Laszlo, and talk about what's involved in building a very application in Laszlo. And, after that, I'll talk about where it works best, and when it makes sense to use Laszlo." -- William Grosso
March 17, 2005: CNET reports on next generation Web applications
"Suddenly you've got a company like Google that has shown to a mass audience that rich Internet applications have a tremendous benefit to the end user," said David Temkin, chief technology officer of Laszlo Systems, a start-up whose Web application system underlies EarthLink's new e-mail Web site. "The difference between Google Maps and any other map site is not subtle--it's almost a different product category. And the same is true of Gmail."
March 3, 2005: Coverage on Earthlink's preview of a Laszlo-powered rich Webmail service
Information Week PC Magazine Beta News Internet Week CRN America's Network
Excerpt from Beta News: "Earthlink has embarked on a quest to reinvent Web mail for its members. In May, the ISP will launch a beta of EarthLink Enhanced Webmail, powered by Flash-based software from Laszlo, that looks and behaves like a desktop e-mail client."
Feb. 15, 2005: Internet.com reviews Laszlo Presentation Server 2.2
Excerpt: "Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are proving to be the new generation of Web-based applications. Offsetting more logic onto the client side allows for less server load and greater interaction and usability. As this space grows, so does the number of tools providers, giving Java developers something we love: freedom of choice. Laszlo Systems' Laszlo is finding itself at the core of this new development wave."
Jan. 13, 2005: MacNN covers IBM's release of IDE for Laszlo v1.1
Jan. 11, 2005: Infoworld's Jon Udell blogs Laszlo SoundBlox
While discussing this topic offline with Marc Canter, I had an idea. Could a version of the Laszlo SoundBlox, a lightweight Flash-based MP3 player, serve as a universal tool for defining and exporting the audio selections that will drive an ecosystem of media clips?
It seems like a doable and worthwhile exercise. I'd love to see the nascent OurMedia project move in this direction.
If you haven't tried putting your own stuff into SoundBlox -- I hadn't, until today -- it's very straightforward. You write a simple XML file describing playlists, tracks, artists, and albums, and you point SoundBlox at that file. The SoundBlox instance here, for example, is loaded up with my recent audio stuff. Cool!
Jan 4, 2005: Web Services Journal reports on Consuming Web Services
Excerpt:
..."A number of solutions has arisen in response to the bandwidth inefficiency and user experience problems posed by the traditional thin client model. One approach is the "user interface server" concept that connects a kind of enhanced client to a dedicated server that provides user interface data (see Figure 2). The client is often written in JavaScript, Java, Flash, or .NET, and the server is often some kind of Java, J2EE, or .NET software application.
For example, Droplets uses a Java-based client connected to their server, which lowers bandwidth usage and delivers a better user experience. Laszlo Systems provides a server that consumes Web services and other enterprise data sources and generates Flash documents, which are sent to the client. Macromedia's new Flex server operates in a similar manner. The recently announced Avalon product from Microsoft has an XML format for a user interface called XAML that specifies documents that run in the .NET client."
