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    Executive Briefing: Ruby on Rails

    30 January, 2006 (06:00) | Executive Briefings, Guest Bloggers, Technology | By: Derek Haynes

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    According to Derek Haynes of Atlanta-based Highgroove Studios, CIOs & CTOs that don’t investigate Ruby on Rails could be missing out on the holy grail of web application development - faster development, cheaper development, and vastly more usable applications. As our guest blogger this week, Derek provides a nice executive overview into this fascinating technology platform.

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    AJAX Proof of Concept

    2 January, 2006 (15:15) | Technology | By: Scott Burkett

    I came across a nifty site today in my morning travels. Joel Parrish, a young high school student in southern California, has posted an interesting demo/proof of concept that uses AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) to provide a real time language translator. His demo with contextual advertisements really drives the point home. This is a great demonstration of the power of AJAX.

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