Mozilla has just released a web based programmer’s editor that runs entirely in your browser. It is aptly named Bespin, because it runs entirely in the cloud. Skeptics beware, this has the potential to blow your mind. A quick review of the screencast shows of the power and possibilities that a web based editor is strategically poised to execute. Collaborative editing. Collaborative code review. Plugins. Borrowing someone else’s setup of plugins. A developer’s mind quickly pants with excitement for this to move from alpha to beta as soon as possible. Go Dion!
Posts Tagged ‘RIA’
Bespin, the Mozilla Web Based Editor
February 12th, 2009SwingX No Longer Funded
October 31st, 2008Well, it looks like Swing continues to be a technology that has matured enough to be left out to pasture. In addition to the Swing team departures at Sun, the most recent related event is that SwingX, one of my favorite libraries, has stopped being funded. I don’t see this as a huge problem, as most applications are heading to the web nowadays unless they have a hugely compelling reason to be on the desktop (Development IDEs, CAD, Drawing, Graphics apps). JavaFX continues to be the also-ran in the RIA lineup against Flex (forefront) and Silverlight (2nd place).