Coach Wei

This Yahoo internal document by Brad Garlinghouse (a Yahoo senior vice president) is a tremendous read. Brad started by stating his love for Yahoo, for example: I proudly bleed purple and, yellow everyday! And like so many people here, I love this company Then he bluntly outlin... (more)

The industry has been talking about 'open source Java' for many years and it finally happened. To be honest, I have not been enthusiastic about open sourcing Java. First of all, what does 'open source Java' mean? Java source code has been available for many years. What is the add... (more)

Back four years ago (2002), a good friend who works at Microsoft told me confidentially that Microsoft is working on something called "XAML". "Very similar to Nexaweb - watch out", he said. To the contrary, I was actually thrilled. Regardless of what it means from a competitive p... (more)

Coach Wei's Blog What is Internet Messaging Bus? Internet Messaging Bus is an enhanced web communication layer built on top of HTTP that supports two-way, bi-directional communications as well as reliable messaging. We all know HTTP, the communication layer of Web 1.0. Recently, ... (more)

Coach Wei's Blog OpenAjax Alliance had its 2nd face to face meeting on Oct 5th and 6th at Sun Microsystem’s office in Santa Clara, CA after the AjaxWorld Conference. While paying close attention to confidentiality concerns, I feel comfortable sharing some of my thoughts an... (more)

At the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo and OpenAjax Alliance back to back meetings in Santa Clara, CA this week, it has been hard not to think about the developer community and how Web 2.0 is impacting it today. Web development can be roughly divided into two camps: Website developmen... (more)

Web 2.0 technologies promise to turn the Internet into a true application platform, featuring robust client-side logic and rich interfaces that put users back in control of application flow. For the enterprise IT community, achieving the aims of Web 2.0 requires looking beyond th... (more)

This article originally appeared in XML-Journal on March 10, 2004 XML is a simple, flexible text format initially designed for large-scale electronic publishing. It is flexible, open, and human-readable, and can be learned easily. XML can also be generated, parsed, analyzed, and t... (more)

Coach Wei (pictured), International Advisory Board member of Social Computing Magazine, writes: I was in Tokyo during the week of September 18th attending the 21st ProWise Forum, a business oriented information technology conference. Still feeling residual heat from the $900M Goo... (more)

I am excited that OpenAjax Alliance is officially open now. Over the last months months, we have worked very hard and have made some incredible progress, depsite the heterogeneous nature of many different members representing different viewpoints. One person that definitely deser... (more)

Enterprise Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are the next evolution of business application development. There are four different approaches to RIA development - AJAX, Java, Flash, and .NET - and many different RIA solutions available today. This article answers the following que... (more)

My readers probably know that I am excited about Web 2.0 and have been a champion for it for many years. Six years ago, I started a company (Nexaweb) providing software for building Enterprise Web 2.0 solutions because I was convinced that Web 1.0 has a lot of limitations and the... (more)

The AJAX model dominates headlines, but developing with JavaScript requires considerable developer skills, especially when migrating existing client/server applications to the Web. A new wave of software infrastructure providers is leveraging Java expertise to create enterprise-c... (more)

In my previous post, "Every Organization Needs a Web 2.0 Story" , I outlined some of the business reasons why Web 2.0 is important for organizations today. I also promised to further explain what exactly Web 2.0 can do for enterprises in future posts. This morning I had the pleas... (more)

The shifting enterprise software market (business model, M&A landscape, investment, sales and marketing strategies, etc) is a subject that I studied quite a lot over the last few years. One of the angles that I use is to study the behavior of the venture capital community. Quite... (more)

Duh! Isn’t it obvious that every organization should have a Web 2.0 story? I know it is obvious to us techies. But the more I talk to the business community (including technology leaders), the more I realize that Web 2.0 is not obvious to them at all. A lot of people in the... (more)

Two Key Challenges for Ajax Adoption that We Have Ignored by coachwei on Tue 11 Jul 2006 12:52 PM EDT  |  Permanent Link  |  Cosmos There are some fairly big issues with Ajax and I am puzzled. I think the Ajax community need to pay more attention here in order for Ajax to be really ... (more)

Jonathan Schwartz Doesn't Matter? by coachwei on Fri 30 Jun 2006 10:30 AM EDT  |  Permanent Link  |  Cosmos BusinessWeek 2.0 recently awarded Jonathan Schwartz one of the "Ten People Who Don't Matter". Schwartz wrote a response in his blog, expressing his gratitude for being honore... (more)

Apache XAP - The New Approach to Ajax (1) XAP is up and running at Apache (under Apache Incubator)... It's initial website is at: http://incubator.apache.org/xap. For those who are really brave, feel free to participate xap-dev@incubator.apache.org for discussions / suggestions / ... (more)

Enterprise Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are the next evolution of business application development. There are four different approaches to RIA development - AJAX, Java, Flash, and .NET - and many different RIA solutions available today. This article answers the following que... (more)